In this episode, we discuss two films about close female friendships between teenage girls — that may tip into sapphic love — and how they are affected when the girls are possessed by the patriarchy: Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (2007) and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (2009).
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Ep. 96: Water Lilies and Jennifer’s Body: Girlhood and compulsory heterosexuality
In this episode, we discuss two films about close female friendships between teenage girls — that may tip into sapphic love — and how they are affected when the girls are possessed by the patriarchy: Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (2007) and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (2009).
Ep. 80: The Babadook and Prevenge: Motherhood in horror
On this podcast episode, we revisit two horror films about motherhood, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and Alice Lowe’s Prevenge.
Ep. 39: Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Blood Quantum
This episode discusses Jeff Barnaby’s new Indigenous zombie film, Blood Quantum in conversation with his modern classic, Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
Ep. 35: The Invisible Man and Unsane
Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man re-imagines the Universal Monsters character as a stalker. The theme reminded us of one of Seventh Row’s favourite films, Stephen Soderbergh’s Unsane (2018), so we had to discuss them in conversation with each other.
Ep. 31: Women in Horror Month 2020
For Women in Horror month, Executive Editor Orla Smith speaks to four women horror critics about why they love the genre and their recent favourite horror films.