The Campy Delights and Dicey Racial Politics of ‘The Skeleton Key’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

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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The Prescient Politics of Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

The Perfect Organism. After kicking off May with discussions of Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy (listen), Trace and I have checked out Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (listen) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Gregg Araki‘s Mysterious Skin (listen). Now we’re crossing a classic title off our list: Ridley Scott‘s Alien. Alien tells the story of the […]

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