Throw everything you know about haunted dolls out the window - today we’re unboxing Chucky, the toy that’ll be your friend till the end (of your life) in 1988’s Child’s Play.

***CONTENT WARNING: mention of sexual assault

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Sources:

• Cabbage Patch riots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage_Patch_riots

• Child’s Play IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/trivia/

• Child’s Play Reflects on the Gendered Panic of Boys n Dolls by Alison Stine: https://www.salon.com/2022/10/06/chucky-childs-play-boys-dolls-gender/

• Child’s Play Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1988_film)
  

Today we explore where nostalgia and dissociation meet in 2024 metaphorical masterpiece I Saw the TV Glow.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of gender dysphoria, transphobia, repression, abuse, suicide

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Sources:

• 'I Saw the TV Glow' director breaks down that emotional ending, teases potential sequel by Patrick Ryan: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2024/05/18/i-saw-the-tv-glow-ending-explained/73672439007/
• ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ Director Jane Schoenbrun Shares a Theory for Why We’re So Nostalgic for the ’90s by Chris O’Falt: https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/i-saw-the-tv-glow-jane-schoenbrun-90s-nostalgia-hauntology-1235002972/
• ISTTVG IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15574270/
• I Saw the TV Glow’s Ending Is Full of Hope, If You Want It to Be by Emily St. James: https://www.vulture.com/article/the-hidden-hope-in-i-saw-the-tv-glows-ending-explained.html
• I Saw the TV Glow Stars Address Trans Allegories of A24 Film by Jeremy Dick: https://www.cbr.com/i-saw-the-tv-glow-justice-smith/
• ISSTV Transcript: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024-transcript/
• ISTTVG Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Saw_the_TV_Glow
• New Yorker article: Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home by Holden Seidlitz: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/jane-schoenbrun-finds-horror-close-to-home

Pre-Homecoming checklist:

• Ditch plans with your mom who’s really into community theater

• Flirt with the cute guy on the football team

• Switch bodies back with a raging serial killer by getting possession of a powerful blade with questionable origins before midnight

Find out if Millie is stuck as the Blissfield Butcher forever in 2020’s Freaky.

***CONTENT WARNING: implied sexual violence

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Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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Sources:

• Freaky (2020) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaky_(film)
• Freaky (2020) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919380/
• ​​Freaky Friday. Directed by Gary Nelson, Walt Disney Productions, 1976.
• "Philemon and Baucis." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 Aug. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baucis_and_Philemon.
  Pulver, Andrew. "Freaky Review – Wildly Entertaining Body-Swap Comedy Horror." The Guardian, 11 Nov. 2020, www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/11/freaky-review-wildly-entertaining-body-swap-comedy-horror.