Episode 67. Where is my mind: The Stepford Wives (1975) and Get Out (2017)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 124 minutes

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This month, Andrea and Alex tackle two films whose hearts lie in the darkest, most secret parts of suburban utopia. In Bryan Forbes’ The Stepford Wives and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, we follow protagonists who are socialized to make room for the privileged and examine what happens when they strike back. REQUIRED READING The Stepford […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, The Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror
0:57.1	Podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea
1:01.5	Su Busatti and we'll just die if we don't do this podcast.
1:07.0	It's nice to be back in the vault isn't it?
1:09.5	It is.
1:10.5	Salem was great but we are so happy to be home and this was an episode I feel like
1:18.1	we've been kind of wanting to do for a while I've always really wanted to talk
1:21.3	about the Stepford Wives. Yeah I've always wanted to see it.
1:23.9	Yes, that blew my mind that you've never seen it.
1:26.9	So we'll talk about that shortly.
1:28.5	And then, you know, I know we kind of said we didn't want to do Get Out when it came out even though we love the film it was both of our favorite films last year
1:37.6	But you know in the time and the space that has existed since it came out, you know, when I went back to kind of think about like, oh, what can I do to get Stepford Wives on the show?
1:49.0	I just didn't feel like there was another film that spoke so well to it that
1:54.9	complimented it so well and stood on its own.
1:57.3	Absolutely I absolutely agree with that these films have a lot in common but
2:01.4	very different reception stories that I'm really excited to talk about and I'm here for it but
2:07.1	But are you sure you're you're up to this? I feel like you haven't been the same since you went on that weekend getaway with Danny.
2:14.3	No, no, I've just, you know what, Andrea, I've just been taking care of myself a bit more.
2:18.8	Yeah.
2:19.8	Because you look a little different.
2:21.8	No, it's just, you you know it's this padded bra.
2:23.8	It's just you know Danny treated me to it and yeah we just had the most wonderful time
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