The Desire of Horror
Claim This Podcastby Charla Ferguson and Martin Essig
Podcast Overview
<p>Charla's love of horror movies combine with Marty's love of psychoanalysis and history of religions. This is a review and analysis of horror movies and what they say about desire. </p><p><br></p><p>You can purchase a t-shirt here: http://tee.pub/lic/tN64T8XLATU</p>
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Publishing Since
6/7/2025
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Recent Episodes
June 10, 2026
Special Episode: Backrooms (2026)
What about when we choose to remain sick? There is a scene in Backrooms in which the protagonist "Clark," played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, decides to stay in his disease because coming out of it would mean taking responsibility for things that he doesn't feel responsible for, and what's more, giving up on the enjoyment of blaming others. There is an ambiguity about who or what is responsible where mental illness is concerned. Is environment, genetics, or something else to blame? Regardless, the co...
June 9, 2026
32. Grizzly Man: Are We Responsible for Our Mental Illnesses?
Timothy Treadwell was mentally ill, and it led to his death and that of his girlfriend. He compensated for his sense of not being accepted in human society by projecting a persona of the protector of bears. He wasn't liked by the ladies but he believed that if they knew how good he was in the sack that they would have begged him for his company. And this sums up the lack of recognition that Treadwell projects onto the bears who would have loved nothing more than simply to be left alone to liv...
May 27, 2026
31. Out of Darkness
What is Otherness? Out of Darkness 2022 directed by Andrew Cumming fits into a number of horror categories, but we've decided to do it on our nature horror series. When we were kids back in the 80s, there were two bizarro movies about early hominids, Quest for Fire and the Clan of the Cave Bear. Both have proved to be quite incompatible with more recent paleo-anthropological findings. Many of those fallacies have been cleared up to great effect in Out of Darkness. The two most glaring of thes...
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- What is The Desire of Horror?
<p>Charla's love of horror movies combine with Marty's love of psychoanalysis and history of religions. This is a review and analysis of horror movies and what they say about desire. </p><p><br></p><p>You can purchase a t-shirt here: http://tee.pub/lic/tN64T8XLATU</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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