Scooby Doo and the gang been taught us, y'all: the monsters are (almost) always human. That's our trope this week on ScaryCrit, with Lauren and Jared taking a look at one of the most harrowing horror/suspense films in recent memory, The Boy Behind the Door (2020). A vicious juxtaposition of violence against innocence, this Crit explores the intersectionality that instigates Bobby and Kevin's precarious situation as they try to get out of it, the film's genius, subversive handling of audience expectation and how absolutely dark this trope can be.
Trigger warning: like the film it covers, this episode contains discussion of violence against children. Listening discretion is advised.
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Timestamps
09:20 - Negronomicon
46:17 - Crit
02:05:17 - Final Curls
Gems from E83
- Vespertine (Björk, 2001, album)
- SOS (SZA, 2023, album)
- Creed III (2023)
- The Blackening (2023)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Think Like a Man (2012)
- Barbershop (2002)
- Taxi (2004)
- Shaft (2019)
- Ride Along (2014)
- Girl’s Trip (2017)
- Harlem (2021)
- The Upshaws (2021)
- Amber Ruffin Show (2020)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
- The First Wives Club (2019)
- Little (2019)
- Wild n’ Out (2005)
- Saved by the Bell (2020)
- Scream (2022)
- Creed (2015)
- Creed II (2018)
- Rocky (1976, film series)
- iRobot (2004)
- Aladdin (2019)
- Wild Wild West (1999)
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
- Attack the Block (2011)
- Pacific Rim (2013)
- Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
- Akira (1988)
- Nope (2022)
- Black Panther (2018)
- Fruitvale Station (2013)
- Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (1969)
- X-Men (2000)
- Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
- Pom Poko (1994)
- Dragon Ball Z (1989)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Queen & Slim (2018)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, 2003, Print)
- The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
- The Lovely Bones (2008)
- The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
- To Catch a Predator (2004)
- Law and Order: SVU (1999)
- The Shining (1990)
- True Blood (2008)
- Precious (2009)
- The People Under the Stairs (1991)
- Rancid Cargo (2023, fan film)
- Dead Space (2008, video game)
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