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Faculty of Horror

Episode 86: Summer of Plague Pt 3. Nature Is Healing: Mimic (1997) and The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Our Summer of Plague wraps up with a look at potential cures and a post-human reality. Between Guillermo del Toro’s Frankensteinian bugs and a post-apocalyptic UK, the end of the world may be closer (and more necessary) than we think. The Fack Dispatch – Subscribe to our monthly newsletter! Become a Patron! REQUIRED […]

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0:00.0

The Oh, Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror

0:56.3

Podcasting from the horror halls of academia I'm Alex West with Andrea

1:00.8

Subasati and we're back It's still a pandemic.

1:04.0

Yeah. Civil rights are still being challenged and people are still fighting back.

1:08.0

And Faculty of Horror is back.

1:10.0

We're back. We're back in the vault.

1:12.0

Yes. It's nice. Thanks for bearing with us. We did the best we could. You know, given the choice between postponing the podcast or whatnot, doing it remotely was the right decision, but I'm happy you're back. And I'm happy to be back and I'm happy to be back in the vault.

1:25.0

I'm happy we're in each other's bubbles so we can do this safely.

1:28.0

And I'm happy to be wrapping up our summer of plague.

1:34.3

I'll be happy to be wrapping up this summer.

1:36.2

Yes.

1:37.2

Yes.

1:38.2

I never thought I'd say that.

1:39.2

It's end of July and I'm done.

1:41.0

I'm over it.

1:42.0

And so in this summer of plague we have tackled outbreak. We have tackled lockdown and now we're going to talk about cures or

1:55.0

the resolutions, the resolutions, evolutions, things that kind of happen

1:58.0

that dictate a potential new way of life.

2:01.0

Yes.

2:02.0

And these are two films that are going to talk about this situation in really, really different

2:06.9

ways.

2:07.9

And I know both films gave me a lot of food for thought and I have many feelings about these resolutions because it's

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