The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast

Anna Bogutskaya

A weekly podcast dedicated to exploring horror film and TV history through a female lens.

  • 23 minutes 8 seconds
    BONUS • Julia Ducournau on the fictional disease of ALPHA

    A bonus exclusive interview with Julia Ducournau (Palme D'Or winning writer/director of Raw, Titane) about her new film Alpha, out in UK cinemas now.


    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya

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    Music: "Slasher" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

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    → Read Feeding the Monster

    19 November 2025, 8:00 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    MACHINES 26 • Unfriended (2014) + Searching (2018)

    After a short-ish break we return with author Lucy Rose to talk about two screenlife horrors: Unfriend (2014) and Searching (2018), starring everyone's favourite John Cho.

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    17 October 2025, 11:00 pm
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    MACHINES 25 • Ex Machina (2014)

    Film critic and host of The Losers' Club and The Lady Killers podcast, Jenn Adams, returns to talk about the Frankenstein movie of the 2010s: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014).

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    22 August 2025, 10:45 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    MACHINES 24 • Prometheus (2012) + Alien: Covenant (2017)

    The Independent's Chief Film Critic Clarisse Loughrey comes onboard the Alien space ship to mount a passionate defense of the Alien prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), and argue that it's the best adaptation of the Frankenstein myth. 

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    15 August 2025, 10:00 pm
  • 1 hour 53 minutes
    MACHINES 23 • Black Mirror (2011-)

    Horror scholar, writer and co-host of This Ends at Prom joins Anna to look at ourselves in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, covering the series themes and deep-diving into some iconic episodes like "San Junipero", "The National Anthem" and "USS Callister". 

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    8 August 2025, 10:00 pm
  • 1 hour 38 minutes
    MACHINES 22 • Pulse (2001) + One Missed Call (2003)

    Friend of the show, podcaster Steph McKenna joins Anna to discuss two cornerstone J-horrors: the internet ghosts of Pulse (2001) and the cursed voicemail of One Missed Call (2003).

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    1 August 2025, 10:45 pm
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    MACHINES 21 • Resident Evil (2002)

    Friend of the show Isaura Barbé-Brown and Anna clock in at the Umbrella Corporation to discuss the first Resident Evil (2002) and how it kickstarted the billion-dollar franchise starring Milla Jovovich. 

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    25 July 2025, 10:50 pm
  • 1 hour 44 minutes
    MACHINES 20 • Hollow Man (2000) + The Invisible Man (2020)

    This week, we’re stripping it all back (literally) with a look at two very different takes on invisibility, male ego, and coercion: Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man and Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, both reimagining H.G.Wells' classic tale of a mad scientist who discovers invisibility and then comes to regret it. Joining a very sick Anna is friend of the show Ruby McGuigan. 

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    18 July 2025, 10:55 pm
  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    MACHINES 19 • The Horrors of Y2K

     The early 2000s were many things: 9/11, camera phones, government surveillance, MSN Messenger, low-rise jeans, Big Brother and the most extra horror films you can think of. Author Kirsty Logan joins the podcast to go over what makes this moment in horror history so unique, by looking at a wave of horror films from the early 2000s that channelled the paranoia and confusion of the emerging digital age: My Little Eye (2002), The Collingswood Story (2002), Feardotcom (2002). 

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



    ***

    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    11 July 2025, 10:59 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    MACHINES 18 • Videodrome (1983) + ExistenZ (1999)

    As Charli XCX has declared: it's Cronenberg Summer. With his new film The Shrouds out in UK cinemas, we revisit two quintessential techno-body horror films from the Canadian master David Cronenberg. Joining Anna is the critic and author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials Violet Lucca. 

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



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    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    5 July 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    MACHINES 17 • The Matrix (1999)

    Plug into The Matrix with Anna and guest Becky Darke to discuss Y2K paranoia, long leather coats, the game-changing action scenes, and how hot everyone is in this film. 

    Read Emily St. James' excellent piece on The Matrix as a trans allegory

    New episode every Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd to see what films we're covering.

    Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya
    Research Assistant: Frankie Wakefield



    ***

    Music: "Neon Alley" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    ***

    The Final Girls are a UK-based film collective exploring horror film history through a feminine lens.

    → Support us on Patreon for bonus content.

    → Find out more about our projects here: thefinalgirls.co.uk

    → Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

    → Read Feeding the Monster

    19 June 2025, 11:00 pm
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