Rope-a-dope. After queering up the castle in James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein, we got cosmic with Adam Egypt Mortimer’s outstanding imaginary friend tale Daniel Isn’t Real before getting hot in the 1981 parody Student Bodies. Now we’re going back in time again to check in with the sociopathic (and possibly definitely queer) duo in Alfred Hitchcock‘s […]
Author: Trace Thurman
Why ‘Student Bodies’ Gets Us Hot [Horror Queers Podcast]
Do you need to insurance boobs? After queering up the castle in James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein, we got cosmic with Adam Egypt Mortimer’s outstanding imaginary friend tale Daniel Isn’t Real. Now we need something that’ll really get us hot, and the 1981 parody Student Bodies just might do the trick! In the film, an anonymous […]
‘Fear Street’ Co-Writer Phil Graziadei Talks Queer Representation with the Horror Queers! [Podcast]
Queer Street. It’s not often that a popular IP gets adapted with explicit queer content added in, but that’s exactly what happened with Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, a groundbreaking event that puts two queer characters front-and-center in a major horror release. Now that all three films have been released, we’re releasing a spoiler-filled interview with the […]
The Standout Set Pieces in the ‘Saw’-lite ‘Escape Room’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Justice for Woll. After visiting the lovely, bitchy ladies of Sorority Row and enjoying the French countryside in Julia Ducournau’s cannibalistic debut film Raw, we’re celebrating the release of Escape Room: Tournament of Champions with a release of our exclusive Patreon episode of the original Escape Room! In the film, six adventurous strangers (Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, […]
Horrific Hazing Rituals and Multiple Metaphors in ‘Raw’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
A film that presupposes that women are people… After traveling to the Amazon to check in with the Creature From the Black Lagoon, we visited the lovely, bitchy ladies of Sorority Row before falling prey to a pimped-out tire iron. Now, we’re getting serious with a deep dive into Julia Ducournau‘s cannibalistic debut film Raw! In the film, […]