We Are Scared

Your favorite final girls are back with Season 2 of We Are Scared! Join Camille (she/her), Kiar ã (she/her) and Anika (she/her), as they embark on yet another journey through horror. Strap in for another series of dissecting and dismembering your favorite movies, this time as they focus on woodsy-retreats: The Evil Dead, The Blair Witch Project, Antichrist, Cabin in the Woods, X, The Blackening

It's our season finale! It's a doozy; the cherry on top to our series on slashers. It's Scream, the self-aware, scary movie that revived the genre. It celebrates all the slashers that came before it, it plays with expectations, it is simply a delight. Kiara, Anika, and Camille looked forward to this conversation all season, and it shows. Tune in for our last slasher hurrah! Sources: &q...

Woodsboro is a sweet, sleepy town with few worries, except for Ghostface: a nuisance in a sparkly costume on a killing spree. Camille gives a gripping synopsis of Wes Craven's masterpiece, Scream.

Urban horror is uniquely horrifying. Perhaps because help is abundant but seldom helpful. Perhaps because when something comes for you, it comes for you alone. Brandishing a hook for a hand, lusting after blood and vengeance, Candyman keeps fear alive. Camille, Kïarã, and Anika were compelled to check their medicine cabinets after watching Bernard Rose's Candyman. Sources: Time: “How Candyman...

Candyman, candyman, candyman…don't say it 5 times! Welcome to the world of urban terror. Candyman is far from sweet, and you’ll understand why in Kïarã’s tell-all synopsis of this 90s classic. Sources: Horror Mine’s “CANDYMAN (1992) Explained | Movie Recap”, available on YouTube

Friday the 13th holds up a mirror to 1980s America like a glassy lake next to the woods. What lives beneath those shimmering reflections? Into the thick of it we go! Anika, Kïarã and Camille are up against a nostalgic, campy terror. The woods, the lake, the bathroom, this killer prowls them all. You know her, you love her, and you should avoid her at all costs!

The teens are having sex again, and this time there will be consequences! Friday the 13th is a fever dream of a film, and Anika can't wait to tell you about it, heavily assisted by a plot summary she found on google because watching this movie even one more time might have pushed her to her breaking point. Sources: Horror Film Wiki's "Friday the 13th"

It’s Halloween. These teens are lust-filled and mischievous, and someone’s watching! We’re going behind the mask of this week’s villain. Is Michael Myers human? Is he meant to have sex appeal? Join Camille, Anika and Kïarã in their discussion of John Carpenter's nail-biter Halloween.   Sources: "Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film" (1993) by Carol J. Clover “...

Ghosts and ghouls and Michael, oh my! Camille gives a play by play of this frightful, menacing Halloween night.

Anika, Kïarã, and Camille are baited up, into the attic in Bob Clark’s suffocating slasher, Black Christmas. Is there anything worse than dreading phonecalls from a stranger while you’re home alone? Yes! And we’ll tell you all about it in this week’s episode of We Are Scared. Sources: "Black Christmas Legacy” (2015) Directed by Justin McConnell & George Mihalka

Something lurks in the shadows of an otherwise typical sorority house. Anika recounts the grizzly events that unfolded some holly, jolly Christmases ago.

Camille, Kïarã, and Anika sink their teeth into Tobe Hooper’s "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". This first episode in our series on slashers is loaded with tropes that defined the genre. We’ll explore who the villain is, why and how it is this movie was made to feel so tortuous!  Sources: "Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film" (1993) by Carol J. Clover “Chai...

Kïarã gives a We Were Spared style synopsis of this menacing, off the chain, slasher flick.

...the podcast where we dissect and dismember your favorite horror movies, usually! But in this episode we're introducing ourselves (your hosts, Camille, Kïarã, & Anika), what horror means to us, and the season ahead. Season one is all about pre-2000 slashers: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Candyman, and Scream. Join us as we slash our way through...