Exploring the intersection between girlhood and horror cinema.
🎀 Episode 2 - Beneath the Veil, Immaculate (2024) and the Girlhood and Nunsploitation Horror
In episode 2 of The Girl Horror Podcast, we will be looking at Immaculate (2024) and the history of nunsploitation horror cinema. Below, you will find some resources and extra reading to get yourself in the mood. Stream now on YouTube below or on your preferred podcast platform.
Suggested reading
Film Fatale: Celluloid Sisters, Theological Final Girls and the Year of the Nun
Polyester
How Nuns Became the Center of Horror's Hottest Subgenre
Collider
10 great nunsploitation films
British Film Institute (BFI)
Suggested watchlist
Immaculate (2024)
A GBM favourite, exploring mental illness and obsessive paranoia, what it means to do bad when you think you're doing good.
Benedetta (2021)
Recommended watch, addresses sexual repression and expression, focusing on the temptation of the forbidden fruit.
St Maud (2019)
The focus of episode two of The Girl Horror Podcast, exploring bodily autonomy and agency. A must watch for this episode.
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