SLASHERS Pt 4: Black Christmas (1974) Feat. Mary Wild
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2017
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
This week Mike is joined by Rhianna Dhillon to explore two criminally underrated early 70s slasher movies...Black Christmas (1974) and Alice, Sweet Alice (1976). Both movies deal with teenage problems and adolescence discuss the awkwardness of puberty, sex education and bodily fluids. Mike also sits down with Freudian Cinephile Mary Wild who discusses horror cinema from a psycho-analytic perspective.
Music by Jack Whitney
Jack is a musician and sound engineer. He is on Twitter (@Jack_Whitney)
Rhianna Dhillon is a film critic, journalist, presenter and broadcaster. She hosts the Radio 4 Seriously podcast:(https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/seriously/id134091051?mt=2) She can be found on Twitter (@RhiannaDhillon)
and also presents Back Row Podcast with Mike (https://backrowpodcast.net)
Mary Wild is a psycho-analytic scholar and freudian cinephile. Mary runs a series of lectures and courses called Projections and has an upcoming 6 week course on Women in Horror Films at the Freud Museum. All details of the course can be found here: https://www.freud.org.uk/events/76988/projections-psychoanalytic-investigation-of-women-in-horror-films/
Mary is also on Twitter (@psycstar) and has a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zqftkwnUEyNnRnSZHShEA)
Thanks for listening, tune in next week for our Halloween special!
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Dir: Alred Sole
Courtesy of Harristown Funding
Black Christmas (1974)
Dir: Bob Clark
Courtesy of Film Funding Ltd of Canada / Vision IV / Canadian Film Development Corporation / Famous Players / August Films
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| 0:00.0 | The Adolescence can be a very difficult time. Your body is doing strange unexpected things. |
| 0:26.0 | Bodily fluids are emerging from places they don't usually emerge. |
| 0:30.0 | Hormones can make you unreasonable, emotional, even aggressive, and you start |
| 0:35.4 | becoming curious about this weird thing that all adults seem to partake in called |
| 0:39.3 | sex. Teenage years and adolescents play a huge role in all aspects of the horror genre for obvious |
| 0:46.6 | reasons. They're often pretty horrific, but they're particularly important in the slasher genre. |
| 0:53.0 | For most people, the slasher genre is synonymous |
| 0:55.8 | with misbehaving teenagers, drinking, doing drugs, |
| 0:58.8 | and having sex. |
| 1:00.2 | But whilst psycho and peeping Tom |
| 1:01.9 | did introduce the idea of the psychopathic knife-wielding murderer, |
| 1:05.7 | and Jalo added gore and extravagant death scenes into the mix, neither had really focused on young people. |
| 1:13.0 | Tonight we're going to discuss two movies that put |
| 1:16.0 | adolescents and teenage problems front and center |
| 1:19.0 | that would influence all slashes for decades to come. |
| 1:24.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the slasher |
| 1:28.0 | and look at two particularly underrated gems, |
| 1:31.8 | Alfred Souls Alice Sweet Alice, and Bob Clark's gone to hunting, |
| 1:47.0 | daddy's gone a hunting, |
| 1:50.0 | gone to fetch a rabbit skin to rabbit baby. |
| 1:58.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 2:00.2 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
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