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

Joe Lipsett Ehren Kruger, gena rowlands, gothic horror, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Iain Softley, John Hurt, joy bryant, Kate Hudson, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Peter Sarsgaard, Podcasts, Southern gothic

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 Shifting Genres of J.A. Bayona’s ‘The Orphanage’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, J.A. Bayona, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Roger Príncep, The Orphanage

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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The Rampant Sexuality of David Cronenberg’s ‘Shivers’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Barbara Steele, David Cronenberg, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Lynn Lowry, Paul Hampton, Podcasts, Shivers

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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The Perils of Reviewing 1/3 of a Movie with ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Froy Gutierrez, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Letizia Fabbri, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Madelaine Petsch, Matúš Lajčák, Olivia Kreutzova, Podcasts, Renny Harlin, The Strangers, The Strangers: Chapter 1

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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Two Horror Icons Were Born in 1984’s ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Amanda Wyss, freddy krueger, Heather Langenkamp, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, nick corri, Podcasts, Robert Englund, Ronee Blakley

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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The Double Divas at the Heart of ‘Night of the Demons’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett amelia kinkade, Cathy Podewell, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Kevin Tenney, lance fenton, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Linnea Quigley, Night of the Demons, Podcasts

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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‘Birth’ Was So Much More Than Its Notorious Bathtub Scene [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Anne Heche, Arliss Howard, Danny Huston, Horror Queers, Jonathan Glazer, Lauren Bacall, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Nicole Kidman, Peter Stormare, Podcasts

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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Serving Up a Month of Jeffrey Dahmer [Murder Made Fiction Podcast]

Joe Lipsett jeff dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jeremy Renner, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Marc Meyers, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Murder Made Fiction, My Friend Dahmer, Podcasts, Ross Lynch, Ryan Murphy, true crime

First Month Take-Aways. It’s been a busy and also heavy first month on the Murder Made Fiction podcast for Jenn and I. We’ve spent September looking at a variety of texts that explore Jeffrey Dahmer as a teenager, as a man, as a sexual predator, as a bogeyman, and as an example of social injustice, […]

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Celebrating Under Seen Zombie Film ‘The Girl With All The Gifts’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Adaptation, Colm McCarthy, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Paddy Considine, Podcasts, Sennia Nanua, The Girl with All the Gifts, young adult horror, Zombie

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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The “Weird” Appeal of Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Alec Baldwin, Beetlejuice, Catherine O'Hara, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Michael Keaton, Podcasts, Winona Ryder

Live in this World After spending August discussing Paul Morrissey’s Udo Kier-starring Blood for Dracula (listen), Julia Ducournau’s Raw follow-up Titane (listen), and Stephen Herek’s comfort classic Critters (listen), we wrapped up the month with a look at Tim Burton‘s 1988 classic, Beetlejuice! In the film, Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) are perfectly content […]

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Car Sex and Serial Killing in ‘Titane’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Agathe Rousselle, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Julia Ducournau, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Vincent Lindon

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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The Mean Prescience of ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Alexa Mansour, Andrew Lees, Betty Gabriel, Colin Woodell, Connor Del Rio, Douglas Tait, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Screenlife, Stephanie Nogueras, Stephen Susco, Unfriended, Unfriended: Dark Web

Mateo After wrapping up July with a Jan de Bont double feature discussing the movie magic of Twister (listen) and the laundry list of problems with his 1999 remake of The Haunting (listen), we’re tackled our first Alejandro Jodorowsky film with Santa Sangre (listen). Now we’re back on American soil for our first Screenlife horror film on […]

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The Queer Undertones of Stanley Kubrick’s Masterful ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Eyes Wide Shut, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Nicole Kidman, Podcasts, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise

Kubrick Edging June proved to be a wild month: we talked about the wacky space antics of Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen), the underseen-but-very-good trans vampire film Bit (listen), the first half of Grindhouse’s double-bill, Planet Terror (listen) before closing the month with Shinya Tsukamoto’s Japanese cyberpunk masterpiece, Tetsuo: The Iron Man (listen). Now it’s […]

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The Male/Male Metal Romance Behind ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett extreme cinema, japanese cyberpunk, Kei Fujiwara, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Podcasts, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tomorowo Taguchi

Audio Assault. June proved to be a wild month: we talked about the wacky space antics of Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen), the underseen-but-very-good trans vampire film Bit (listen), and Robert Rodriguez’s first half of the Grindhouse double-bill, Planet Terror (listen). To kick off July, we’re racing over to Japan to discuss the 35th anniversary […]

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Defending the Controversial Last Act of Danny Boyle’s ‘Sunshine’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Joe Lipsett Alex Garland, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Danny Boyle, Hiroyuki Sanada, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Michelle Yeoh, Podcasts, Sunshine

Payload. After heavy discussions of Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin (listen) and Lisa Brühlmann’s Blue My Mind (listen) – with a stop-over to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Alien (listen) – we’re headed to space with Danny Boyle‘s 2007 collaboration with Alex Garland: Sunshine. The film features an all-star international cast, including Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle […]

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