A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night: We Like the Way You Stir It with Johanna Isaacson

This week we talk with special guest and feminist horror critic Johanna Isaacson about Ana Lily Amirpour's 2014 Persian-language western Neo-noir vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.

Spoilers: sexy vampires, terrible men, Chester Cheeto, skateboarding, the "Jurassic Park rule," hipster directors, Tony Hawk 380.

Special Guest: Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (Common Notions 2023). You can follow her @StepfordDotter on Twitter. Read the Blind Field Journal piece of hers we mention in this episode, We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978).

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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige

Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley