Tonight we are talking about how the scares behind modern slashers are linked to fears we've had as humans throughout history.
Curious about the episode? Here are the resources I used:
Films Mentioned (Year) – Director * = Spoiled:
Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock
Black Christmas (1974) – Bob Clark
Halloween (1972) – John Carpenter
Peeping Tom (1960) – Michael Powell*
Scream (1996) – Wes Craven
Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986) – Tom McLoughlin*
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) – ScottGlosserman
Nosferatu (1922) – F.W. Murnau
Doctor X (1932) – Michael Curtiz
Phantom of the Opera (1925) – Lon Chaney et al.
Blood and Black Lace (1964) – Mario Bava
You're Next (2011) – Adam Wingard
The Collector (2009) – Marcus Dunstan
Friday the 13th Part 7 (1988) – John Carl Buechler
Halloween (2018) – David Green*
Freddy vs Jason (2003) – Ronny Yu*
Books:
The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityBy Elliott M. Simon
Primary Sources:
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Laxdaela Saga
Grettir's Saga
Articles:
Mot – https://www.jstor.org/stable/27924890
Thanatos -https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651030510021201
Japanese Noh – https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/75/article/417595/summary
Japanese Noh -https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0071389
Greek Masks – https://muse.jhu.edu/article/499391
Plague Doctor Masks -http://www.rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2020/12/2020-12-72-spotlight-pan.pdf
Revenant Burials:
Ancient Greeks Feared the Walking Dead? – Secrets in the News: June 13 – 19, 2015
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies/blog/2017/viking-zombies/
https://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html
This episode explores recurring themes across history and horror. Similar ideas appearing across cultures do not necessarily indicate direct historical influence.
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