As the great Mother Superior said, “When we do something naughty, we are always caught. Then, we are punished. Punishment is absolute, punishment is good.” And let’s not forget, Santy Claus only brings presents to them that’s been good all year. All the other ones, all the naughty ones, he punishes! What about you? You […]
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Otaku and Kawaii It feels like November has barely begun, and yet here we are three weeks in. Like most months on Horror Queers, we’ve been all over the place, including 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. Now we’re pivoting […]
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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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Hoot Hoot, Bitch. After discussing the positive queer representation in John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! and the queer safe space of Midian at the center of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, we’re heading over to Italy to wax poetic over Michele Soavi‘s 1987 giallo-cum-slasher Stage Fright! In the film, a narcissistic director (David Brandon) locks a group of stage […]
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Announced today, “Slasher: Ripper” is on the way from Shudder, the brand new fifth season of the slasher-based horror anthology series that originally kicked off back in 2016. Season 4, “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” slashed its way onto Shudder last year. Deadline reports that “Slasher: Ripper” will star Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”). The site’s report […]
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It’s easy to forget just how revolutionary MTV was back when it first went on the air, with the channel quickly becoming a staple of youth culture during the 80s and 90s. Of course, interests change over time, and the music-focused giant was eventually forced to make a few concessions in order to compete with […]
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Watching a bad movie doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad experience. Even the worst films can boast a good idea or two, and that’s why we’re trying to look on the bright side with The Silver Lining, where we shine a light on the best parts of traditionally maligned horror flicks. This time, we’ll […]
We Need to Talk About Cameron…. After touring the streets of Los Angeles in David Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive, we went all the way back to the ’30s to check in with Countess Zaleska in Lambert Hillyer’s queer horror classic Dracula’s Daughter, before hitting the road with Steve Zahn and Paul Walker in Joy Ride. Now, in celebration of […]
Filmmakers have been using horror as a tool to explore serious issues since the very dawn of cinema. Unfortunately, while we’ve been treated to award-winning hits like The Exorcist and The Silence of the Lambs, many of the more experimental horror flicks of the past were doomed to become critical and box-office flops, only being […]
Slasher series creator Aaron Martin and showrunner Ian Carpenter understand one of the most essential elements to a slasher; the kills. And “Slasher: Flesh & Blood,” available exclusively on Shudder, delivered big time. The clip below pulls back the curtain and spotlights the artists behind this season’s gore and how they came up with those gnarly, memorable kills. Be prepared for […]
Slasher series creator Aaron Martin and showrunner Ian Carpenter understand one of the most essential elements to a slasher; the kills. And “Slasher: Flesh & Blood,” available exclusively on Shudder, has delivered massively so far. The exclusive clip below highlights the carnage from the first four of eight episodes, and the amount of bloodletting, violence, and organ-spilling within means […]
This contains spoilers for the premiere episode of Slasher: Flesh & Blood, which is now streaming on Shudder. The premiere episode of “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” hits the ground running with a high-stakes game of life and death. Patriarch Spencer Galloway (David Cronenberg) gathers his highly dysfunctional family together on a remote island and restarts the […]
“Slasher: Flesh & Blood,” the eight-episode fourth season of the horror anthology series that kicked off back in 2016, is coming exclusively to Shudder on August 12. Ahead of its release, Shudder brought a first look at “Slasher: Flesh & Blood” to its Comic-Con@Home panel. Competition gets killer in the teaser, found below. “Slasher: Flesh […]