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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We’ve got one heck of an episode in store for you guys as we’re talking about Lady Stay Dead and Don’t Go In The Woods, both from 1981.

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We briefly talk what we’ve doing involving horror recently. Liam discusses the film Infinity Buffet, and Justin talks about the films This Is Not A Test, Hokum, Disclosure Day, and some of the films he watched for the Chattanooga Film Festival.

Up first is Lady Stay Dead. We talk largely about how unpleasant we found the film to be, mostly since it felt interested mostly in being cruel and shocking and not so much in telling some kind of story. We compare the sexual assault scenes to other famous horror films that use such a tactic, and how the film has the unsettling tendency to sexualize such things instead of portraying them as acts of violence. Liam points out the film somehow is the worst at this amongst ‘80s horror films, and not only is it edgy for the sake of edgy it’s also not particularly good at it.

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