Sore Winners and Losers 2. Back in December, Trace and I opened up voting in the fourth annual “Hereditaries” (named after Toni Collette’s Hereditary omission), our version of the horror Oscars. Our supporters on Patreon helped us narrow down the shortlist in 18 categories and then the public at large, including folks on this site, voted on the […]
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Moore Milk, Please. After wrapping up 2022 with a discussion of Carter Smith’s Into the Dark entry “Midnight Kiss“, we kicked off 2023 with a re-do of one of our earliest episodes on Richard Shepard’s The Perfection. Now, we’re talking about what Wes Craven dubbed “the scariest film of 1995” in Todd Haynes‘ AIDS allegory Safe, which boasts […]
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Shit Your Pants After ringing in the New Year with the gayest slasher ever made, Trace and I are doing something that Horror Queers has never done: we’re revisiting a film we’ve already covered! The film in question is a favorite: Richard Shepard‘s The Perfection, which debuted at Fantastic Fest back in 2018 before premiering on […]
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New Queer’s Eve. It’s been a pretty wild December, with us covering off-kilter films like the much-maligned Batman & Robin, the not-as-bad-as-you-think Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings and the Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins-penned murder mystery The Last of Sheila. Now we’re wrapping up the year with a discussion of Carter Smith‘s (The Ruins, Jamie Marks […]
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Bitchy, Bickering Bitches. It’s been a pretty wild December, with us covering off-kilter films like the much-maligned Batman & Robin and the not-as-bad-as-you-think Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings. Now for a special holiday treat, we’re covering Herbert Ross‘ 1973 mystery The Last of Sheila, which not only inspired Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (review) and Glass Onion […]
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Three years ago, following the lack of recognition at the Oscars for horror films, Trace Thurman and I created “The Hereditaries” (named after Toni Collette’s Hereditary omission), a series of horror awards to acknowledge all of the great work being done in the genre. We’re now up to the fourth annual Hereditaries (click here to vote), which celebrates […]
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Holy Ice Puns, Batman! After ending November with the better-than-the-original sequel Addams Family Values and Jacques Tourneur’s queer-coded Cat People, we’re kicking off December with an annual discussion of a Batman film…only this time it’s queer filmmaker Joel Schumacher‘s much-maligned sequel: 1997’s Batman & Robin! The film sees Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O’Donnell), attempting […]
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Get Fucked Oliver It was a busy November as Trace and I bounced from Jennifer Reeder’s female-centric text Knives and Skin to Paul Verhoeven’s anti-war satire Starship Troopers. Then we dipped over to Japan for Satoshi Kon’s gorgeously animated Perfect Blue before tackling Thanksgiving queerness in Addams Family Values, which proved, yet again, that straight […]
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MA-LI-BU BAR-BIE! It’s already the end of November, but we had a wild ride this month discussing the dream-like pastel world of Jennifer Reeder’s women-centric Knives and Skin and the 25th-anniversary fascist machismo world of Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers. Then last week we made our second foray into animated fare (after ParaNorman) with Satoshi Kon‘s stunning first […]
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Would you like to know more? After hanging with two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon to praise the camp classic Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, we got a bit more abstract with the ethereal noir-ish antics of Jennifer Reeder’s Knives and Skin. This week, we’re delving into Paul Verhoeven‘s not-so-secret satire Starship Troopers in celebration of its […]
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Déjà Vu! We’ve spent spooky season checking in with an infamous psychopathic bisexual, revisiting a horrendous slasher sequel and heaping all the praise on one of the best genre films of the 2010s. Now, we’re celebrating Halloween by heading to the quaint, puritanical town of Fallwell to hang with Elvira in James Signorelli‘s camp classic […]
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Masterclass It’s not every day that your podcast hits 200 episodes or gets a brand new logo, so it’s been a big week for Trace and me over at Horror Queers. We’ve had an incredibly busy October on the pod, what with an extended conversation with Don Mancini about the last 30+ years of the […]
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Halloween Stinks. After closing out September with a discussion on one of the best horror remakes and a candid chat with Chucky creator Don Mancini, we kicked off spooky season by checking in with an infamous psychopathic bisexual and reevaluating the controversy surrounding that film’s release. Now, just after Halloween Ends (review) divided fans, we’re […]
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Each week Joe Lipsett will highlight a key scene or interaction in S02 of Don Mancini’s Chucky series to consider how the show is engaging with and contributing to queer horror. With the action cutting back exclusively to the School of Incarnate Lord, this week’s “Chucky” delivers an hour focused solely on the kids. And […]
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Bitch, it’s Don Mancini! September has been a very busy month for us Horror Queers! First, we took a trip to Poland to analyze the trans allegory in the mermaid horror musical The Lure before heading back into the twisted mind of Clive Barker to discuss his infamous directorial debut, Hellraiser. Last week, we’re doing a […]
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