The ladies review Nosferatu and cover Panda Express discourse and the Neil Gaiman #MeToo.
Red Scare
Entering the Vampire Castle *TEASER*
all of these conversations at the time about, like, women's manias and hysterias. And of course, like, it's all related to women's sexual awakening, which is related to the coming of puberty, which is related to the start of men's sees, which is literally the loss of blood, right? Like, it's very, like, on the nose and its symbolism. And then the repression of the Victorian era, they also, far less sexy than it could have been. - Yeah, well, yeah. - I really want, I kept hearing this is movies about gooning. - Yeah. - This movies about the erotic power of a fanfiric devil over a young wife, you know? And that, though I enjoyed the convulsing and the drooling, when her husband starts, like, fucking her while she's, like, chimping, it was still felt a little, like, frankly, bloodless. - Yeah, but it's like, that part of Jack's review really resonated with me when he was, like, this is a movie about gooning as, like, porn brain zoomers perceive it. It's all like flinchy, twitchy motions that opening scene where she's, like, laying in the garden and spasming. And it's, like, super, yeah, like, medicalized and unsexy. - Yeah, it wasn't very sensual. - I guess Jack also put it really well. Like, you have this, like, vaguely-based notion now that, like, evil is real and can't be solved by, like, science, let alone psychoanalysis. There's a point when the Willem Defoe character, von Franz, says, "We have not so much become enlightened "as we have been blinded by the gaseous light of science." - Yeah. - Like, all the young men are solicitors and all the young women are melancholics. God, who said this recently? Like, before we had the term depression, they called it melancholia? - Yeah. - I don't know if that's, I mean, I think that's true. - Yeah. - And it's like back when they were, you know, doing humors and stuff, they were, like, vile, you had too much blood or, you had, like, these imbalances that resulted in, like, a melancholic temperament. - Yeah, and no one could understand where it was coming from. - Nietzsche said that, well, if women listen to the wrong kind of music, they could be kind of, like, imbalanced, which I think is kind of true. (laughs) - I believe that, yeah. - Like, you don't want them to do a trap. - Yeah, you don't have to get it all worked up. - Look, it possessed for real. - Back then, yeah, they, like, really suffered from, like, hysteria and feints and stuff. And now they're all on, like, birth control and SSRIs and, like, it's the same thing. Like, they are horny and confused and don't have a direct channel or outlet for their horniness. And Ellen has this, like, premonition by way of a recurring nightmare of being, like, betrothed to death. Where they, like, hold hands and say their vows and then she turns around and all the guests are dead and the stench of their bodies is overpowering, but she's never been happier. - Yeah. - And, like, you know how, like, in the olden days, like, the cure for that was to, like, have a physician literally, like, milk you, like, jerk you off, yeah.