Game Loop.
Trace and I inadvertently bookended our April discussions of John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London (listen) and Ciarán Foy’s Eli (listen) with Jude Law films. At the start of the month, we tackled Matt Damon’s Italian grifter in The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen) and now we’re closing out April with David Cronenberg‘s eXistenZ (1999).
The unofficial sequel to Videodrome (listen) and precursor to Crimes of the Future, eXistenZ takes place in the world of virtual reality and simulation. Game goddess Allegra Gellar (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is forced to go on the run with PR nerd Ted Pikul (Jude Law) through the Canadian backwoods when ‘Realist’ terrorists declare open season on her life.
Featuring no shortage of strange encounters and oddball characters, including Willem Dafoe‘s queer-coded Gas and Canadian film royalty like Don McKellar and Sarah Polley, Allegra and Ted must travel between the...
Trace and I inadvertently bookended our April discussions of John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London (listen) and Ciarán Foy’s Eli (listen) with Jude Law films. At the start of the month, we tackled Matt Damon’s Italian grifter in The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen) and now we’re closing out April with David Cronenberg‘s eXistenZ (1999).
The unofficial sequel to Videodrome (listen) and precursor to Crimes of the Future, eXistenZ takes place in the world of virtual reality and simulation. Game goddess Allegra Gellar (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is forced to go on the run with PR nerd Ted Pikul (Jude Law) through the Canadian backwoods when ‘Realist’ terrorists declare open season on her life.
Featuring no shortage of strange encounters and oddball characters, including Willem Dafoe‘s queer-coded Gas and Canadian film royalty like Don McKellar and Sarah Polley, Allegra and Ted must travel between the...
- 4/29/2024
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stupendous Tits
After dipping into the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator (listen) and checking out an early adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (listen), somehow we’re already on our third episode of February. And while the holiday doesn’t line up, we couldn’t pass up a chance to revisit Friday the 13th (2009) for its fifteenth anniversary.
In the Marcus Nispel remake, a group of friends travel to the palatial country house of Trent (Travis Van Winkle) near what was once Camp Crystal Lake. As Trent’s girlfriend Jenna (Danielle Panabaker) bonds with Clay (Jared Padalecki) over the disappearance of his sister Whitney (Amanda Righetti), their friends Chewie (Aaron Yoo), Bree (Julianna Guill), Lawrence (Arlen Escarpeta), Nolan (Ryan Hansen) and Chelsea (Willa Ford) are being picked off one by one by Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears).
Who will survive their encounter with survivalist Jason? Can anything top the...
After dipping into the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator (listen) and checking out an early adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (listen), somehow we’re already on our third episode of February. And while the holiday doesn’t line up, we couldn’t pass up a chance to revisit Friday the 13th (2009) for its fifteenth anniversary.
In the Marcus Nispel remake, a group of friends travel to the palatial country house of Trent (Travis Van Winkle) near what was once Camp Crystal Lake. As Trent’s girlfriend Jenna (Danielle Panabaker) bonds with Clay (Jared Padalecki) over the disappearance of his sister Whitney (Amanda Righetti), their friends Chewie (Aaron Yoo), Bree (Julianna Guill), Lawrence (Arlen Escarpeta), Nolan (Ryan Hansen) and Chelsea (Willa Ford) are being picked off one by one by Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears).
Who will survive their encounter with survivalist Jason? Can anything top the...
- 2/19/2024
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
British Buggery.
After closing out January with the very gay (and very terrible) The Covenant (listen) and the pseudo-remake of Single White Female: The Roommate (listen), we kicked off February with journey to the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator. Now, we’re traveling back in time to discuss Albert Lewin‘s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), tells his friend Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian inadvertently makes a Faustian bargain to stay young forever. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. Unfortunately, his sins take physical form on a portrait of himself, and as the years go by he must decide what type of man he wants to be.
After closing out January with the very gay (and very terrible) The Covenant (listen) and the pseudo-remake of Single White Female: The Roommate (listen), we kicked off February with journey to the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator. Now, we’re traveling back in time to discuss Albert Lewin‘s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), tells his friend Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian inadvertently makes a Faustian bargain to stay young forever. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. Unfortunately, his sins take physical form on a portrait of himself, and as the years go by he must decide what type of man he wants to be.
- 2/12/2024
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
The latest edition of Fantast Fest is set to commence at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX, from September 21st – 28th, unleashing a slew of face-melting premieres, cinema celebrations, and live events. That includes a special event from Bloody FM’s Horror Queers Podcast, marking their return to the festival.
“We are so thrilled to be returning to Fantastic Fest, the home of our first live show. And what better way to celebrate than to take a tour of the last decade of queer horror at the festival,” Horror Queers’ hosts Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman said in a statement.
Each week hosts Lipsett and Thurman discuss a horror film with LGBTQ+ themes, a high camp quotient, or both. For their special A Decade of Queer Horror Live Event, the hosts will take attendees on a tour of the past ten years of queer horror. More specifically, they...
“We are so thrilled to be returning to Fantastic Fest, the home of our first live show. And what better way to celebrate than to take a tour of the last decade of queer horror at the festival,” Horror Queers’ hosts Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman said in a statement.
Each week hosts Lipsett and Thurman discuss a horror film with LGBTQ+ themes, a high camp quotient, or both. For their special A Decade of Queer Horror Live Event, the hosts will take attendees on a tour of the past ten years of queer horror. More specifically, they...
- 9/20/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Mistress Doom. After hanging with Jesse Hooker’s crew and analyzing the AIDS allegory in Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire western Near Dark, we traveled all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In. Now we’re changing up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick: […]
The post The Self-Hating Queer Villain at the Center of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
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- 4/25/2022
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
Bet on Bigelow. After reaching the end of the road on our Underseen or Underrated?” theme with the queer, DIY aesthetics of Death Drop Gorgeous, we then returned to our regular programming with an analysis of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and a Spring Break celebration with Alexandre Aja’s 2010 schlock-fest Piranha 3D. Now we head back […]
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The post Glass Ceilings and An(other) AIDS Allegory in ‘Near Dark’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 4/11/2022
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
Dick in 5 Minutes. We’ve reached the end of the road on our “underseen or underrated?” theme. For the last three months we’ve been discussing films of the 2010s using that barometer and after a month that included Darren Aronofsky‘s mother!, Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation, Gaspar Noé’s Climax and Kurtis David Harder‘s Spiral, we’re finally up […]
The post The DIY Gay Aesthetics of ‘Death Drop Gorgeous’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
The post The DIY Gay Aesthetics of ‘Death Drop Gorgeous’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 3/21/2022
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Aronofsky Autobiography? After a few weeks of back to back quiet, moody films for our “underrated or underseen” theme, including Oz Perkin’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter for 2015 and Nicholas Verso‘s 2016 tearjerker Boys in the Trees, Trace and I are ready to get bombastic! For 2017, we – along with guests Gabe and Kat from Ghouls Next Door […]
The post The Many Allegories in Aronofsky’s Harrowing ‘mother!’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
The post The Many Allegories in Aronofsky’s Harrowing ‘mother!’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 2/21/2022
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
We're very excited to share the news that Salem Horror Fest and the Horror Queers podcast are partnering up for a new 3-day virtual pride festival! Frightgown will take place from Friday, June 25 - Sunday, June 27 and the event is in support of the Transgender Law Center:
"Salem, Ma - May 12, 2021 - Salem Horror Fest and the Horror Queers podcast have teamed up to present Frightgown, a new 3-day virtual Pride festival celebrating Queer voices in a series of features, shorts, panels, virtual hangouts, exclusive content and so much more in support of the Transgender Law Center.
“After more than a year of being kept apart, isolated and disconnected from our community, the need for a communal experience has never been more vital. Queer people deserve a celebratory event – an opportunity to reconnect, and to engage with the films, people and discussions that contribute to our experience as fans...
"Salem, Ma - May 12, 2021 - Salem Horror Fest and the Horror Queers podcast have teamed up to present Frightgown, a new 3-day virtual Pride festival celebrating Queer voices in a series of features, shorts, panels, virtual hangouts, exclusive content and so much more in support of the Transgender Law Center.
“After more than a year of being kept apart, isolated and disconnected from our community, the need for a communal experience has never been more vital. Queer people deserve a celebratory event – an opportunity to reconnect, and to engage with the films, people and discussions that contribute to our experience as fans...
- 5/12/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Greetings, Daily Dead readers! As I’m sure many of you are aware, that year sucked. Epically for most, around the world. Like others I turned to the arts for comfort and distraction, and like some, I found myself at a distance from the very thing I was turning to.
This was odd, and definitely new; horror had always been there to tend to my anxieties and shield me from reality if even only for a couple of hours. But during that year I found myself distracted watching the films I hold dearest—films like Burnt Offerings and Phantasm—while being equally blasé towards experiencing new horror offerings.
How could my cherished companion abandon me this way? Luckily, the indifference would fade away for moments—for minutes and hours—so that I could enjoy my old favorites and hopefully witness the birth of some new ones, too. And lo and behold,...
This was odd, and definitely new; horror had always been there to tend to my anxieties and shield me from reality if even only for a couple of hours. But during that year I found myself distracted watching the films I hold dearest—films like Burnt Offerings and Phantasm—while being equally blasé towards experiencing new horror offerings.
How could my cherished companion abandon me this way? Luckily, the indifference would fade away for moments—for minutes and hours—so that I could enjoy my old favorites and hopefully witness the birth of some new ones, too. And lo and behold,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
BBC America has ordered a series of short films that aim to change the perception of disability. The cable network has ordered Disability Monologues (w/t), curated by Mat Fraser, who has starred in His Dark Materials and American Horror Story.
Fraser, who has thalidomide-induced phocomelia, will star in the films alongside poet and playwright Jackie Hagan, Ruth Madeley (The Watch), Robert Softley Gale (My Left/Right Foot) and Liz Carr (Silent Witness). The films will premiere in 2020.
Through fictional monologues, Disability Monologues will portray the very real experiences of people with disabilities over the last 50 years in Britain. From the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration to the liberation of the electric wheelchair, there have been both great steps forward and terrible setbacks. These short films seek to challenge the world view that somehow, having a disability is a problem, or “not normal.”
Disability Monologues is produced in association with...
Fraser, who has thalidomide-induced phocomelia, will star in the films alongside poet and playwright Jackie Hagan, Ruth Madeley (The Watch), Robert Softley Gale (My Left/Right Foot) and Liz Carr (Silent Witness). The films will premiere in 2020.
Through fictional monologues, Disability Monologues will portray the very real experiences of people with disabilities over the last 50 years in Britain. From the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration to the liberation of the electric wheelchair, there have been both great steps forward and terrible setbacks. These short films seek to challenge the world view that somehow, having a disability is a problem, or “not normal.”
Disability Monologues is produced in association with...
- 1/16/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s nothing more delightful than watching Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman revel in all of that cheeky queer subtext on “Sherlock.” We have the show’s out creator, Mark Gatiss, to thank for it. Gatiss is ditching the undertones for overtones in “Queers,” a new short series commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act (sic), which partially decriminalized sex between two men in the U.K. Featuring performances from Britain’s brightest out actors, such as Alan Cumming, Ben Whishaw, and Russell Tovey, each episode is written by a different prominent Lgbt writer. BBC America released a first trailer for the series today, and it’s flecked with all sorts of period costume magic.
According to the BBC, the show is a series of monologues from different figures throughout the fifty years, using inspiration from 1957’s Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offence Act itself.
According to the BBC, the show is a series of monologues from different figures throughout the fifty years, using inspiration from 1957’s Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offence Act itself.
- 9/22/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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