Oct 30, 2023

This week on ILL REPUTE! the podcast, Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre discuss the book Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover and what the Final Girl trope in slasher films tells us about how we feel about men, women, and violence. 

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Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover

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Script by Sovereign...

Oct 23, 2023

For the next two weeks ILL REPUTE! takes a break from Hedy Lamarr to celebrate Spooky Season. This week Ela Darling and Sovereign Syre deliver a quick and dirty history of horror films....and Ela celebrates her 14th porniversary. From Nosferaturu to the Final Girl, we plot out the trajectory of one of the most popular...

Oct 16, 2023

This week, Ela Darling continues to teach Sovereign Syre about Hedy Lamarr. It's the early thirties and the precocious teenager is a rising star in Austrian cinema. After convincing her parents to let her run off to Prague by herself, she is given the starring role in Ecstasy, an erotic masterpiece about a young,...

Oct 9, 2023

In 1933, an unknown actress starred in one of the most controversial films every made. Ecstasy was a Czech erotic romantic drams directed by Gustav Machaty that went on to be banned in multiple countries for the nude scenes featuring a then 17 year old Hedy Lamarr and it's frank depictions of female pleasure....

Oct 2, 2023

In 1809, Sarah Baartman, an indentured servant from South Africa, was smuggled into England. She was put on display as the "Hottentot Venus" in Picadilly Square. Dressed in an elaborate costume of next to nothing, she sang and danced, while European onlookers gawked. Abolitionists at the time, saw her treatment...