Red Scare - Entering the Vampire Castle *TEASER*

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

The ladies review Nosferatu and cover Panda Express discourse and the Neil Gaiman #MeToo.

all 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 menses, which is literally the loss of blood. Right.

Like it's very like on the nose and it's symbolism. And then like the repression of the Victorian era. They also far less sexy than it could have been. Yeah. Well, I kept hearing this is movies about gooning. Yeah. This is about the erotic power of a vampiric devil over a young waif, you know?

And that, though I enjoyed the convulsing and the drooling, when her husband starts like fucking her while she's like chipping, 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 because 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 Dafoe character, Von Franz says, we have not so much become enlightened as we have been blinded by the gaseous light of science. Yeah. All the young men are solicitors and all the young women are melancholic. God, who said this recently?

Like before we had the term depression, they called it melancholia. Yeah. I don't know who that's. I mean they called it melancholia. Yeah. I don't know who that's. I mean, I think that's true. Yeah. And it's like when they were, you know, doing humors and stuff, you're like bile, you had too much blood or you're loopy. 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 if women listen to the wrong kind of music, they could become imbalanced, which I think is kind of true. I believe that, yeah. Like you don't want them getting all worked up. Yeah, you don't want them getting all worked up. Or get possessed for real.

Back then, yeah, they really suffered from hysteria and faints and stuff, and now they're all on birth control and SSRIs, and it's the same thing. 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.

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.