Horror Queers

Get ready to play the piano all sexy like because we're discussing Park Chan-wook's English-language debut Stoker, which is based on a screenplay from queer screenwriter (and actor) Wentworth Miller(?!?!).

Join us as we discuss the film's journey from a Black List pick to a botched marketing campaign to an even more botched release. This is a shame, because Stoker is a film that oozes so much style that it elevates its baby Dexter plot, even if it could have used about 100% more Nicole Kidman.

Plus: one incredible hair-to-grass transition, camera weaves for days, the most demented sand angel you'll ever see and incest: the last universal taboo.

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Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon minisode discussion on various tropes that we are sick and tired of seeing in horror films (and some non-horror films!).

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Return to camp with Michael A. Simpson's Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988) which finds Angela killing according to Aunt Martha's conservative moral code.

We're talking about Pamela Springsteen's performance (and Felissa Rose's absence), our love of Ally, and the film's status as a self-referential horror comedy.

Plus: the lack of short shorts, poor editing, Molly's end, and debates if the laughs subvert the "trans killer" trope.

Reference:

> Cervantes, Reyna. "Finding Your Identity at Sleepaway Camp." Gayly Dreadful

> Noecker, Miles D. "Let the Monsters Out of the Closet: Overt Queer Depictions in Hollywood Horror Films" (2022). Media and Communication Studies Summer Fellows. 28.

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> Joe: @bstolemyremote

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Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon bonus episode on André Øvredal's "Dracula on a boat" film, The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023).

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Log into your Sugar Baby app and get ready for comments about your appearance because we are discussing Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby (2020).

Joining us is returning guest Lindsay Traves, who unpacks all of the Jewish elements from Shiva coffee to accusations of "Jew Face."

Plus: Dianna Agron's "shiksa goddess" and Jewish beauty ideals, tackling the depiction of sex work and bisexuality, Jewish character actors, and Sugaring apps.

References:

Nick Chen. "Shiva Baby is about ‘how being a young woman is a horror movie." Dazed

Ella Yurman. "Emma Seligman is Jewish, Queer, and Figuring Herself Out." NYU Local

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> Joe: @bstolemyremote

> Lindsay: @smashtraves (Instagram)

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Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Ben Wheatley's shark-y sequel Meg 2: The Trench (2023).

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Pray you don't get lost in the fog because we're heading to Jersey Island to discuss spooky ghost things in Alejandro Amenábar's 2001 film The Others! Joining us for the conversation is Nichole Goble, the host of the Bodies of Horror podcast!

Join us as we trace the origins of the film through Tom Cruise(???) and Dimension Films(??????) before going all in on the atmospheric charms of this Gothic horror gem. From Nicole Kidman's powerful performance, to a look at the film through a lens of disability, we've got you covered.

Plus: much discussion on Catholicism and the afterlife, the not-always-clear rules of the film, and the happiest version of filicide you'll ever find in a horror film.

Reference:

> Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz. Horror of allegory: The Others and its contexts. Contemporary Spanish cinema and genre

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> Nichole: @BodiesHorror

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Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon minisode on A24's buzzy horror film Talk To Me (2023).

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Grab your camera and get ready to scream because we're talking about Irvin Kerschner's Eyes of Laura Mars (1978). Joining us to discuss the fashion, the photography, and the hot 70s men is director and returning guest Carter Smith.

We're obsessed with the glitz and the glamor of this John Carpenter-scripted film, even if we have qualms about the romance between Faye Dunaway's title character and police officer Tommy Lee Jones.

Plus: wasting Raul Julia, lesbian models, real life famous fashionistas, Carter's experiences on set, and our contemporary Euro"peen"-set sequel.

Reference: Lucy Fischer and Marcia Landy. “The Eyes of Lara Mars: A Binocular Critique.” Screen, Volume 23, Issue 3-4, 1982

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> Carter: https://allthedeadboys.com/

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Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon audio commentary on Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

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