Podcast
Final Girl After Dark
Final Girl After Dark is the weekly late-night companion to Stacie Ponder's long-running horror blog Final Girl. Join Stacie (and her occasional guests) as she pulls back the venetian blinds to explore her horror movie obsessions, from the trashy to the terrifying and the obscure to the iconic.
- Episodes
- 37
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 53 min
- On air since
- 2025
- Latest episode
- 2 months ago
Episodes
37 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 41 min
It's a Mailbag!
Season 1
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It's a Mailbag!
That's right, you asked questions and in this episode, Stacie goes on and on AND ON answering. Also within, the subject reveal for the forthcoming first season of Final Girl After Dark 2.0!
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7 min
L'update
Season 1
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Just a wee update on the haps concerning Final Girl After Dark in the wake of the show's one-year anniversary!
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40 min
Episode 33 -- REC and REC 2
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Episode 33 -- REC and REC 2
Final Girl After Dark returns with a look at the Spanish found footage flicks REC (2007) and REC 2 (2009)! What makes a great found footage film? Why are dystopias actually so boring? These questions plus MAMAMOO wormholes, the devil's midi-chlorians, and more within. Show notes, etc available at http://finalgirlafterdark.com.
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42 min
Episode 32 -- CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)
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Episode 32 -- Clash of the Titans (1981)
This week, Stacie dives into the myth of the ultimate nepo baby with a look at the 1981 fantasy classic Clash of the Titans! Vengeful gods, delightful witches, misunderstood gorgons, the magic of Ray Harryhausen, everyday heroes, and the Kraken are all ready to be released into your earholes. Show notes, etc available at http://FinalGirlAfterDark.com
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45 min
Episode 31 -- THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969)
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Episode 31 -- THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED
This week, Stacie is chopping wood, dodging cars, and taking a wicked look at The House That Screamed (aka La residencia), _NAN;_Narciso Ibañez Serrador's tale of repression in a strict boarding school for wayward girls.
Show notes and more available at https://www.finalgirlafterdark.com!
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53 min
Episode 30 -- APRIL FOOL'S DAY (1986)
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Episode 30 -- April Fool's Day (1986)
No jokes here, just a look at a movie positively dribbling with jokes (and jerks): April Fool's Day (1986)! Join Stacie as she dives into the dark undercurrents of the film, the dark undercurrents of her awkward social interactions, as well as a special announcement. Find show notes and more at http://www.finalgirlafterdark.com.
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51 min
Episode 29 -- EYES OF LAURA MARS
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Episode 29 -- EYES OF LAURA MARS
This week, Stacie steps into Faye Dunaway's cape and takes a peep through the Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)! Summerisle fantasies, noted fashion photographers, fussy men, difficult women, and more await, so take a twirl around the maypole. After all, there's always room for giallo!
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1 hr 20 min
Episode 28 -- THE NIGHT WALKER
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Episode 28 -- THE NIGHT WALKER
This week, Final Girl After Dark spirals with William Castle's The Night Walker (1964)! Melted husbands, Darth Vader chairs, men made out of dreams, and more await...so join Stacie as she wades into rivers of blood to try to parse queer history, history history, and whether or not we really know anything at all.
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1 hr 7 min
Episode 27 -- RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY
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Episode 27 -- RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY
This week, Stacie returns from her vacation and returns to her Resident Evil fevered state for a look at Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)! How many Easter eggs can a woman point out before she is driven completely mad? Let this episode in-a your window to find out. Show notes and more available at http://www.finalgirlafterdark.com
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43 min
Episode 26 -- IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
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Episode 26 -- IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
This week, Stacie welcomes the Old Ones and wonders if there's a downside to being a monster with a look at John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1995)!
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38 min
Episode 25 -- EVENT HORIZON
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Episode 25 -- EVENT HORIZON
This week, Stacie gets cosmic with Paul WS Anderson's spooky sci-fi flick Event Horizon (1997)! Listen along as she confronts the terrors of everyday life, haunted houses with jets on them, black holes, nothingness, and mantis shrimp. Does she finally get Lovecraft?
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1 hr 21 min
Episode 24 -- RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, RETRIBUTION, and THE FINAL CHAPTER
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Episode 24 -- RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION, and RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER
This week, Stacie caps her journey through the Resident Evil film series with a look at Afterlife (2010), Retribution (2012), and The Final Chapter (2017). Night of 1000 Millas, shootout fatigue, clone fatigue, JILL VALENTINE, turbine justice, vest messaging, and a final ranking of the 6 films await!
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1 hr 9 min
Episode 23 -- RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE and EXTINCTION
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Episode 23 -- RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE and RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION
This week, Stacie tackles two movies and many iterations of Umbrella Pharmaceutical's super weapon Alice in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)! Birdemics, rubber monster suits, water bubbles, more computers and lasers and squiggle tubes, and most importantly, JILL VALENTINE all have their moments to shine. Will we survive the franchise?
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48 min
Episode 22 -- RESIDENT EVIL (2002)
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Episode 22 -- RESIDENT EVIL (2002)
This week, Stacie delivers a roundhouse kick to 2026 with a look at Paul WS Anderson's 2002 film Resident Evil, a big, dumb movie that is big, dumb fun. Sausage lovers, squiggle tubes, lasers, video games, and computer gore await in this, uh, queer horror masterpiece...? Will we survive the horror? Or will we all die down there? Tune and find out!
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51 min
Episode 21 -- THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE
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Episode 21 -- THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE
Final Girl After Dark returns, finally, with a look at André Øvredal's spooky, stellar 2016 film The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Forgotten potatoes, buttery voices, wild turkey-coding, trauma, secrets, and do-nothing chaos await within! Links-n-notes-n-things at http://FinalGirlAfterDark.com.
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1 hr 1 min
Episode 20: THE BABYSITTER (2017) with Keezy Young
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Episode 20 -- THE BABYSITTER (2017)
There's a guest in the Manor this week as Stacie is joined by Keezy Young, the writer/illustrator behind the recent horror graphic novel Hello Sunshine, to discuss the 2017 film The Babysitter and much more, including psychosis vs psychopathy, the horror genre's depictions of severe mental illness, storytelling techniques in comics, and acceptable kinds of zombies. Learn more about Keezy's work at http://www.keezyyoung.com.
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49 min
Episode 19 -- PROM NIGHT (1980)
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Episode 19 -- PROM NIGHT (1980)
This week, Stacie succumbs to disco madness and takes a look at the 1980 slasher film Prom Night, starring FInal Girl icon Jamie Lee Curtis! Getcherself out on the light-up dance floor and listen in as your host tries to figure out just what it is she loves so much about slasher flicks anyway.
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1 hr 24 min
Episode 18 -- HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE
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Episode 18 -- HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE
Stacie finally returns to the halls of Stately Final Girl Manor to discuss the 1964 shocker Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte! From Joan Crawford's antics to Bette Davis's outsized performance to Agnes Moorehead's even more outsized to performance to Olivia de Havilland trying to stay grounded amongst the chaos, this film is the grandest entry in the annals of Grand Dame Guignol cinema.
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10 min
A Wee Update
Season 1
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A WEE UPDATE
Final Girl After Dark will resume regular programming next week; This week, Stacie gives a wee update to pretty much just say that!
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57 min
Episode 17 -- THE CAR
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Episode 17 -- THE CAR
This week, Stacie begins her SHOCKtober celebrations by slipping behind the wheel of The Car (1977)! James Brolin, a slew of character actors, and Kim and Kyle Richards of television's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills might survive when a killer possessed car rolls into their tiny desert town, but what will be left of them? Honk honk honk honnnk!
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