Angela Carter
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Oct 30, 2026
Gar O'Brien CollinsGUEST
But this is filmed entirely in the UK then.
Gar O'Brien CollinsGUEST
It's again kind of looking at folklore but non-Irish, kind of reimagining Red Riding Hood, a tree with the works of Angela Carter.
Gar O'Brien CollinsGUEST
She had a collection called The Bloody Chamber and a radio play this was based on.
Gar O'Brien CollinsGUEST
So the filmmaker, unlike Deocast, is the only real Irish connection here, but they both provide a kind of interesting example for how Irish filmmaking and Irish horror filmmaking in general would go on.
Daniel FoxxGUEST
Caroline Duffy's done it.
Daniel FoxxGUEST
Angela Carter did it.
Daniel FoxxGUEST
There's this kind of like real history of kind of using that baseline of a thing that we all know.
Daniel FoxxGUEST
And you can do things with it, make it spooky, make it funny, make it adult, whatever it is.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
First of all, I mean, I love the Oscar Wilde literary fairy tales.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
He's a great example of the decadent movements kind of return to the fairy tale to reclaim its subversive moments to really look at kind of what was maybe magic in the fairy tales they draw from becomes occultism and really turning towards forbidden desires and this kind of individualism that sort of came about with the decadent movement.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
And there is an argument for looking at that as a unique point in time connected to the Gothic that then speaks forward to a lot of contemporary work from Angela Carter through Anne Sexton, through Francesca Leah Buck in the 2000s to Lottie Mills, who published an incredible volume called Monstrum today.
Michelle Anya AnjirbagGUEST
So Monstrum was published in 2024 by Lottie Mills, which does a lot of the same sort of unlocking and opening up the tales that Angela Carter did, but for a new generation, Francesca Lia Block wrote The Rose and the Beast in 2001, I believe was the publishing date for that.
Ryan TubridyHOST
That goes back to kind of a take on a fairy tale again.
Neil JordanGUEST
It'd be a bit like a James Stevens world, you know, through the mind of Angela Carter, really.
Neil JordanGUEST
But, you know, werewolves and all that sort of stuff.
Neil JordanGUEST
But to me, it's extraordinary that the only game in town at the moment seems to be the horror film.
Aaron KavanaghHOST
Where with Cherry Tree, and, you know, I know you mentioned that it's kind of an older song, but, you know, it seems to be kind of like, you know, using kind of mythological and sort of fairytale-y, you know, obviously, I mean, there's Red Riding Hood kind of framing of it.
Aaron KavanaghHOST
which kind of remind me of like, you know, someone like Angela Carter, you know, the writer, you know, she did like, you know, she would kind of like do these kind of like deconstructionist, kind of like feminist retellings of old fairy tales.
Aaron KavanaghHOST
And, you know, our most famous one, I think probably because there's a band name after it is Wolf Alice, which was about red riding hoods.
Aaron KavanaghHOST
That's kind of, When I was listening to the song, I was thinking of that short story in a way.
China MievilleGUEST
But also what interests me even more is that I can't find a correlation with the style of book.
China MievilleGUEST
Because, for example, if I read like Angela Carter, like to me, these feel in the most incredible possible way, like these kind of fever dreams that sort of immerse.
China MievilleGUEST
And you look at her notebooks, assiduous planner, down to the point, you know.
China MievilleGUEST
And it feels really counterintuitive to me.
Brent BamburyGUEST
I talked to John Cage.
Brent BamburyGUEST
I talked to Angela Carter, you know, Kathy Acker, all of these people that, that were, you know, superstars, Philip Glass, Laurie, Laurie Anderson, you know, they, all of those people I got to interview and, And I was just so young.
Brent BamburyGUEST
For me, it was like, oh, I'm living this program.
Brent BamburyGUEST
But at the same time, I'm bringing it to people who I think are interested in it.
Gray Robert BrownHOST
I'm not pretending that we're going to resolve that now and that that's something we can just continue talking about on the podcast.
Gray Robert BrownHOST
Do you know, there's an adapter who used to run The Globe called Emma Rice, who famously, her adaptations of Angela Carter novels were really, really well received into plays.
Gray Robert BrownHOST
But she said something about adaptation that always really stuck with me, which was that when asked about her process, she said that she would, she obviously came at it from a love of the piece, and she would reread the novel, put it down, recreate it as in like write her script with the story as a memory.
Gray Robert BrownHOST
And then she would go back to the source material and basically go, is there anything that I didn't remember that is worth including? And the point being that most nine times out of 10, if you don't recall it, then it probably didn't make that impression on you.
Georgia HumphreysHOST
And of course he comes home, sees the blood stained key and sort of like attempts to murder her.
Georgia HumphreysHOST
Very famously, this was kind of like recontextualized in the bloody chamber by Angela Carter, but that's very much something that infused a lot of those Gothic romances and in fiction and then in like the 1940s and 50s in Hollywood so something like Rebecca but you've also got like Dragonwick with Gene Turney and Vincent Price you've also got Gaslight which is sort of like literally the film that gave term to the term gaslighting in which a woman is driven insane in her home by her husband and she thinks that she's seeing things and you know he essentially wants to murder her to you know inherit her money um and through that sort of like domestic terror you've got the emergence of the double and the other as the 50s start to go on you have Hitchcock come in obviously with things like Rebecca but then starts to have more psychological thrillers that you know in the vein of Psycho but also Marnie you've got Robert Wise's The Haunting um And the Innocents, you've got Tennessee Williams and all the sort of like mad women of Southern Gothic that are occurring through A Streetcar Named Desire, Elizabeth Taylor and Suddenly Last Summer.
Georgia HumphreysHOST
And then as it starts to shift towards the 60s, you have this European art house with people like Bergman doing Persona, Cries and Whispers.
Georgia HumphreysHOST
And then it puts us perfectly in this place towards like the 60s and 70s where the Hays Code, the production code, which was the self-censorship which governed Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s, starts to lift.
SerenaHOST
So there's nine of them apparently and yeah they all have this nice pattern to them.
SerenaHOST
and i mean i haven't heard of a lot of them there's the yellow wallpapers in there and nights at the circus by angela carter and all the rest of them i've never heard of but you know what i want to go and find them now
RachelHOST
I love that as a series I was going to say to you I got another of the British Library anthology books we love them we do love them this one is insect horror so I was between these books are amazing it's just like a collection of stories based around usually a horror theme and I was between that and there's also a botanical horror one but I went for the insects in the end
SerenaHOST
that is going to be so creepy
Aslı TohumcuGUEST
There I realized that, you know, we don't have much retellings in Turkish, in Turkey.
Aslı TohumcuGUEST
So and then I met Angela Carter and then I met Susanna Clark and such stuff and I love reading in English and I started reading a lot of retellings and I said yeah that's That's something.
Aslı TohumcuGUEST
Because I was always writing in a very realistic way.
Aslı TohumcuGUEST
The men's violence, the threats, you know.
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