Final Girls Club
Survival guide meets feminist horror analysis, brought to you by Emily and Sammy of the It's Become a Whole Thing podcast. They're here to talk about surviving the monsters of everyday life through a feminist breakdown of horror movies, literature and pop culture tropes. It's a look at horror tropes for the girls, gays and theys from myths and fairy tales to horror movies.
Themes include: Hagsploitation, Pussy Panic, Final Girls, Creepy Kids, Women vs Women, Family, Killer Robots, Women as hunted/hunter, Mental Illness, the Devil, Possession, theory, Folk Horror, Toxic Masculinity, Dystopias, Monsters, Myths, Sex Panic, Vampires, Hauntings, The Woods, Christmas, Racism, Fascism, Drugs, Trauma, Fairy Tales.
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Episodes
Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Sammy and Emily are joined by Amber Dean, author of the psychological horror novel Hysterical, to discuss the 1992 classic Single White Female.
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Tuesday Jan 20, 2026
Tuesday Jan 20, 2026
Cat Fight month continues with a look at 1995's Showgirls starring Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone. We untwist this twisted, dark, camp look at the melding of glitz and glamour with exploitation.
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Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
We're back for a revisit of 2008's horror-comedy, Jennifer's Body. It was huge bomb at the time and hated by critics. But the film, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, starring has stood the test of time and risen to the top as a slow burn queer coded cult classic.
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Tuesday Dec 30, 2025
Tuesday Dec 30, 2025
From the archives of our Patreon vault from 2023, before Final Girls Club was birthed into the world. It’s our review of Pearl, starring Mia Goth! For 300+ more episodes including weekly pop culture hot topics, show and album reviews, check us out on patreon.com/itsbecomeawholething
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Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
Wednesday Dec 24, 2025
What happens when holiday cheer collapses under resentment, grief, and unmet expectations. We break down Krampus as a dark fairy tale about family, shame, and punishment, looking how the film turns Christmas tradition into a horror story about what happens when kindness and connection disappear.
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Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
It wouldn't be Family Is Hell Month without Ari Aster's Hereditary. We look at the film from an academic, analytical and personal lens from Toni Collette's genius to the metaphors for generational trauma passed down. This episode is brought to you by Paimon.
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Tuesday Dec 09, 2025
Tuesday Dec 09, 2025
Continuing Family Is Hell Month with Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a domestic horror masterpiece where addiction, resentment, and generational violence turn a winter isolation job into the world’s worst family retreat. We break down the plot, the psychology of the Torrances, and why the Overlook Hotel feels less like a haunting and more like an extension of the family’s curse.
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Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Welcome to 'Family is Hell' month. No better way to kick off this month's trope with an analysis of 2015's The Witch. A Puritan family unravels in the wilderness as grief, paranoia, and patriarchal terror turns home into hell. Beyond the movie, we look at the history of witchcraft and the roots of puritanical religious culture.
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Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
For Final Girl month, we're diving into Ready or Not (2019). It's a blood-soaked, dark horror-comedy where a new bride, Samara Weaving, becomes the ultimate Final Girl. We break down the full plot, the film’s class-war satire, cursed family traditions. We explore class consciousness, how the movie skewers the ultra rich and evolves Final Girl tropes.
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Monday Nov 17, 2025
Monday Nov 17, 2025
This week we’re diving into Scream (1996), the genre-defining slasher that mixed gore with postmodern humor and created a new rulebook for horror. From Casey Becker’s devastating opening to Sidney Prescott navigating survival, we explore how Scream turns teen girl vulnerability into power and why its commentary on sexuality, violence, technology, and media obsession still feels sharp today.
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