Ignore your girlfriend… The last few weeks have been dominated by older texts: from 1975’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (listen) to Misery on its 35th anniversary (listen) to the 1977 religious chiller The Sentinel (listen). And while 2012 is quickly creeping up on 15 years, there’s still a lot that feels modern about Josh […]
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She went to a party with eight dead murderers… After wrapping up November with a look at one of the most controversial films ever made in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (listen) and delving back into the world of Stephen King with Misery (listen), we’re kicking off December with an oft-requested pick from our […]
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Nothing is more contagious than evil… After kicking off November with a look at James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen) and the Kate Hudson-starring The Skeleton Key (listen), we’re finally(?) tackling one of the most controversial films ever made for its 50th anniversary: Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). In Salò, four wealthy, corrupt libertines (a […]
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After spending the last few weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (listen), Jack Nicholson’s commanding performance in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen), and a timely discussion of James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen), we needed some mid-aughts comfort food. Enter Iain Softley’s 2005 film The Skeleton Key, a Southern Gothic tale about Caroline (Kate Hudson), an impressionable […]
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It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s aliiiiiiiiiive! After wrapping up October with a look at the queer-leaning throuple in Killer Klowns From Outer Space (listen), the shifting genres of J.A. Bayona’s The Orphanage (listen), and the feminist(ish) antics of George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen), we’re kicking off November with a celebration of the Netflix […]
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Scary Sad. Horror Queers Podcast has spent October celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), 50 years of Cronenberg’s feature debut Shivers (listen) and the ingenuity of the Chiodo Brothers’ Killer Klowns from Outer Space (listen). Now we’re closing out scary season with a classic contemporary ghost story with J.A. Bayona‘s The Orphanage (2007). In the […]
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Taxpayer Funded Sex Slugs. After wrapping up September with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (listen), debating the merits of The Strangers: Chapter 1 (listen) and celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), it’s time for a David Cronenberg milestone: 50 years since his genre feature film debut, Shivers (1975). In the film, Starliner Tower is an exclusive, isolated […]
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Ice, ice, baby…. After wrapping up September with a look at the fowl queerness of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (listen) and debating the perils of reviewing 1/3 of a movie in The Strangers: Chapter 1 (listen), we’re kicking off October with a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Gus Van Sant‘s biting satire To Die […]
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1/3 of a Movie. After celebrating our 350th episode with From Dusk Till Dawn (listen), revisiting Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic anime Akira (listen), and stopping over in Bodega Bay for Alfred Hitchcock‘s The Birds (listen), Trace and I have opened the Horror Queers Patreon vault to release our full-length episode on Renny Harlin‘s The Strangers: Chapter 1. […]
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Spoilers for Episode 8 (“The Real Monsters”) of Alien: Earth to follow. It’s finale time for Noah Hawley‘s Alien: Earth and all Trace and I can say about the ending is that this better only be the season one finale because we need another season ASAP. Written by Hawley & Migizi Pensoneau, “The Real Monsters” starts […]
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Go To The Fucking Boiler Room. After seven weeks of our Icons and Anniversaries theme, which included titles like Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (listen), Kevin S. Tenney’s Night of the Demons (listen), and Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (listen), we’re ready to wrap things up with Wes Craven‘s iconic slasher entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In the […]
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Now, a warning. After wrapping up October with discussions of horror classics like Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (listen) and Kevin S. Tenney’s Night of the Demons (listen), we’re checking in with two of cinema’s fiercest divas in Robert Zemeckis‘ Death Becomes Her (1992). In Death Becomes Her, novelist Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) loses […]
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Weirdo Angela Our run of Gay Icons and Anniversaries continues. After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen), Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), and Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas (listen), we’re celebrating Halloween early with Kevin S. Tenney‘s Night of the Demons (1988). In the film, Judy (Cathy Podewell) is […]
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Bitchin’ Barb. After kicking off October with discussions of David Fincher’s Gone Girl (listen) and Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), we’re tackling another juggernaut of horror history with a look at Bob Clark‘s Black Christmas. Black Christmas follows sorority sisters Jess (Olivia Hussey), Barb (Margot Kidder) and Phyl (Andrea Martin) as they begin to […]
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Pike-y perfection. After closing out September with a re-do of Jennifer’s Body (listen), a film we covered in one of our earliest episodes, and a discussion of Jonathan Glazer’s controversial Birth (listen), we’re continuing our theme of Anniversary/Diva Worship with a look at David Fincher‘s Gone Girl (2014). Gone Girl sees Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), the inspiration […]
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