The Final Girls

Welcome to Dead By Dawn, a limited podcast series exploring the depth of the Evil Dead franchise, from the original cult movie to the upcoming Evil Dead Rise.   

Hosted by horror fans and podcasters Mike Muncer, Anna Bogutskaya and Chris Hewitt

Listen and subscribe to Dead By Dawn: An Evil Dead Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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Watch Evil Dead Rise in cinemas from 21 April 2023 

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Dead By Dawn: An Evil Dead Podcast is supported by Studiocanal 

Hosts: Mike Muncer, Anna Bogutskaya and Studiocanal  
Artwork Design: Mike Lee-Graham

Producers: Mike Muncer and Anna Bogutskaya

Editor: Mike Muncer

Anna and The Final Girls' contributors pick their favourite horror films of the year, presented in no particular order: 

00:01:33 Sorcha Ní Fhlainn on The Black Phone
00:06:40 Becky Darke on Bodies Bodies Bodies
00:09:33 Steph McKenna on Bones and All
00:12:56 Louise Blain on Deadstream
00:16:58 Leila Latif on Nope
00:23:54 Clarisse Loughrey on Crimes of the Future
00:29:53 Jordan Crucciola on X
00:36:40 Isaura Barbé-Brown on Barbarian
00:41:07 Mary Wild on Speak No Evil
00:43:41 Anna Bogutskaya on Huesera

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

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An exclusive spoiler-free interview with the brilliant writer-director Nikyatu Jusu about her Sundance award-winning horror film Nanny, and the star of the film, Anna Diop. 

Watch Nanny on Amazon Prime.

A full review of Nanny can be found on our Patreon.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

The final episode in our mini-series dedicated to the influential book by Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women, is an interview with the author herself. This is a recording from the conversation we had during Matchbox Cine's Weird Weekend, in Glasgow.  

→ Watch all the films featured in the book HERE.

→ Buy the expanded edition of House of Psychotic Women HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Prince of Darkness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

A new mini-series dedicated to the influential book by Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women. Filmmaker Alice Lowe joins Anna to go into her take on Heavenly Creatures, the female imagination, and her own ambitions as a filmmaker. 

→ Watch all the films featured in the book HERE.

→ Buy the expanded edition of House of Psychotic Women HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Prince of Darkness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

A new mini-series dedicated to the influential book by Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women. Filmmakers Kane Senes and Hannah Barlow, co-directors of Sissy,  join Anna to discuss the lasting impact of Carrie, its influence Sissy and how they discovered their film was featured in the book.

→ Watch all the films featured in the book HERE.

→ Buy the expanded edition of House of Psychotic Women HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Prince of Darkness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

A deep dive review of the new reimagining of Hellraiser, directed by David Bruckner. Becky Darke joins Anna for a furious review demanding more bums. Beware: spoilers from the very beginning of the chat.

Hellraiser is available to watch on Amazon Prime.

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

A new mini-series dedicated to the influential book by Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women. Filmmaker Deborah Haywood (Pin Cushion), joins Anna to discuss the grotesquerie of David Cronenberg's The Brood, why it stayed with her, and the body horror of motherhood.

→ Watch all the films featured in the book HERE.

→ Buy the expanded edition of House of Psychotic Women HERE.

→ Attend the Matchbox Cine UK-wide tour HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

***

Music: "Prince of Darkness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

A new mini-series dedicated to the influential book by Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women. Filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond (Censor), joins Anna to discuss the haunting Let's Scare Jessica to Death, the impact it had on the making of Censor and the legacy of the book. 

→ Watch all the films featured in the book HERE.

→ Buy the expanded edition of House of Psychotic Women HERE.

→ Attend the Matchbox Cine UK-wide tour HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

***

Music: "Prince of Darkness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

A new mini-series dedicated to the influential book by Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women. In this first episode, a conversation between writer Sophie Monks Kaufman and lecturer and podcaster Mary Wild about discovering the book, the cinephile memoir, and what makes it, even ten years on, such a peerless piece of work.

→ Watch all the films featured in the book HERE.

→ Buy the expanded edition of House of Psychotic Women HERE. 

→ Attend the Matchbox Cine UK-wide tour HERE.

→ Read Sophie Monks Kaufman's interview with Kier-la HERE.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Prince of Darkness" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

A bonus exclusive interview with THE Jamie Lee Curtis about the final instalment in the Halloween franchise, Halloween Ends, out in UK cinemas now.

We talk about seeking out scary stories, the emotional crux of the trilogy and the secret love story written into Halloween Ends.

A full review of Halloween Ends can be found on our Patreon. 

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

A deep dive review of Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong's new Netflix horror series, The Midnight Club, with writer, broadcaster and our Flanaverse reporter Louise Blain.

Spoilers from 0:36:02

The Midnight Club is available to watch on Netflix now.

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

David Cronenberg has returned to the horror space with Crimes of the Future. We chatted to Alexandra Anger and Monica Pavez, the team behind the strange and beautiful prosthetics, as well as Cronenberg's longtime producer, Robert Lantos.

Both interviews are SPOILER-FREE. 

You can listen to a deep dive review of the film on our Patreon. 

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

A bonus exclusive interview with Hanna Bergholm, director of Hatching, out in UK cinemas now.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

A bonus exclusive interview with Halina Reijn, director of Bodies Bodies Bodies, out in UK cinemas now. 

SPOILER WARNING: We talk about the ending from 0:22:09

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

Writer and actor Isaura Barbé-Brown joins Anna to go deep and long on Jordan Peele's third feature, Nope (2022), which has just hit UK cinemas.

The first part of the conversation is SPOILER-FREE, and then from we got FULL SPOILERIFIC.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

Our farewell to messy teens and the killers who can't stop chasing them, a medley of our contributor's thoughts on the state and the future of teen horror. With thanks to Clarisse Loughrey, BJ Colangelo, Yhara Zayd, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Mary Wild and Louise Blain. 

We're doing our first live show at the London Podcast Festival! And it's all about Jamie Lee Curtis. Get your tickets here.

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" and "Invasion" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

In the last full episode of the teen horror season we (finally!) cover the hit series Yellowjackets with the show's number one online cheerleader, Jordan Crucchiola.

We're doing our first live show at the London Podcast Festival! And it's all about Jamie Lee Curtis. Get your tickets here. 

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

***

The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

We're back on our teen slasher bullshit with the teen horror body swap comedy Freaky (2020). Joining us is the hilarious writer and podcaster Becky Darke to talk about why this film works and who she would body swap with given the chance. 

Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring the intersections of horror film and feminism, founded by Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe.

→ Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

→ Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

→ Support us on Patreon.

→ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for curated horror treats and original writing on horror.

A bonus episode interview with the author of A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers.

Her book has been called the "feminist American Psycho", and is a riot of a novel about sex, hunger, murder and cannibalism. 

Dorothy Daniels has always had a voracious – and adventurous – appetite. From her idyllic farm-to-table childhood (homegrown tomatoes, thick slices of freshly baked bread) to the heights of her career as a food critic (white truffles washed down with Barolo straight from the bottle) Dorothy has never been shy about indulging her exquisite tastes – even when it lead to her plunging an ice pick into her lover’s neck.

We discuss how the novel started, female serial killers in pop culture, the reception of the book on social media, and how it didn't start as a horror novel at all. 

A Certain Hunger is out now in the UK.