Fatal Femmes

Welcome to Fatal Femmes. A podcast that explores women in horror, thrillers, and mysteries. Each episode focuses on a female-created or female-led story. We are your hosts Laura Celest Cannon and Lacey Cannon-Gonzales. In this episode, we look at the 2023 movie Totally Killer  Directed by  Nahnatchka Khan . Written by David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver , and Jen D’Angelo based on a story by Dav...

Hello! We have been absent for a while and we just wanted to check in. We will be back with our regular episodes soon.   Laura and Lacey

Welcome to Fatal Femmes. A podcast that explores women in horror, thrillers, and mysteries. Each episode focuses on a female-created or female-led story.    In this episode, we look at the 2017 psychological thriller drama , Woodshock Written and directed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy . Starring Kirsten Dunst , Joe Cole , and Pilou Asbæk . Trigger Warnings for this episode are murder, assisted s...

We are back!! In this episode, we look at the 2023 Horror Comedy, M3gan Directed by Gerard Johnstone . Written by Akela Cooper , based on a story by  Akela Cooper and James Wan . M3gan stars Allison Williams , Violet McGraw , Amie Donald , and Jenna Davis.  We want to caution you that this episode is full of spoilers. We go in-depth on every aspect of the plot so if you care about that go watch th...

Hi, y’all! Here is a quick update! Happy Halloween.   Laura’s youtube channel    

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We come to you from the Emerald Isle with the Irish Thriller Comedy, Pixie (2020). To get us started, here is a synopsis:   Pixie plans a heist that will give her the means to leave her small town. But everything goes wrong and she has to flee from gangsters with two companions that are in way over their heads.  We want to caution you that this episode is full of spo...

In this episode we look at the 1977 Japanese movie House. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi . Written by Chiho Katsura. Starring Kimiko Ikegami , Miki Jinbo , Kumiko Oba , Mieko Sato, Masayo Miyako, Eriko Tanaka, and Yōko Minamida . To get us started here is a synopsis: A schoolgirl travels with her six classmates to her ailing aunt’s country home, where they come face to face with supernatural...

Joining us in this episode is the fantastic thriller writer Layne Fargo ! In this episode we look at the 2000 slasher film American Psycho. Directed by   Mary Harron . Screenplay by Mary Harron and G uinevere Turner . Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis . Starring   Christian Bale , Willem Dafoe , Jared Leto , Josh Lucas , Chloë Sevigny , Samantha Mathis , Cara Seymour , Justin Theroux , Guine...

This is a special Patron selected episode! Our Patron Doug chose this for us to cover and he joined us to talk about it. In this episode, we look at the 2015  horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins . Starring Emma Roberts , Kiernan Shipka , Lucy Boynton , Lauren Holly , and James Remar . To get us started here is a synopsis, Over their winter break, two Catholic schoolgirls get left be...

Because of a family emergency we had to change the order of our episodes. The Blackcoat’s Daughter will now be part of our February line up.  In this episode we look at the 2020 Netflix Mystery Enola Holmes. Directed by Harry Bradbeer , screenplay by Jack Thorne , based on the first book in the young adult fiction series of the same name by Nancy Springer , Starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavil...

Happy New Year! To start off 2021 we are looking at stories set in desolate places. In this episode, we look at the 2020 Amazon Prime show The Wilds. Created by Sarah Streicher . Starring Sophia Ali , Shannon Berry, Jenna Clause, Reign Edwards , Mia Healey, Helena Howard , Erana James, Sarah Pidgeon, and R achel Griffiths . Trigger Warnings for this episode are an inappropriate relationship with a...

Happy Horror for the Holidays! This episode has been in the works for the last year. In this episode, we look at the 2018 Christmas Zombie Musical Anna and The Apocalypse. Directed by John McPhail. Written by Ryan McHenry and Alan McDonald. Based on McHenry’s 2010 BAFTA-nominated short Zombie Musical. Starring: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Ben Wigg...

Happy Horror for the Holidays! Joining us is a frequent guest and fabulous human being Laura Ray! In this episode, we look at the 1974 Canadian Holiday Slasher Black Christmas. Directed by Bob Clark , and written by A. Roy Moore. Starring   Olivia Hussey , Keir Dullea , Margot Kidder , Andrea Martin , Marian Waldman, Lynne Griffin , and John Saxon . Trigger Warnings: Stabbing, Suffocation, Acholis...

To finish off Noirvember, we look at the 1996 neo-noir Bound. Written and directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Jennifer Tilly , G ina Gershon and Joe Pantoliano .  Joining us is Sarah Truesdale! Trigger warnings for this episode are physical violence, gun violence, blood, and toxic masculinity. Recommendations:  The Handmaiden (2016) Directed by  Chan-wook Park Screenplay by Seo-kyeong Jeong , Cha...

In this Noirvember episode Laura-Celest talks to author Halley Sutton about her debut noir thriller The Lady Upstairs. Twitter HalleySutton.com A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story of a woman who makes a living taking down terrible men…then finds herself in over her head and with blood on her hands. The only way out? Pull off one...

Happy Halloween! Try not to eat any boys on this spooky night. No matter how much you want to. This is part 1 of Jennifer’s Body. In this episode we look at the 2009 movie Jennifer’s Body. Screenplay by Diablo Cody (also Executive Produced) Directed by Karyn Kusama Starring:  Megan Fox,  Amanda Seyfried,  Johnny Simmons,  Adam Brody,  Jk Simmons,  Amy Sedaris,  and randomly Chris Pratt...

Happy two year anniversary! We go back to where it all started for us to Elizabeth Taylor. Joining us in this celebration is Doug McCambridge from the Good Times Great Movies podcast . In this episode, we look at the 1959   Southern Gothic mystery film Suddenly, Last Summer. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams . Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with the screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennesse Wi...

Joining us in this episode is Carl Gonzales as we look at the 1997 TV Show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Created Written Joss Whedon. Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Charisma Carpenter, and Anthony Stewart Head.  As of 2018, a spin-off “sequel” of the series is being developed for television, with Monica Owusu-Breen as showrunner Recommendations: Slayerfe...

In Episode 30 we welcome our very special guest Andy Wolverton for our Mother’s Day episode about Mildred Pierce. Directed by Michael Curtiz . Screenplay by Ranald MacDougall based on the book by James M. Cain . Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson , Zachary Scott , Eve Arden and Ann Blyth. Trigger warnings for this episode are gun violence, emotional and psychological abuse. Find Andy a http...

In honor of National Siblings Day, we cover our favorite siblings the Hudson sister in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Joining us is Sarah Truesdale.  She writes for Goombstomp.com Released in 1962. Directed by Robert Aldrich. Written by Lukas Heller. Based on the book by Henry Farrell. Staring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford . Trigger warnings for this episode are physical and mental abuse, alcoho...

In this episode we look at the 2018 movie Assassination Nation. Written and Directed by Sam Levinson. Staring Odessa Young , Suki Waterhouse , Hari Nef , Abra , and Anika Noni Rose .   Trigger warning for this episode are bullying , blood , abuse , classism , death , drinking , drug use , sexual content , toxic masculinity , homophobia , transphobia , guns , nationalism , racism , kidnapping , mur...

In episode 26 we look at the 1996 movie Set It Off. Directed by F. Gary Gray, written by Kate Lanier and Takashi Bufford. Staring Jada Pinkett-Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise. Trigger warning for this episode are gun violence, death, racism, sexism, violent imagery, sexual exploitation, state violence, homophobia, classism, and misogynoir . Misogynoir is misogyny directed to...

In this episode we look at the 2016 movie Hush. Directed by Mike Flanagan, written by Kate Siegel and Mike Flanagan, staring Kate Siegel John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan. A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window. Trigger warnings for this episode are violence and gore...

We had the pleasure of talking to author Michele W. Miller about her latest book Widows-in-Law.  Widows-in-Law is a gripping tale of mothers and daughters, wives and ex-wives, broken and remade families, and unlikely partners-in-crime. Most of all, it is a moving story about the women left behind to clean up the messes men make. Michele is an attorney who practices public interest law and lives in...

Wrapping up Noirvember with the 1950 Noir The File on Thelma Jordon. Directed by Robert Siodmak , written by Ketti Frings based on a story by Marty Holland, staring Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey.   Recommendations: Pushover (1954) Directed by Richard Quine Staring Fred MacMurray , Phil Carey and Kim Novak Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Directed by Anatole Litvak Staring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt...