This week Nikki and Kate watched Infinity Pool and discussed Nepo Babies, emotional substance vs. viscous substances, and twenty twenty splits.

Note: This film unlocked a feral energy and as such there is some audio clipping. They’ll monitor their levels more rigorously should a future recording also contain unprecedented primal energy.

Rated NC-17 or R

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, bodily fluids (all of them), vomit, gun violence, car crash, a head is squashed, cutting, flashing lights/images, mentions of rape, someone struggling to breathe, torture, broken bone, eye mutilation, trypophobia, jump scares, anxiety attack, shakey cam, antisemitic caricature.

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Show Notes:

Konnikova, Maria. (2014, December 10). Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens

Lathan, Nadia. (2023, September 20). 50 years after being outlawed, redlining still drives neighborhood health inequities. UC Berkeley Public Health. https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/spotlight/research/50-years-after-being-outlawed-redlining-still-drives-neighborhood-health-inequities

Mimbela, Ricardo & Akselrod, Olga. (2024, May 30). The Long History of Discrimination in Job Hiring Assessments. ACLU. https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/the-long-history-of-discrimination-in-job-hiring-assessments

Rank, Mark R. & Eppard, Lawrence M. (2021, March 13). The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is broken. Look at the numbers. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/13/american-dream-broken-upward-mobility-us

Wikipedia Editors. Social mobility. Wikipedia. Accessed on Jan 7, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility

Wikipedia Editors. Nepo baby. Accessed on Jan 7, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepo_baby

Cambridge Dictionary. Accessed on Jan 7, 2026. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/nepotism

This week Nikki and Kate watched Blood Quantum and discussed the complicated history behind the title, wide shots and disorienting camera angles, and how they’d unalive each other in the event of zombification.

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, gun violence, eyeball mutilation, the dog dies (at least twice), a head is smashed, cutting, death by suicide, death of a baby, death of a child, vomiting, racism, slurs

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Sources:

Cameron, Michael. (2021, July 13). On The Marrow Thieves and Blood Quantum: A conversation with Krista Collier-Jarvis. Dalhousie University. https://blogs.dal.ca/openthink/on-the-marrow-thieves-and-blood-quantum-a-conversation-with-krista-collier-jarvis/

TIFF. (2022, November 22). Jeff Barnaby on a Shared Love of Horror in BLOOD QUANTUM | From Studio 9. Original interview 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohALDgihso

Blood Quantum and Sovereignty: A Guide. https://nativegov.org/resources/blood-quantum-and-sovereignty-a-guide/

Rule, Elizabeth. (2018, February 7). It’s Not Just About the Blood. As quoted in NPR’s Code Switch. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/583753149

Maher, Savannah. (2018, February 7). The Difficult Math Of Being Native American. NPR’s Code Switch.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/02/07/583665568/love-and-blood-quantum-buy-in-or-die-out

This week Nikki and Kate watched The Amityville Horror (1979) and discussed 1970s fashion, the Based on a True Story Effect, and the fulfilling of the demon pig prophecy.

Rated

Content warnings:

Blood, gore, audio gore, bugs, intimate partner violence, child abuse, finger mutilation, a head is squashed, death of a child, jump scares, vomit, claustrophobia, panic attack, car crash, gun violence

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Our intro and outro music is Spooky Drill by AlisiaBeats and the cover art is by Nikki Solomon

Sources:

Radford, Benjamin. (2005, April 8). Voice of Reason: The Truth Behind the Amityville Horror. LiveScience. https://www.livescience.com/6962-voice-reason-truth-amityville-horror.html

Vassar, Shea. (2020, October 15). Digging Up the Indian Burial Ground Trope. Film School Rejects. https://filmschoolrejects.com/indian-burial-ground-trope/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110707133921/http://www.amityvillemurders.com/catholic.html

https://amityvillemurders.com/the-haunting/lutz-vs-weber.html