AnDread celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Freaks & Psychos podcast by talking with film journalist and access consultant Charlotte Little and horror fan (and intro music composer) Dark Mark. We discuss the changing trends in disability representation in horror, horror short films and the Left for Deaf screening, disability and apocalypse, the growth of the podcast, and Halloween horror!
Intro
Guest Discussion with Charlotte Little
- Charlotte’s work as film journalist and access consultant for film festivals
- Left for Deaf online screening featuring short films exploring deafness and disability in horror
- A Quiet Place sparked interest in horror
- Greater diversity in horror fandom and more attention to social issues has made horror fandom more welcoming places for those who live with marginalized identities
- Curation of the Left for Deaf screening event
- Dawn of the Deaf(Rob Savage) – When a sonic pulse infects the hearing population, a small group of Deaf people must band together to survive.
- Dead End Drive (Alexander Yellen) – A man seeks shelter from a couple during a zombie apocalypse.
- Retreat (Ted Evans, 2013) – In a post-apocalyptic world, the member of a Deaf commune risks the safety of her companions when she gives aid to a hearing man.
- In Her Shoes (Ray Kermani) – A young girl in a cemetery is haunted by a pair of cursed shoes.
- Dawn of the Deaf – variety of Deaf experience, perspective subtitles, themes of communication, access, deafness, and community
- Dead End Drive – subversion of idea that disabled people would not survive in zombie apocalypse, unique role of disabled character complicates villain/hero dynamic
- Disability in post-apocalyptic horror (Dawn of the Deaf, Dead End Drive, Retreat, A Quiet Place, Bird Box)
- Way of retelling the apocalypse story
- Deafness and disability can be survival advantage, diversity needed for survival
- Reframing of disability as benefit rather than deficit
- Perhaps a new subgenre of disability in post-apocalypse world?
- Films or topics you’d like to see covered on the show?
- A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II
- Representations that speak more to the spectrum of disability (not as a totalized experience – for example: visual impairment vs. total blindness, hard of hearing vs. total deafness, ambulatory wheelchair users)
- Disabled werewolves (when we have some films about them)
- Older Hollywood films from the 1960s
- Late Phases
- The X-Files?
- The Village (Jay of the Dead’s personal favorite)
- Guest plugs
- TWITTER: @ALittleOutlook
- WEBSITE: captioncaptions.com
Guest Discussion with Dark Mark 1:16:42
- Podcast growth
- General thoughts
- Some stats:
- 28 countries on every continent but Antarctica
- 46 U.S. states
- Average of over 100 downloads per episode
- Most downloaded: Episode 1, 407 downloads
- Favorite episode(s)
- Have your thoughts on disability in horror changed?
- Halloween horror
- Halloween
- Trick R Treat
- May
- Donnie Darko
- Satan’s Little Helper
- Haunt
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow
- Matt Foley: A Scary Story on Halloween – Saturday Night Live
Plugs and Wrap-Up 2:50:00
- WEBSITE: freaksandpsychospodcast.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review
- EMAIL: freaksandpsychospodcast@gmail.com
- VOICEMAIL: 614-721-1011
- TWITTER: @FreaksPsychos and @AnDreadtheBlind
- LETTERBOXD: Andread. Disability in Horror list
- DARK MARK, creator of the show’s intro and outro music
- Twitter: @mark underscore longfield
- Letterboxd: Darkmark
- NEXT EPISODE: TBD
- If you find yourself wishing that you were normal, just remember: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth.
There will be a transcript for this show in the future. Please contact freaksandpsychospodcast@gmail.com for any accessibility concerns.
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