Ep. 65: THE LOVE WITCH (2016) - He's a Pisces

Get out your tarot cards and start brewing your witch bottles because this week your favorite ghouls are discussing Anna Biller's THE LOVE WITCH! Topics include: Witchsploitation and Patriarchal Exploitation, Toxic Beauty & Feminine Standards, gender roles, and the Psychology of Love, Fantasy & Narcissism. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com --- Resources: The Movies That Changed My Life by Anna Biller https://theplaylist.net/love-witch-director-anna-biller-movies-changed-life-20161110/ The Love Witch - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Witch The Love Witch paints the battle of the sexes with a gaudy Technicolor brush by Katie Rife https://film.avclub.com/the-love-witch-paints-the-battle-of-the-sexes-with-a-ga-1798189434 The Love Witch: a film about the perversities of desire that will soon be a cult feminist classic by Marlon Gibson http://theconversation.com/the-love-witch-a-film-about-the-perversities-of-desire-that-will-soon-be-a-cult-feminist-classic-73308 FANGRRLS ON FILM: GENDER NORMS MAKE EVERYONE MISERABLE IN THE LOVE WITCH by Sarah Marrs https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/fangrrls-on-film-gender-norms-make-everyone-miserable-in-the-love-witch 'The Love Witch' Is Campy Horror That Feminist Cinema Needs by Kate Loftus O'Brien https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdbzk9/the-love-witch-is-the-camp-murderous-horror-anna-billers Anna Biller on The Love Witch and how she crafts spellbinding female fantasies by Sophie Monks Kaufman https://lwlies.com/articles/anna-biller-the-love-witch-female-fantasies/ Crazy In Love: Transgressive Femininities in Anna Biller’s ‘The Love Witch’ By Annette LePique https://www.anothergaze.com/crazy-love-transgressive-femininities-anna-billers-love-witch/ Under Her Spell: Anna Biller’s The Love Witch BY MICHAEL SICINSKI https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/lovewitch/ “Poor baby”: The Love Witch by Laura Thomas https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30231-7/fulltext The Love Witch and witchcraft's appeal in the era of Trump by Clarisse Loughrey https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-love-witch-witchcraft-anna-biller-feminist-horror-film-donald-trump-lana-del-rey-a7627921.html ANNA BILLER ON CLASSIC FILMS AND TWITTER FEMINISMS BY KATHERINE FUSCO https://www.publicbooks.org/anna-biller-on-classic-films-and-twitter-feminisms/ ‘The Love Witch’ Looks Familiar but Feels Remarkably Fresh by Lee Jutton https://www.btchflcks.com/2017/04/the-love-witch-looks-familiar-but-feels-remarkably-fresh.html#.XaD_x-dKjOQ The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously by Lili Loofbourow https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/06/the-male-glance-how-we-fail-to-take-womens-stories-seriously