In this episode, I chat with one of my co-authors from our upcoming publication, Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in Horror, which is set to be one of the most extensive horror essay anthologies on liminality EVER published!

Jessica and I discuss our contributions to the work and the omnipresence of liminality and the fear of liminal spaces in horror.

We discuss her essay, "Dementia in Dimensions: Trapped between the Horrors of Cognitive Disease and Death" which looks at the unsettling crossroads where horror, aging, and identity meet, focusing on how dementia and decline are portrayed through women’s bodies on film.

Our conversation explores the liminal body in The Visit, Relic, and The Taking of Deborah Logan, looking at how these movies use dementia, memory loss, and family caretaking to create deeply human and deeply terrifying stories.

We also break down the recent return of hagsploitation films, the cultural fears wrapped around older women in horror, and why aging itself becomes a liminal space that filmmakers keep returning to.

• The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
• The Visit (2015)
• Relic (2020)

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