Open Ivory Tower Podcast

This stand-alone podcast is a short discussion of Ariel Schulman’s and Henry Joost’s 2016 epidemic horror film Viral. The film stars Analeigh Tipton (Warm Bodies), Sofia Black D’Elia (Project Almanac), and Travis Tope (The Town That Dreaded Sundown [2014]) and follows two sisters’ attempt to survive both the impending apocalypse and lethal military intervention. This podcast looks at how this specific kind of epidemic horror functions in the broader landscape of the genre, and what the possible significance is for specific types of disease vectors in cinema. For more on bugs in horror, see my blog post here. To help support to my blog/podcast, you can find my Patreon here. References and Further Reading Benshoff, Harry M. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997. Print. Clarens, Carlos. An Illustrated History of the Horror Film. New York: Putnam, 1979. Print. Cornea, Christine. Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutge