Episode 9: Heather Langenkamp BONUS CONTENT
Added 2024-01-08 15:00:08 +0000 UTCEpisode 9’s guest is Heather Langenkamp - actor, writer, producer, director, who famously defeated Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare On Elm Street. Heather is the ‘dream guest’ for our show – with her lead role in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street and several of its sequels. More recently, Heather can be seen in American Horror Story and Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club.
Heather Langenkamp has some strong, surprising views on horror films that you won’t want to miss. She reveals a nightmare about Freddy’s tongue, and talks about how sexual content in horror scenes can affect the participants subconsciously. Catherine concurs about hyper sexualised roles and how you don’t realise what you carry with you. Heather finds watching horror movies very hard, and speculates that some taboos in horror films can actually break the bonds that hold society together. She asks how James can process having to watch so many horror films. We find out why Heather can never take a relaxing bath, and how focusing on small things such as helps her block out the horrors of the real world. And we touch on Heather’s upcoming movies, including Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation, The Life of Chuck.
For this week’s Side Barb, Barbara is conjured by a very special song, and we play a game where Heather has to escape a nightmare of the hosts’ imagining.
Comments
We had no idea about that particular scene's affect on her, but definitely something that really sticks with her. Lovely guest - and thank you so much for subscribing - more very cool guests to come each week with extra material here.
2024-01-11 03:18:34 +0000 UTCAlso, I remember her talking about how that scene in New Nightmare was humiliating, but had no idea it had such a deep effect on her mind. I appreciate she doesn't blame any of the crew because she knows it was meant to lighten the mood and not malicious - but It is really eye opening that some things meant to be jokey can prove to awake things that end up being pretty harmful.
KissMyFlapjack
2024-01-10 16:29:07 +0000 UTCI love Heather. Could listen to her for hours and hours and hours. Her nightmare with Patricia Arquette is really fascinating - actually had not heard that story before. Thank you for this bonus content!!
KissMyFlapjack
2024-01-10 16:21:39 +0000 UTC
