Panic Pixie Scream Girls: Recent Episodes
Becky & Holly
Two people living with anxiety and a love of horror movies, explore the relationship between the two and the deeper meaning behind why we love to be scared. Also how does this intersect with gender and feminine experience?
In this episode Becky & Holly your favorite Panic Pixies discuss the 2016 film Under the Shadow, directed by Babak Anvari and set in the 1980s in Iran.
Content warnings: War, Bombing, War and childhood, Military police, Arrest, Forced veiling, Death, Grief and loss, Death of a parent, Motherhood, Mother/daughter relationship, Interpersonal conflict and violence, Mental illness, Anxiety, Trauma, Nightmares, Sleepwalking, COVID pandemic, Face masks, Social distancing, Ghosts/jinn, Supernatural forces, Folklore and mythology.
In this episode Holly & Becky discuss the 2015 film 'They look like people' with special guest Jane from 'Talking Sense London' https://www.talking-sense.co.uk/. If you are impacted by Hearing Voices of simply want to know more please check out these excellent websites:
https://www.hearing-voices.org/
https://understandingvoices.com/
https://www.intervoiceonline.org/
And for children and young people specifically : http://www.voicecollective.co.uk/
CONTENT WARNINGS: Mental illness, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, Suicide, OCD, Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, Psychosis, hearing voices, hallucinations, perceptual distortions, religious experiences, speaking in tongues, Psychogenic illness/"hysteria", Hypervigilance, Intrusive thoughts, Gaslighting, Phobias - fear of heights, fear of flying, blood and gore, menstruation, miscarriage, demonic possession, murder, violence, military violence, weapons, abusive relationships, Peadophilia, toxic masculinity, medical misogyny and transphobia, brief mention of pandemic.
In this episode the Panic Pixies discuss one of Becky's favorite horror films, The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the book by Stephen King.
Content warnings: Child abuse (physical violence), Domestic abuse (verbal, coercive control), Misogyny, Mental illness, Anxiety, Mania, Trauma, PTSD, triggers and flashbacks, Dissociation, OCD, Alcoholism, Lockdown, Murder, Blood, Racial stereotyping, The Holocaust, Strangulation, Suicide, Ghosts, Hanging, Nudity, Ageism, Spoiler for Under the Skin!
The Panic Pixies discuss the film The Witch with fellow podcaster and film buff Dr. Kino. Which of us finds it scary, and why?
Content Warnings: Death, Death of Children, Infanticide, Violence, Stabbing, Murder, Gory Imagery, Mental Illness, Depression, Trauma, Misogyny, Ageism, Child Sexual Abuse, Incest, Adolescent Sexuality, Nudity, Puberty, Virginity, Menstruation, Breastfeeding, Vomiting, Sexual Exploitation, Family Breakdown, Religious Extremism, Christianity, Catholicism, Biblical References, Witchcraft, The Devil, Demonic Possession.
The Panic Pixie Scream Girls discuss 2005 film The Descent (Neil Marshall) with a guest. Looking at horror and anxiety and some great films.
Content warnings: Mental health Anxiety and depression OCD Intrusive thoughts Low self-esteem Phobias Arachnophobia Claustrophobia Grief and bereavement Trauma Climate anxiety Parenting Childbirth Breastfeeding Foetuses Menstruation Infidelity Death of a child Death of a spouse Vomiting Blood Graphic injury detail Graphic violence Cannibalism/flesh eating Car crash Racism Racial othering Colonialism Eugenics
Panic Pixie Scream Girls is a podcast about Horror film enthusiasts who have anxiety. Holly and Becky discuss how their own experiences relate to the films they love. In this episode they talk about the 1973 film by Nicholas Roeg 'Don't Look Now'.
Content warnings: Grief, Bereavement, Funerals, Dead Bodies, Death of a Child, Drowning, Murder, Description of Strong Bloody Violence, Mental Illness, Anxiety, OCD, Ableism, Ghosts, Christianity/Christian, Iconography, Sexual References (not explicit).
Guest episode. Hear the Panic Pixies on other people's podcasts!
The Panic Pixies Holly & Becky chat to Dr Kino in his Film Emporium. On his podcast Dr Kino asks his guests to pick an under rated or under the radar film, we picked Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise. We have a lot of fun, talk about some of our favourite films and a bit about our film history. Have a listen!
A podcast discussing the film 'Hereditary' through the lens of anxiety and mental health.
Content warnings - Mental illness, OCD, group therapy, dissociation, grief and bereavement, hysteria, gaslighting Abortion Autism, disability and ableism Death, dead bodies, funerals, death of a child, disease Blood, attempted child murder, cannibalism, animal mutilation, Satanism, cults, demonic possession
Panic Pixie Scream Girls is a podcast by two people living with anxiety and a love of horror movies. They explore the relationship between the two and the deeper meaning behind why we love to be scared. Also how does this intersect with gender and feminine experience? In this first episode Holly and Becky discuss the film 'It Follows' and their own emotional responses to it. Content Warnings: Sexual Assault, Rape Culture, Date Rape, Victim Blaming, Incest, Sex Work (Demonisation of), Anxiety, Trauma, Dissociation, Hyper-vigilance, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Fear of Sex, Voyeurism, Menstruation
Holly and Becky have a chat about their forthcoming podcast and the reasons behind doing it. They talk anxiety, horror films, feminism and even Cagney & Lacey! Panic Pixie Scream Girls is a podcast about two horror fans who live with anxiety and wish to explore their love for scary films, and how that relates to our lived experiences, gender and feminism. Content warnings: Brief discussion of OCD, anxiety and depression, paranoia and hypervigilance, fear of death. Brief mention of sexual/gender-based violence, abuse, torture, violence.