Final Girls Club
Survival guide meets feminist horror analysis, brought to you by Emily and Sammy of the It's Become a Whole Thing podcast. They're here to talk about surviving the monsters of everyday life through a feminist breakdown of horror movies, literature and pop culture tropes. It's a look at horror tropes for the girls, gays and theys from myths and fairy tales to horror movies. Themes include: Hagsploitation, Pussy Panic, Final Girls, Creepy Kids, Women vs Women, Family, Killer Robots, Women as hunted/hunter, Mental Illness, the Devil, Possession, theory, Folk Horror, Toxic Masculinity, Dystopias, Monsters, Myths, Sex Panic, Vampires, Hauntings, The Woods, Christmas, Racism, Fascism, Drugs, Trauma, Fairy Tales.
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Sammy and Emily are joined by Amber Dean, author of the psychological horror novel Hysterical, to discuss the 1992 classic Single White Female.
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Cat Fight month continues with a look at 1995's Showgirls starring Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone. We untwist this twisted, dark, camp look at the melding of glitz and glamour with exploitation.
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We're back for a revisit of 2008's horror-comedy, Jennifer's Body. It was huge bomb at the time and hated by critics. But the film, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, starring has stood the test of time and risen to the top as a slow burn queer coded cult classic.
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From the archives of our Patreon vault from 2023, before Final Girls Club was birthed into the world. It’s our review of Pearl, starring Mia Goth! For 300+ more episodes including weekly pop culture hot topics, show and album reviews, check us out on patreon.com/itsbecomeawholething
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What happens when holiday cheer collapses under resentment, grief, and unmet expectations. We break down Krampus as a dark fairy tale about family, shame, and punishment, looking how the film turns Christmas tradition into a horror story about what happens when kindness and connection disappear.
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It wouldn't be Family Is Hell Month without Ari Aster's Hereditary. We look at the film from an academic, analytical and personal lens from Toni Collette's genius to the metaphors for generational trauma passed down. This episode is brought to you by Paimon.
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Continuing Family Is Hell Month with Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a domestic horror masterpiece where addiction, resentment, and generational violence turn a winter isolation job into the world’s worst family retreat. We break down the plot, the psychology of the Torrances, and why the Overlook Hotel feels less like a haunting and more like an extension of the family’s curse.
Welcome to 'Family is Hell' month. No better way to kick off this month's trope with an analysis of 2015's The Witch. A Puritan family unravels in the wilderness as grief, paranoia, and patriarchal terror turns home into hell. Beyond the movie, we look at the history of witchcraft and the roots of puritanical religious culture.
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For Final Girl month, we're diving into Ready or Not (2019). It's a blood-soaked, dark horror-comedy where a new bride, Samara Weaving, becomes the ultimate Final Girl. We break down the full plot, the film’s class-war satire, cursed family traditions. We explore class consciousness, how the movie skewers the ultra rich and evolves Final Girl tropes.
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This week we’re diving into Scream (1996), the genre-defining slasher that mixed gore with postmodern humor and created a new rulebook for horror. From Casey Becker’s devastating opening to Sidney Prescott navigating survival, we explore how Scream turns teen girl vulnerability into power and why its commentary on sexuality, violence, technology, and media obsession still feels sharp today.
The hosts dive into 1997 horror film 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.' They discuss the film's plot, its cultural impact, and its place in the Final Girl patheon.
They also delve into the movie's trope of the 'final girl,' and offer insights on how the film reflects the social anxieties of its time.
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Final Girls Club revisits John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the low-budget indie that carved the path for modern slasher cinema. We break down how this film gave us both the unstoppable masked boogeyman and the original Final Girl: Laurie Strode.
Inspired by Carol J. Clover’s Men, Women, and Chain Saws, we trace the birth of the “Final Girl” and what makes her endure, her awareness, resilience, and sharp instincts, and how each of...
Final Girls Club explores how Hollywood turns aging women into horror villains through Death Becomes Her (1992), the cult-favorite dark comedy starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis.This feminist analysis of the hag archetype, plastic surgery culture, and female rivalry spotlights the film’s camp satire of eternal youth, beauty standards, and the cosmetic procedures that promise ‘forever flawless’ womanhood. By examin...
Emily and Sammy take on 2024's "The Substance," exploring the grotesque, hilarious, and haunting sides of beauty, aging, and self-destruction, perfectly depicted by its stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. From body horror to pop culture, they unpack what it means to chase perfection, and the real cost of chasing the idea of youth.
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As part of their 'Hag Month' series, hosts Emily and Sammy discuss the portrayal of child star trauma, sibling rivalry, and the societal expectations placed on women through the 1962 psychological horror thriller 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'. They dive into the cultural and historical context of the 1960s, the shift in horror from monsters to psychological themes, and the symbolism of the decaying mansion and isolated characte...
Emily and Sammy return to unpack the hag across myth and fairy tales. They analyze the evil witch from Snow White, the story of Hansel & Gretel, Baba Yaga, the Greek Furies and Hecate, Ursula and Andersen’s Little Mermaid, Lilith, and Morgan Le Fay. In short, they examine how patriarchy recasts aging or independent women as monsters.
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Why are the most terrifying concepts that horror movie directors can come up with are often older women? We're breaking down the concept of hagsploitation, a horror genre that examines the campy and grotesque horror of aging women, and the terrifying lengths they’ll go to take back what they’ve lost. We explore the origins of this trope and the way it tugs on the fears that are imposed on women.
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Welcome to our brand new podcast, Final Girls Club, by the hosts of It's Become a Whole Thing podcast, Emily Rose and Sammy P. Join us in breaking down the horrors of everyday life through tropes found in horror movies, literature and pop culture. Examining everything from the concept of a hag to family trauma to being the final girl, emerging from a pile of rubble to victoriously survive.
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