Tonight we are talking about how the scares behind modern slashers are linked to fears we've had as humans throughout history.

Curious about the episode? Here are the resources I used:

Films Mentioned (Year) - Director * = Spoiled:

Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock

Black Christmas (1974) - Bob Clark

Halloween (1972) - John Carpenter

Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell*

Scream (1996) - Wes Craven

Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986) - Tom McLoughlin*

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) - ScottGlosserman

Nosferatu (1922) - F.W. Murnau

Doctor X (1932) - Michael Curtiz

Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Lon Chaney et al.

Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Mario Bava

You're Next (2011) - Adam Wingard

The Collector (2009) - Marcus Dunstan

Friday the 13th Part 7 (1988) - John Carl Buechler

Halloween (2018) - David Green*

Freddy vs Jason (2003) - Ronny Yu*

Books:

The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityBy Elliott M. Simon

Primary Sources:

The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Hamlet by Shakespeare

Laxdaela Saga

Grettir's Saga

Articles:

Mot - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27924890

Thanatos -https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651030510021201

Japanese Noh - https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/75/article/417595/summary

Japanese Noh -https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0071389

Greek Masks - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/499391

Plague Doctor Masks -http://www.rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2020/12/2020-12-72-spotlight-pan.pdf

Revenant Burials:

https://archaeology.org/news/2024/06/11/240430-germany-revenant-grave/

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/blog/ancient-greeks-feared-walking-dead-secrets-news-june-13-19-2015/

https://archaeology.org/news/2015/06/25/zombie-sicily-greek-living-dead/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies/blog/2017/viking-zombies/

https://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/full.html

This episode explores recurring themes across history and horror. Similar ideas appearing across cultures do not necessarily indicate direct historical influence.