That's So Gothic

Very rarely is the Gothic "romantic rival" someone's biological twin brother, but very rarely do you get a treat of a film like (The) House of Yes (1997). (Literally just saw the "the" in the title as we were writing this description.) Written and directed by Mark Waters, based on a stage play by Wendy MacLeod, starring Parker Posey, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Ra...

We go to Manderley and hope to not get eaten by an heir to a baking soda fortune. Rebecca (2020) Dir. Ben Wheatley Written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel (yeah right) and Anna Waterhouse. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrc...

The Others (1999) Dir. Alejandro Amenábar. Written by Amenábar. Starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan and Alakina Mann. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee and @mcavoy_amanda. Instagram @sogothicpod Closing music "Gothic Guitar" by Javolenus 2014- Licensed under Creative...

IT'S ALIIIVE! The trailer has no dialogue, which is ironic for a movie where no one ever stops talking at MAXIMUM VOLUME. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Adapted by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Starring Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter, and Robert Deniro. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thurs...

Make way for a new woman in black. She's in mourning, but she won't let that stop her! My Cousin Rachel (2017) Dir. Roger Michell. Adapted by Michell from Daphne DuMaurier's novel of the same name. Starring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, and Holliday Grainger. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and...

She's so bored she could KILL. Lady Macbeth (2017) Dir. William Oldroyd. Adapted by Alice Birch from the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov. Starring Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, and Naomi Ackie. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mrchancelee an...

This gothic classic is identical to its 2018 Sophia Coppola remake except with more melodrama, brighter lights, theatrical acting, and ten times the horniness. The Beguiled (1971) Dir. Don Siegel. Adapted from the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, and it's complicated. Starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Mae Mercer, and Pamelyn Ferdin. That's So Gothic releases ep...

"Twilight, but with witches" is both an accurate description and a rude insult to this immensely charming teen romance that brings out the steamy side of Southern Gothic. Beautiful Creatures (2013) Dir. Richard LaGravenese. Adapted by LaGravenese from the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Viola Davis, and Jeremy...

Our Southern Gothic series continues with a movie that grapples with the horrors of slavery in the American South, Beloved. Also a movie that had Karina Longworth ask, Civil Rights action or B-movie? https://grantland.com/features/looking-back-oprah-winfrey-beloved/ Beloved (1998) Dir. Jonathan Demme. Screenplay by Akosua Busia, Adam Brooks, Richard LaGravenese. Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glove...

Our Southern Gothic series is now in full swing with the New Orleans-infused thriller, The Skeleton Key! The Skeleton Key (2005) Dir. Iain Softley. Screenplay by Ehren Kruger. Starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, and Peter Saarsgard. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda on Letterboxd @mr...

Have you seen Cape Fear or have you seen Cape Feare (The Simpsons episode paraodying the movie)? Cape Fear (1991) Dir. Martin Scorsese. Screenplay by Wesley Strick. Starring Robert DeNiro, Juliette Lewis, Nick Nolte, and Jessica Lange. (We couldn't locate the source for our Southern Gothic facts, but we will post when we find it!) That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday...

Dracula. The Mummy. Wolfman. Creature from the Black Lagoon. And creature from the Bates Motel. We discuss the return of classic Universal movie monster Norman Bates in Psycho II (1983) Dir. Richard Franklin. Screenplay by Tom Holland. Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, and Dennis Franz. Facts about Psycho II: https://www.eightieskids.com/completely-terrifying-facts-about-psycho-ii/...

All this sheeyit! Look at my sheeyit! I got … I got SHORTS! Every fuckin’ color. I got designer T-shirts! I got gold bullets. Motherfuckin’ VAM-pires. I got  Scarface . On repeat.  SCARFACE  ON REPEAT. Constant, y’all! I got Escape! Calvin Klein Escape! Mix it up with Calvin Klein Be. Smell nice? I SMELL NICE! That ain’t a fuckin’ bed; that’s a fuckin’ art piece. My fuckin’ spaceship! U.S.S. Enter...

If you could re-make any movie, what would you choose? After the blockbuster success of Good Will Hunting, Gus van Sant chose to re-do Psycho, from the same script! The disastrous box office made this the first and last experiment of its type.  Psycho (1998) directed by Gus van Sant. Shot from the original screenplay, lightly altered by original screenwriter Joseph Stefano. Starring Anne Hech...

We have a lot of hunka hunka burnin' love for Baz Luhrmann's glittery masterpiece about the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Nominated for multiple Oscars, including Best Actor for Austin Butler, Elvis is a thrill ride. And yes, you are subscribed to the right podcast. Full Gothic breakdown after the plot summary. Elvis (2022) director by Baz Luhrmann. Written by Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, and Jer...

If an Airbnb looks too good to be true, there is most likely a rabid monster borne from an incestuous serial killer living in a secret room in the basement.   Directed and written by Zach Cregger. Starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amand...

The children's of the night -- what music they make. The music doesn't make a lick of sense, but it's music. Much like this movie. Sharpen your fangs as we discuss Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Screenplay by James V. Hart. Starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins doing about seven different accents. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and th...

We really enjoyed discussing Phantom Thread (2017) dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps. However, the internet ate it. We will resume our regular schedule in February. 

If you give Ed Harris a cookie, then he'll want some whiskey. If you give him whiskey, then he'll invite his wife into your home. If he invites his wife, they'll invite their children. If they invite their children, genocide will break out in your living room. Wow, that escalated quickly! We're starting the year off with a bang by dissecting Darren Aronofsky's 2017 masterpiece, mother! Screenplay...

Fa la la la laaaAAAAHHH! It's a special Christmas episode of That's So Gothic. Sit by a crackling fire and listen as we discuss the 2019 remake of Black Christmas. Dir. Sophia Takal. Screenplay by Takal and April Wolfe. Starring Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, and Cary Elwes. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month.  Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Cha...

On Slasher, on slits 'em! We're dreaming of a Black Christmas. Dir. Bob Clarke. Screenplay by A. Roy Moore. Starring Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, and Keir Dullea. We also briefly discuss the grotesque 2006 remake Dir. by Glen Morgan with screenplay by Morgan. Starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert and, again, Andrea Martin. Toronto Sta...

Happy Holidays, wee ghosties. Grab yourself a hot cocoa and some carbon monoxide. We are kicking off a month of Christmas Gothic with the modern classic "The Lodge." Dirs. Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. Screenplay by Fiala, Franz, & Sergio Casci. Starring Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage, and Alicia Silverstone.  “It’s all her fault”: Gaslighting & the Vir...

It's why we say "pinano" all the time: The Power of the Dog. Oh yeah, also a western about the damaging effects of toxic masculinity. Dir. Jane Campion, screenplay by Campion based on the book by Thomas Savage, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Thomasin McKenize. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email s...

We're donning vampire fangs and biting down on fake blood capsules as we enjoy a special Halloween episode! It's the movie that launched a thousand careers: Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan, screenplay Anne Rice, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, and Christian Slater. We spend an exorbitant amount of time talking about how difficult and crazy Anne R...

Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go! The Visit (2015) dir. and written by  M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, with special appearances by Kathryn Hahn and Celia Keenan-Bolger. That's So Gothic releases episodes on the first and third Thursday every month. Email sogothicpod@gmail.com. Follow Chance and Amanda...