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Merry Christmas, Happy Solstice and Joyous Holiday to one and all! This month your favorite ghouls are discussing avant-garde and new wave queer cinema director, Curtis Harrington's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972). Grab yourself a gingerbread man and eat up this deliciously campy hagsploitation Christmas film!\n\nTrigger warnings: child abuse, child death, Vietnam War, fat shaming, and menopause.\n\nThanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com\n\nBLM & TLM: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ & https://translifeline.org/donate/\n\nResources:\n\nWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) by She Blogged by Night (Stacia)\nhttps://shebloggedbynight.com/2016/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1972/ \n\nWhen the Woman Screams: Who Slew Auntie Roo (1971)\nhttps://wordpress.lehigh.edu/screams/2020/02/17/who-slew-auntie-roo-1971/\n\nA Look at Joan Crawford and the Gay Icon Phenomenon by Sara Clements\nhttps://medium.com/@saraclements/a-look-at-joan-crawford-and-the-gay-icon-phenomenon-b8172f20e3e0 \n\nWhy Gays Fell In Love With These Original Shock Queens By Anthony Uzarowski\nhttps://www.queerty.com/why-gays-fell-in-love-with-these-original-shock-queens-20160123 \n\nRetro Review: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? By Dana Vargas\nhttps://www.macabredaily.com/articles/retro-review-who-slew-auntie-roo\n\nWho Slew Auntie Roo? Review by Nathaniel Thompson for TCM\nhttps://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95729/who-slew-auntie-roo#articles-reviews\n\nWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Wikipedia\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoever_Slew_Auntie_Roo%3F\n\nWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) Review by Michi\nhttps://randommoviemusings.com/2019/09/24/whoever-slew-auntie-roo-1971/amp/\n\nA PRIMER FOR THE UNEXPECTEDLY AWESOME HAGSPLOITATION HORROR SUBGENRE By Rebecca Pahl\nhttps://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/a-primer-for-the-unexpectedly-awesome-hagsploitation-horror-subgenre?amp\n\n10 Grand Hagsploitation Horror Movies\nhttps://filmschoolrejects.com/best-hagsploitation-horror-movies/?amp\n\nTHE HAGSPLOITATION, GRAND DAME GUIGNOL & THE PSYCHO-BIDDY HORROR SUBGENRE by Wynn\nhttps://mubi.com/lists/the-hagsploitation-grand-dame-guignol-the-psycho-biddy-horror-subgenre\n\n\u2018Hagsploitation\u2019: horror\u2019s obsession with older women returns by Anne Billson\nhttps://amp.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/18/hagsploitation-horrors-obsession-with-older-women-returns\n\nPsycho-biddy: Gender in Horror Films Wikipedia\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_horror_films\n\n\nMENOPAUSAL MANIACS: A HAG HORROR WATCHLIST\nhttps://rue-morgue.com/menopausal-maniacs-a-hag-horror-watchlist/\n\nDollar Double Feature: Christmas Horror: Rabid (1977) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? By GG Graham\nhttps://wickedhorror.com/features/editorials/dollar-double-feature-christmas-horror-rabid-1977-and-whoever-slew-auntie-roo/\n\nJudy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana \u2013 Tragic Gay Icons\nhttps://josephsciambra.com/judy-garland-marilyn-monroe-princess-diana-tragic-gay-icons/\n\nWhy Do Gay Men Historically Adopt Female Stars as Their Icons? By Trevor Martin\nhttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-do-gay-men-historical_b_3895070/amp \n\nhttp://www.horrorhomeroom.com/hereditary-grief-and-motherhood/ \n\nMaternal Horror Films: Understanding the \u2018Dysfunctional\u2019 Mother\nhttps://the-artifice.com/maternal-horror-films-dysfunctional-mother/ \n\nWhen Santa Was a Woman: 5 Christmas Histories You Want to Know By Sivan\nhttp://www.revivingherstory.com/rhblog/2014/12/16/when-santa-was-a-woman-5-christmas-histories-you-want-to-know \n\nWho is the Celtic Mother Goddess?\nhttp://www.digitalmedievalist.com/opinionated-celtic-faqs/mother/