Welcome to Season 3, "Revenge”, exploring the many and varied motivations for Women to seek revenge in horror.

This season, we’ll be looking at how revenge manifests, the different forms it takes, and importantly, we’ll be questioning why there’s been a tendency to gender this concept.

In this episode, we are discussing Play Misty for Me (1971) and Fatal Attraction (1987), two films that helped define the "erotic thriller" subgenre and sparked a moral panic around female rage. We'll be delving into the tropes of the spurned lover and the "bunny boiler" to understand what these films reveal about societal anxieties surrounding female independence, desire, and retribution.

So, grab your headphones and maybe lock your doors, because things are about to get unhinged!

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Editing and theme music by Adam Hynes @adamnarrows

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