ScreamQueenz: Where Horror Gets GAY!

For this ScreamQueenz Summer Bonus Episode, this Patreon-exclusive episode of IT CAME FROM THE 70's has been made public for your enjoyment.

Welcome aboard Polyester Time Traveling Airlines non-stop flight to October 10, 1973; the night DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week.

This is one of the Big Ones!

A Classic!

If people remember ONE 1970's made-for-tv horror movie, it's usually this one!

An entire generation of TV-watching children was scarred for LIFE by this chilling tale of a lonely housewife terrorized by tiny whispering creatures dwelling in her fireplace.

To handle a journey this fraught with peril, I needed a copilot with nerves of steel.

But he was busy.

So I got TOPPIE SMELLIE from THE SMELLCAST.

Expect turbulence, unhappy endings and truly unfortunate wigs.

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK is currently available to stream for free on Dailymotion.

Directed by John Newland. Written by Nigel McKeand. Starring Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, Barbara Anderson and William Demarest.

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This episode of ScreamQueenz was originally published on June 20, 2024 on Patreon as an episode of "It Came From the '70s!". For more Patreon-exclusive episodes of "It Came From the '70s' and "Damn You, Uncle Lewis: The Friday the 13th: The Series Retrospective", become a Patron at patreon.com/screamqueenz.

Climb aboard Polyester Airlines for a trip full of telephonic terror as we travel back in time to February 5, 1972: the night WHEN MICHAEL CALLS starring ELIZABETH ASHLEY, BEN GAZARRA and MICHAEL DOUGLAS premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week.

Elizabeth Ashley starts receiving vaguely threatening phone calls from her long-dead nephew. Naturally, she dismisses it as a prank until it becomes clear that when Michael calls...people die.

My copilot for this dangerous voyage is New York City's favorite undead horror host: the fabulous UNKLE SPOOKY.

Play along at home and watch WHEN MICHAEL CALLS for free on YOUTUBE.

Be sure tp check out Beverly Bremers and her poorly timed pop single "When Michael Calls' at https://youtu.be/mME_O1SiaCY?si=D9rd_XmuuzuHZyTe

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It's the Halloween season, and I'm feeling generous, so please enjoy this episode of IT CAME FROM THE '70s, one of Patreon Exclusive podcasts.

Become a Patron at patreon.com/screamqueenz.

Come take a trip back in time on Polyester Airlines to October 31, 1978, when CBS premiered a "Halloween Howler" otherwise known as DEVIL DOG: HOUND OF HELL.

The Barry family is in for a world of trouble when their new puppy, Lucky, is actually a soul-sucking Barghest demon out to possess them all.

Your co-pilot on this flight into canine kookiness is that outta sight fella from the HOT DATE PODCAST, the foxy Mister DAN DOMINGUES.

Play along at home and watch DEVIL DOG here on YouTube!

DEVIL DOG was directed by CURTIS HARRINGTON and stars RICHARD CRENNA, YVETTE MIMIEUX, KIM RICHARDS, IKE EISENMANN, MARTINE BESWICK and RG ARMSTRONG.

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Happy Halloween, my Beautiful Screamerz!

To celebrate our favorite holiday, I'm tackling one of the most polarizing, controversial and underestimated films of the year: the Canadian experimental slasher film IN A VIOLENT NATURE. [Currently Streaming on Shudder]

Did you love it? Or did you hate it?

What happens when you strip a horror movie of all humanity?

Is it a fascinating examination of human psychology, horror voyeurism and audience ethics?

Or is it a boring slog with a few good kills and a whole lot of walking?

Joining me for this episode are my co-hosts from "Damn You Uncle Lewis", Trae Dean and Maya Murphy.

We'll explore how director Chris Nash toyed with the basic rules of filmmaking to craft a film designed deliberately to make viewers feel mentally detached and emotionally.

More importantly, we'll make you understand why he made the movie this way.

Whether you loved IN A VIOLENT NATURE or hated it, you'll see it in a brand new light after this episode of ScreamQueenz!

Excerpts of MICHAEL CAINE are from Michael Caine: On Acting In Film (1987) Directed by DAVID G. CROFT.

IN A VIOLENT NATURE was written and directed by CHRIS NASH and stars RY BARRETT, ANDREA PAVALOVIC, CAMERON LOVE, REESE PRESLEY, LIAM LEONE, CHARLOTTE CREAGHAN, LEA ROSE SEBASTIANIS, SAM ROULSTON, ALEXANDER OLIVER, TIMOTHY PAUL MCCARTHY, JT JACOBS and LAUREN MARIE TAYLOR

Find out more about TEETH : THE MUSICAL at TeethTheMusical.com

Check out the Original Cast Recording on Spotify

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Halloween may be over, but the horrific hijinx continue with the delightful vampire comedy I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME AT HOUSE HARKER (2016).

The bumbling descendants of Jonothan and Mina Harker must raise $50,000 to save their ancestral home, and their elaborate scheme to cash in on their vampire-slaying history accidentally kicks off an actualvampire apocalypse.

Oopsie.

To add to the blood-soaked belly laughs, my special guests are MICHAEL HOWIE from Defender Radio and CHRISTOPHER GRONLUND from Not About Lumberjacks.

I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME OF HOUSE HARKER was directed by CLAYTON COGSWELL and stars NOEL CARROLL, JACOB GIVENS, DEREK HAUGEN and WHITNEY MOORE.

I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME AT HOUSE HARKER is currently available to watch on Amazon Prime, Tubi, The Roku Channel and Plex.

Check out the sketch comedy of GOODCOPS TV on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/GoodCopsTV

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Once upon a time...three handsome and available Queenz got together to talk about a movie.

Come listen as we put the fairy in fairy tale.

I'm joined this episode by TYLER JENSEN and ROMAN CHIMIENTI, the co-directors of SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, to dig into STUART GORDON's bloody bedtime story, DOLLS.

A ragtag group of lost travelers takes shelter from a storm by spending the night in a secluded mansion owned by a seemingly kindly toymaker, his wife and their army of bloodthirsty dolls.

You can expect:

-Wicked stepmothers

-Ugly stepsisters

-A handsome bear prince

-A bashed Bunty

-Rampaging teddies

-Hairy nip slips

-and Truly Terrible Turbans

DOLLS was directed by STUART GORDON and stars STEPHEN LEE, CARRIE LORRAINE, CAROLYN PERDIE GORDON, IAN PATRICK WILLIAMS, GUY ROLFE, HILLARY MASON, BUNTY BAILEY and CASSIE STUART

Pre-order the new special edition Blu Ray of Tyler and Roman's SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET at VINEGAR SYNDROME

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ScreamQueenz Virtual Drive In

Watch Party Schedule for March

3/13 TIME AFTER TIME

3/20 DOLLS

3/27 LOOKER

July is GAY WRATH MONTH at the ScreamQueenz Virtual Drive-In featuring 5 movies designed to make them FEAR THE QUEERS! Click the links to view the trailers.

07/03 THE ESTATE

07/10 CAT PEOPLE (1942)

07/17 DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM

07/24 WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE

07/30 GRIMM LOVE

All screenings begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Titles and Schedules are subject to change.

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Prepare your funny bone for some otherworldly ticklin', because for Episode 332, I unearthed a hidden gem of a haunted house comedy.

In THE SELLING, a too-nice-for-his-own-good real estate agent is tricked into buying a house that was once owned by a long-dead serial killer. If that wasn't bad enough, the house is also EXTREMELY haunted.

Can Richard defeat the ghosts, sell the house and save the day? (And is anybody gonna eat those leftover brownies???)

To counteract the spectral scares, I'm adding some rugged sexuality to the mix, because my special guests are the follicularly blessed MICHAEL HOWIE ("Defender Radio") and CHRISTOPHER GRONLUND ("Men in Gorilla Suits", "Not About Lumberjacks").

THE SELLING was directed by EMILY LOU WILBUR and stars GABRIEL DIANI, ETTA DEVINE, JONATHAN KLEIN, JANET VARNEY, NANCY LENEHAN, BARRY BOSTWICK, SIMON HELBERG & HARRY GROENER

July is GAY WRATH MONTH at the ScreamQueenz Virtual Drive-In featuring 5 movies designed to make them FEAR THE QUEERS! Click the links to view the trailers.

07/03 THE ESTATE

07/10 CAT PEOPLE (1942)

07/17 DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM

07/24 WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE

07/30 GRIMM LOVE

All screenings begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Titles and Schedules are subject to change.

Visit bit.ly/watchsq at showtime to join.

Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com

Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE.

Get access to THE FINAL REEL, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" and all other Premium ScreamQueenz PATREON Content for as little as $5 a month. Find out more at www.Patreon.com/screamqueenz

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Old Hollywood had a name for movies like PICTURE MOMMY DEAD.

Schlock.

"A Schlock film is the term given to a film that represents a low-budget horror flick. With overly-sensational plots, lurid special effects, and perhaps a bit of immature, albeit comedic, gag style humor ." -BeverlyBoy.com

Today, we might call it campy or cheesy or trashy, but whatever name you call it, it's a Big Gay Horror Good Time!

PICTURE MOMMY DEAD is a schlocktacular potboiler of a thriller with all the classic Gothic trappings:

• A creepy mansion
• A young girl suffering from amnesia
• A murdered woman
• A missing diamond necklace
• And a veritable viper's nest of conniving gaslighting characters all out to screw each other out of inheriting the family fortune.

Here to add some elegance to the cinematic sleaze is fabulous queer filmmaker, ALAN ROWE KELLY (Tales of Poe, The Blood Shed, Site 13)

PICTURE MOMMY DEAD was directed by BURT I GORDON (Earth vs The Spider, Food of the Gods) and stars ZSA ZSA GABOR (Queen of Outer Space, Nightmare on Elm Street III), DON AMECHE (Heaven Can Wait, Cocoon), SUSAN GORDON (Attack of the Puppet People, Tormented), MARTHA HYER (Sabrina, The Sons of Katie Elder), MAXWELL REED (Helen of Troy, Daughter of Darkness) and WENDELL COREY (Rear Window, Sorry Wrong Number).

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Review of THE DRAG SEED @La Mama Experimental Theater thru April 10. Get tickets at TODAYTIX.COM

July is GAY WRATH MONTH at the ScreamQueenz Virtual Drive-In featuring 5 movies designed to make them FEAR THE QUEERS! Click the links to view the trailers.

07/03 THE ESTATE

07/10 CAT PEOPLE (1942)

07/17 DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM

07/24 WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE

07/30 GRIMM LOVE

All screenings begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Titles and Schedules are subject to change.

Visit bit.ly/watchsq at showtime to join.

Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com

Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE.

Get access to THE FINAL REEL, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" and all other Premium ScreamQueenz PATREON Content for as little as $5 a month. Find out more at www.Patreon.com/screamqueenz

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I'm in desperate need of a break, so while I'm gone I'm leaving you with the best babysitter I could find.

Queer horror legend VINCENT PRICE.

THE PRICE OF FEAR is a BBC old-time radio show which was first broadcast in 1973.

It starred Uncle Vinnie as the Narrator and also an active participant in the ghoulish tales he gets mixed up in while traveling the world, making scary movies, and being fabulous.

"The Waxwork" is based on the short story by A.M. BURRAGE story of the same name and centers on Vincent's chance encounter in London with a down-and-out writer he once worked with.

The writer is attempting to revive his career with a publicity stunt that involves him writing a tale of terror while spending the night in MADAME TUSSAUD'S WAX MUSEUM's infamous CHAMBER OF HORRORS.

What could possibly go wrong...?

If you enjoyed THE PRICE OF FEAR, listen to the whole series for free at archive.org/details/PriceOfFear

While Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors London location is no longer available, you can still see some vintage photos of its terrifying occupants at www.huffpost.com/entry/photos-madame-tussauds-chamber-of-horrors_n_3606909

July is GAY WRATH MONTH at the ScreamQueenz Virtual Drive-In featuring 5 movies designed to make them FEAR THE QUEERS! Click the links to view the trailers.

07/03 THE ESTATE

07/10 CAT PEOPLE (1942)

07/17 DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM

07/24 WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE

07/30 GRIMM LOVE

All screenings begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Titles and Schedules are subject to change.

Visit bit.ly/watchsq at showtime to join.

Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com

Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE.

Get access to THE FINAL REEL, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" and all other Premium ScreamQueenz PATREON Content for as little as $5 a month. Find out more at www.Patreon.com/screamqueenz

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With Friday, May 13th looming on the calendar, it's time for another FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR episode!

This time we're celebrating the work of JOHN CARL BUECHLER ("Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood") and his infamous 1986 cult classic TROLL.

A banished troll king seeks to bring back his lost world of dark fairies by nefariously transforming the residents of a San Francisco apartment building into evil mystical creatures.

Whimsical fantasy or antigay propaganda? YOU DECIDE!

My special guest is MAYA MURPHY, so you can expect some OPINIONS!

TROLL was directed by JOHN CARL BUECHLER and stars MICHAEL MORIARTY, SHELLEY HACK, NOAH HATHAWAY, SONNY BONO, GARY SANDY, JUNE LOCKHART and JULIA LOUIS DREYFUSS.

For my birthday this year, I am once again raising funds for BACKPACKS FOR THE STREET, an organization that delivers backpacks full of essential supplies to the homeless of New York City. Please consider making a donation at www.ScreamQueenz.com/backpacks.

July is GAY WRATH MONTH at the ScreamQueenz Virtual Drive-In featuring 5 movies designed to make them FEAR THE QUEERS! Click the links to view the trailers.

07/03 THE ESTATE

07/10 CAT PEOPLE (1942)

07/17 DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM

07/24 WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE

07/30 GRIMM LOVE

All screenings begin at 8pm Eastern Standard Time.

Titles and Schedules are subject to change.

Visit bit.ly/watchsq at showtime to join.

Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com

Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE.

Get access to THE FINAL REEL, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" and all other Premium ScreamQueenz PATREON Content for as little as $5 a month. Find out more at www.Patreon.com/screamqueenz

Get all your SCREAMQUEENZ MERCHANDISE and browse our entire catalog of hand-curated designs at SCREAMTEEZ. Visit www.screamqueenz.com/merch

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