Episode 83. Follow the Bouncing Ball: The Changeling (1980)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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By reminding us of the past, ghosts can shape our future, revealing hidden truths, histories and uncertainties that we’re often too scared to acknowledge. Grief and terror become inextricably intertwined in Peter Medak’s The Changeling, and Andrea and Alex untangle the metaphors, traumas and unspoken realities that have made this film a Canadian horror classic. […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror
0:55.6	Podcasting from the Digital and Horrid Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with
1:01.1	Andrea Cebassade.
1:02.6	And we are back for the month of April.
1:06.3	It is a new month.
1:08.2	It is a very different month from the last time we spoke to you.
1:12.1	And so we are recording this episode in a new way we are on
1:16.0	two separate campuses so to speak we are social distancing and yeah yeah
1:22.1	basically since the last episode on German expressionism, Corona and COVID-19 has become a really big factor in all of our lives.
1:32.0	And so we are always determined to bring you the show and we're here.
1:36.7	It's just going to be a little different for a little while.
1:39.0	Yeah, I hope it's okay to listen to I don't know how much I like this.
1:42.4	I don't love not being able to like
1:44.3	touch you like all the time that I do in recording like I just want to like paw you
1:48.7	but I get to see your pretty face over Zoom we're recording with voice memo apps. We're doing, you know, I think some kind of fancy stuff to hopefully make this sound as good as it can. We are thinking about all of you, our listeners. We hope you are doing well. We hope you're staying healthy and saying if
2:04.6	that's possible and if you're an essential employee and thank you for everything
2:08.9	that you're doing and you guys fucking rock and we all owe you huge after all of this speaking of debts to be
2:16.7	paid interesting segue you. We may be in a pandemic but I can still you know pivot a conversation but today we are
2:26.6	here to talk about a 1980 ghost horror classic Peter medics the change Change Lane. This is such an interesting film. It has so much going on in it. It's so iconic. I think some of the imagery in this film is used all of the time in horror journalism and books
2:44.9	and things like that so even if you hadn't seen it before this episode you're
2:48.2	probably familiar with quite a bit of it. Yeah it's it's funny we were texting a little bit in doing our research on this and
2:55.5	I knew I had seen the change thing I knew I'd seen it long ago and many times and then I was like how do I not
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