In this special Halloween episode, I am joined by author Jessica Raney to discuss the quality and long-lasting influence of two of Universal Studio’s classic monster movies - The Invisible Man from 1933 and The Wolf Man from 1941.
Emmanuelle Perryman (that’s me) is the host and producer of The Reel Woman: A podcast about all things cinematic. I earned a degree in Cinema Studies from The City College of New York and have spent the last 20 years working in a variety of film-related jobs in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit. I’ve taught film to both adults and school-age children, interned at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals as well as in the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Over the years I have gained many friends and acquaintances who are involved, in various ways, in film, music, fashion, academia, and politics. I’am thrilled now to have them join me as guests on my podcast to discuss our shared love of movies and talk about the ones that have inspired and influenced them.
In this episode, I talk with author Jessica Raney about John Fowles’ book The Collector and Thomas Harris’ book The Silence of the Lambs. We also get into both of their film adaptations - William Wyler’s The Collector and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. We discuss the serial killers at the center of each story, their victims…and what the deal is with all those butterflies.
My, now annual, Halloween episode of season two looks at the connection between comedy and horror. My guest Jason Zumwalt and I talk about both classic and contemporary comedy/horror films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Cabin in the Woods (2012) and Get Out (2017). Jason is a screenwriter who works in both the comedy and horror genres.
Dr. Victoria Amador is a British and American Gothic film and literature scholar, who has published numerous articles on the gothic in film and literature. She is the author of The Gothic Portal: An Online Resource for Academics and Aficionados of Gothic Cultural Productions From 1976-2008. In this episode, we discuss the character of the female vampire in cinema. Our focus is on four female-centric vampire films. Dracula's Daughter (1936), The Vampire Lovers (1970), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).