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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The Bath Tub Scene We spent the first half of September with discussions of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (listen) and Colm McCarthy’s The Girl With All the Gifts (listen) before celebrating our 300th episode (and the start of a six-week theme on Divas/Anniversaries) with a revisit of Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (listen). Next up: Nicole Kidman in Jonathan Glazer‘s […]
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“Needs moar bewbs.” After kicking September off with discussions of Tim Burton’s classic Beetlejuice (listen) and the modern zombie film The Girl With All the Gifts (listen), we’ve finally reached our 300th episode! To celebrate this milestone, we’re doing a 6-week theme month of Diva/Anniversary worship (running all the way through Halloween), and we’re starting by revisiting a […]
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Hungries Trace and I spent August discussing Paul Morrissey’s melodramatic Blood for Dracula (listen), Julia Ducournau’s body horror Titane (listen), and Stephen Herek’s family creature feature Critters (listen) before kicking off September with Tim Burton’s ode to weird, Beetlejuice (listen). For episode 299, we’ve hopped across the pond to tackle director Colm McCarthy‘s under seen contemporary zombie […]
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Kill Krites. After kicking off August with discussions of Paul Morrissey’s Udo Kier-starring vehicle Blood for Dracula (listen) and Julia Ducournau’s confronting Raw follow-up Titane (listen), we’re dialing things back a bit with a comfort watch of Stephen Herek‘s 1986 cult classic (and franchise originator) Critters! Critters sees an fuzzy alien race known as the Krites flee a prison […]
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Metal Baby August has been a wild ride so far. Between art house discussions of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre (listen) and Paul Morrissey’s Blood for Dracula (listen), we squeezed in a look at screenlife sequel Unfriended: Dark Web (listen). Now we’re ready for more contemporary foreign content with Julia Ducournau‘s sophomore feature, Titane (2021). In the film, after […]
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