Saint Maud
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate features editor Jeffrey Bloomer and New York Times correspondent Ruth Graham to spoil Saint Maud, the feature film debut from writer and director Rose Glass.
In this extremely eerie horror film, we meet Maud, (played by Morfydd Clark) a reclusive young nurse charged with the hospice care of Amanda, (Jennifer Ehle) a former dancer who has been diagnosed with cancer. At first, they find commonality in their religious beliefs. But will Maud’s newfound faith guide her and Amanda toward a path of healing? Or is something more sinister at play?
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Hosts
Dana Stevens is a movie critic at Slate.
Jeffrey Bloomer is Slate’s features editor.
Ruth Graham is a New York Times correspondent.
You can read Jeffrey Bloomer’s review here
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.9 | I see this. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent Freed is people. |
| 0:13.9 | No. |
| 0:15.4 | I am the father. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh. |
| 0:19.9 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:25.4 | You get it! |
| 0:27.6 | You blew it up! |
| 0:29.3 | Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:32.7 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Spoiler Special podcast. |
| 0:35.7 | Today, we're going to be talking about the new horror movie St. Maud. And joining me to talk about that movie are senior editor Jeff Blumer. Hi, Jeffrey. Hello. And on the phone with us or by Skype from New Hampshire, for the first time that I've ever spoiled with you, Ruth, is Slate staff writer Ruth Graham. Hello. Hello. I'm so happy to be here. I'm a frequent listener, so I'm excited to get in on the spoiling action. Oh, yeah. And I think this is a perfect first movie for you to spoil, because I think of you, among other things, as Slate's religion correspondent, right? I mean, you have written quite a bit and reported quite a bit about issues of religion, faith, things that are crucial to understanding or at least being mystified by St. Maude. |
| 1:15.1 | Okay, as usual, I'm going to go around the table real quick and just ask if you guys liked or not, so we know what position we're all arguing from. |
| 1:21.1 | Personally, I loved this movie. |
| 1:22.8 | I was really blown away, particularly knowing that it's the first film of this 30-year-old filmmaker, Rose Glass. |
| 1:28.8 | What about you, Jeff? I liked the movie quite a bit as well. I found it even as someone who |
| 1:33.2 | sort of eagerly consumes movies like this, like especially hardcore. Like, I was kind of, it is a |
| 1:39.0 | literally scorched Earth movie. And I have some reservations about it, a little, maybe a little bit more than you, but I think it is an extremely impressive debut and definitely the first notable horror movie of the year. And you are a horror connoisseur? Yes. Okay, that's good to know. That may come up later in the conversation as well, because I think in talking about this movie and in letting people decide whether or not to see it, we should give some glimpse of, you know, how much excruciation they're going to have to go through horror-wise. |
| 2:06.2 | Ruth, what about you? |
| 2:07.4 | I liked it a lot. I'm excited to see what else this director does. I think I didn't quite love it as much as you or maybe Jeff. We can get into that. But I thought it was like a lot of |
| 2:19.4 | dread, incredible atmosphere, great performances, but it didn't quite surprise me. It didn't |
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