Dracula

Ep. 337: Keva York on Locarno 2025: Dracula, Legend of the Happy Worker, plus The Seasons

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week I’m reporting from the Locarno film festival, which annually rolls out an adventuresome sale of films. For my latest episode I’m joined by Keva York, a critic and an editor of the festival’s Pardo publication. Titles discussed include the highly anticipated Dracula (directed by Radu Jude), Legend of the Happy Worker (Duwayne Dunham), and The Seasons (Maureen Fazendeiro). Ambient sound is courtesy of our recording location, the lounge of the GranRex cinema, one of the festival’s venues.

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Ep. 337: Keva York on Locarno 2025: Dracula, Legend of the Happy Worker, plus The Seasons

Narration from Bram Stoker's Dracula featuring dialogue between the characters Dracula and Jonathan Harker.

Dustin Friedman Dracula Mix 01.00_08.11.2025m

The Death Ship

From Get Out to The Babadook to Saint Maud: In his new book, Josh Gooch uses the horror film genre to expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism, drawing connections between Marxist theory and contemporary narratives of psychological unease. Here, Gooch is joined in conversation with Jo Isaacson. This episode contains spoilers for multiple films (list below).


Joshua Gooch is professor of English at D’Youville University in Buffalo, New York. He is author of Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film; Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity and The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy.

Johanna Isaacson is professor of English at Modesto Junior College and author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror. 


EPISODE REFERENCES:
Sianne Ngai
Michael Löwy / “critical irrealism”
Linda Williams on Psycho, essay in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho: A Casebook
Søren Mau
Nancy Fraser
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Silvia Federici
Amitav Ghosh
Kim Stanley Robinson
Jason W. Moore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Sophie Lewis
M. E. O’Brien
Kathi Weeks
Lauren Berlant


FILMS DISCUSSED:
Psycho
Dracula
Nosferatu
Candyman
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell
Joe Lynch’s Mayhem
Robert Eggers’s The Witch
Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I Blame Society
Rose Glass’s Saint Maud
Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook
Ari Aster’s Hereditary
Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Jordan Peele’s Get Out
Jordan Peele’s Us
Mariame Diallo’s Master
Tim Story’s The Blackening
Timothy Covell’s Blood Conscious
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance
Romero’s Night of the Living Dead
Lamberti Bava’s Demons
The Ring
Jeremy Saulnier’s Murder Party
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining


Praise for the book:
"Fiercely smart." —Annie McClanahan, author of Dead Pledges

"This is a book not just for fans of horror but for everyone interested in the ways films embed and communicate values, judgments, and affects." —Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, author of Gothic Things



Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by Joshua Gooch is available from University of Minnesota Press. Thank you for listening.

Capitalism Hates You: Horror film and Marxist theory.

dracula

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Dracula's Castle (Castlevania - Symphony of the Night) - Video Game Stages of History - Track 10

Thirty Thirsty (Thirteeeeeen Series).
Cool Little Tongue Twister, Try Saying It Fast? Back To The Technostep Folks, Bit Of Rhythmical Drum Groove For You All, & As I Always Say All The Uptempo Elements You Gonna Need For Any Day Of The Week?

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Funny story. Originally i wanted to finish between 2019 and 2020, but only now i have decided to finish that song before summer is over and i will get isolation. So do you remember Space Funeral Dracula Scene, I'm sligthly don't, but glad that vinny vinesauce got voice acting simmilar Dracula, but in one ENA's game.
Dracula: "I like to drink blood and the smoke weed!"

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Space Funeral - Penguin Dance (Mother 3 Soundfont)

The legend rises...  into the Bloodline legacy
Once a holy knight, forsaken by God and cursed by Heaven, he defied angels, death, and fate itself — only to be bound in shadow for eternity. This is the story of Dracula, the eternal scourge, the lord of the night.

Wallachian Bloodline - Dracula

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