VHS Sisters

Hey Loyal Sisterlovers! Guess what? It's freezing, it's dark, and the big tree is up at Rockefeller Center! In honor of this VERY festive time of year, Saysha makes Melanie watch one of THE MOST quintessential New York romantic comedies set during the holidays that features zero people of color! Most of the time they talk about Jewish deli food, the importance of decentering men, Upper W...

DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT! Listeners, today is a VERY special day because this is the first time we are doing a FULL musical on this podcast (The Worst Witch and Labyrinth don't count! FIGHT ME IF YOU THINK SO!!!) We discuss the classic cult midnight movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and get into its humble beginnings as a stage show, its massive influence on subculture and the punk move...

SOMETIMES DEAD IS BETTER!!! Hooooooo boy, today Saysha really shoots herself in the foot, making Melanie and herself watch yet another Stephen King movie that has NOT held up well over time: Pet Sematary! Together, they navigate the dark woods of this highly flawed horror classic, but manage to find some interesting things to chat about —mostly about video store nostalgia, autumnal vibes, travel w...

DANCE MAGIC DANCE!!!! Wowee wow, Listeners, do we have a really great episode for you! Saysha *finally* forced Melanie to watch the weirdly beloved Jim Henson/Brian Froud collab-Labyrinth! This one is a stone-cold VHS classic, and we discuss many things at length, including, but not limited to, sexy puppet love triangles, dream castings for the Labyrinth remake (please email us with your suggestio...

FEVER DREAM ALERT!!!! Greetings, Loyal Listeners! Please indulge us this week as Saysha completely spirals and forces Melanie to listen to one of her earliest movie memories—the completely batshit adaptation of Angela Carter's short story, "The Company of Wolves." We discuss women, men, dogs, menstruation, wolves, dolls, apples, trees, and how Angela Carter is the grandmother of mag...

Surprise!!! We have ANOTHER special 'ween ep just for YOU, Devoted Listener. Today, we do a long, deep dive into the overwhelmingly horny 1992 vampire romance/horror Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. This movie is Saysha's Roman Empire and one of her Special Interests, so buckle up for some long infodumps and highly detailed costume descriptions. We also touch on in...

OOOOOOOOOOO this is gonna be an ooky, spooky, kooky episode indeed!  Can you believe Melanie has never seen the legendary primetime TV adaptation of the great Stephen King novel It?  I forced her to watch it so we could share some sisterly clown trauma and discuss how and why this was made for television to traumatize an entire generation of kids! This is our second film featuring Tim Curry and th...

MMMMMMMMMM!!!! Today's episode is SUPER special for us because it took MANY MANY months of cajoling to get Melanie to actually sit down and watch this! And even though The Dark Crystal was not marketed as an actual *horror* movie, we are keeping with our spooky movie theme this month because Melanie definitely got some new nightmare fuel from this film. We yap about more puppet trauma, the im...

So many munchings and crunchings! This week Saysha realizes that one of the movies she has recommended to Melanie perhaps does NOT stand up to scrutiny. However, there is still MUCH to discuss, including but not limited to overdone fantasy tropes, TTRPGs, annoying voice acting choices, and how early to mid-80s fantasy movies were mainly created to put the fear of death into a generation of young k...

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ON HALLOWEEN!!! We are kicking off October with one of Saysha's favorite unhinged childhood classics-The Worst Witch from 1986! We have a TON of fun discussing cozy witch academia, inappropriate age-gap crushes, green screen shenanigans, and how J.K Rowling is the biggest loser hack of all time! Enjoy!!! Correction: Bella Ramsey's pronouns are they/them :) Link to ful...

Greetings, Fellow Witches! We are *really* getting into some spooky season favorites now and breaking down the childhood trauma classic, The Witches! Melanie has neither read the book nor seen the movie, so we get a whole fresh take on the scary witch prosthetics and the adorable mouse puppetry. We also discuss at length how a long holiday by the sea could fix us both!  The actual Witches hotel: h...

WOW y'all, this one might be one of our best episodes yet! We discuss an all-time favorite and extremely cursed 1980s children's fantasy film-The Neverending Story! We delve deep into Melanie's fear and hatred of puppetry, the stoicism of German culture, the inherent queerness of fae creatures, and gender roles in the 1980s. This one is one of Saysha's all-time favorites, so th...

G’Day mates! This week, we do a LONG cozy ramble about the 1994 Australian sleeper hit Muriel’s Wedding! We recap the WHOLE film, discuss 90’s fashion AT LENGTH, get into the scam of the wedding industrial complex, and dissect working class culture while ALSO planting the seeds of a green card marriage for Melanie ( all potential suitors please email us at vhssisterspodcast@gmail.com!) Please leav...

In this week's podcast, we talk about that weirdly beloved whimsigoth classic from 1998...Practical Magic! We talk a *little* more about the actual film, but mostly discuss 90's home decor, numerous unrelated TV shows, and the commodification of witchcraft in general. We will probably get a LOT of hate for this one but we DO NOT CARE. Link to the "Soup Mode" hat that Melanie re...

Saysha and Melanie DIVE into the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic Jaws, which somehow Melanie has NEVER seen despite being a massive fan of bodies of water and marine life in general! They barely discuss the details of the movie at all, but do discuss the food, fashion, and mourn over the abandoned romantic subplot at length! *Melanie's mic quality is a tad shabby on this ep, but tune in to Ep 2...