Episode Details

Episode 07: Art in Horror Storytelling

This episode was recorded on August 20, 2023 and posted on September 23, 2023

Content Warning: Light vulgarity.

Introduction

• Welcome to No Bodies Episode 7
• Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie of Horror Movie Weekly
• Introductions to our guest - horror illustrator Bonnie Bozell
• Today's Topic: Art in Horror Storytelling

Discussion of Art in Horror

• Our experiences with fine art and "dark" art
• Defining dark art and the tortured artist
• Why are mental health and art so intertwined, especially in horror?
• Dark art examples & recommendations from Bonnie
• Horror films that feature tortured artists
• Horror films that feature art as horror elements

Worst & Best Representations of Latin American Horror

Spoilers ahead!

Worst

• Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) - Lonely & Bonnie
• The Death Artist (1995) - Suzie

Best

• Ghostbusters 2 (1989) - Suzie
• Bliss (2019) - Bonnie

Suzie's Deep Cuts

Includes films with under 5k ratings on IMDB.

• The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
• The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
• The Haunting of Helena (2012)
• Malicious (2018)
• Golem (2018)

Final Thoughts

• How do you think the element of art as horror storytelling could be improved or fine tuned in the feature?

Dark Art Mentioned in this Episode

• The Papal Portraits of 1953 by Francis Bacon
• The Scream by Edvard Munch
• Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya
• The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli
• The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
• Girl with Death Mask (She Plays Alone) by Frida Kahlo
• The Severed Heads by Theodore Gericault
• Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette by Van Gogh
• Medusa by Caravaggio

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