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A bonus exclusive interview with Julia Ducournau (Palme D'Or winning writer/director of Raw, Titane) about her new film Alpha, out in UK cinemas now. Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya *** Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

After a short-ish break we return with author Lucy Rose to talk about two screenlife horrors: Unfriend (2014) and Searching (2018), starring everyone's favourite John Cho. New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Film critic and host of The Losers' Club and The Lady Killers podcast, Jenn Adams, returns to talk about the Frankenstein movie of the 2010s: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014). New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

The Independent's Chief Film Critic Clarisse Loughrey comes onboard the Alien space ship to mount a passionate defense of the Alien prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), and argue that it's the best adaptation of the Frankenstein myth.  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Horror scholar, writer and co-host of This Ends at Prom joins Anna to look at ourselves in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, covering the series themes and deep-diving into some iconic episodes like "San Junipero", "The National Anthem" and "USS Callister".  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Friend of the show, podcaster Steph McKenna joins Anna to discuss two cornerstone J-horrors: the internet ghosts of Pulse (2001) and the cursed voicemail of One Missed Call (2003). New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Friend of the show Isaura Barbé-Brown and Anna clock in at the Umbrella Corporation to discuss the first Resident Evil (2002) and how it kickstarted the billion-dollar franchise starring Milla Jovovich.  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

This week, we’re stripping it all back (literally) with a look at two very different takes on invisibility, male ego, and coercion: Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man and Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, both reimagining H.G.Wells' classic tale of a mad scientist who discovers invisibility and then comes to regret it. Joining a very sick Anna is friend of the show Ruby McGuigan.  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

 The early 2000s were many things: 9/11, camera phones, government surveillance, MSN Messenger, low-rise jeans, Big Brother and the most extra horror films you can think of. Author Kirsty Logan joins the podcast to go over what makes this moment in horror history so unique, by looking at a wave of horror films from the early 2000s that channelled the paranoia and confusion of the emerging digital age: My Little Eye (2002), The Collingswood Story (2002), Feardotcom (2002).  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

As Charli XCX has declared: it's Cronenberg Summer. With his new film The Shrouds out in UK cinemas, we revisit two quintessential techno-body horror films from the Canadian master David Cronenberg. Joining Anna is the critic and author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials Violet Lucca.  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Plug into The Matrix with Anna and guest Becky Darke to discuss Y2K paranoia, long leather coats, the game-changing action scenes, and how hot everyone is in this film.  Read Emily St. James' excellent piece on The Matrix as a trans allegory.  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Anime fan and Dread Central's Editor-in-Chief MaryBeth McAndrews pops in to educate Anna on two masterpieces of the genre: Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Perfect Blue (1997). Read MaryBeth's piece about how Perfect Blue predicted fan culture for Polygon. New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

Blumhouse Games Creative Lead and friend of the pod Louise Blain takes the time to discuss her foundational videotape horror, The Ring (2002) and the original Ring (1998). New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

The Ladykillers' Jenn Addams pop by to talk about a double bill of cyberpunk cult classics: Ghost in the Machine (1993) and Virtuosity (1995).  New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster

FANGORIA's Amber T joins Anna for an excellent chat about two questionable 90s relics: The Lawnmower Man (1992) and Brainscan (1994). New episode every Friday. Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering. Produced and presented by Anna BogutskayaResearch Assistant: Frankie Wakefield *** Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio *** The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens. → Support us on Patreon for bonus content. → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram. → Read Feeding the Monster