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‘Infested’ Review – One of the Best Spiders Attack Horror Movies in Years
It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a tried and true, serious-in-tone creature feature, or at least one in which the creature in question is a real-world animal and not a fictitious monster....
The Queer Rage of ‘Eli’
The Devil is in the Details. After kicking off April with discussions of Matt Damon’s demon twink in The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen) and the perfect balance of horror and comedy in John Landis...
The Demon Twink Lives On in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’
Boring! After concluding March with a discussion of Velma’s queer erasure in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (listen) and a revisit to the world of James Whale in The Invisible Man (listen),...
Velma’s Queer Erasure in ‘Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed’
Mystery Mistress. After kicking off March with discussions of the Kristen Stewart vehicle Personal Shopper (listen) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (listen), we’re getting a litt...
Terrifying Texts in Olivier Assayas’ ‘Personal Shopper’ Starring Kristen Stewart
Airplane Mode off… After closing out February with discussions of Pedro Almodóvar gender-bending thriller The Skin I Live In (listen) and Neil Jordan’s not-campy-enough stalker film Greta (l...
Navigating the Controversial Gender Politics of Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’
I am Vicente. After kicking off February with discussions of Albert Lewin’s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (listen) and the perfectly serviceable remake of Friday the 13th (list...
Straightening Out ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
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 Febru...
The Bland, Uninspired Antics of ‘The Roommate’
Fedora fashion. After kicking off 2024 with discussions on the better-than-it-has-any-right-to-be sequel Hellbound: Hellraiser II (listen), the surprisingly progressive Killer Condom (listen) a...
‘Kidnapping Inc.’ Sundance Review – Frenetic Caper Serves Up Messy Fun
A lengthy pre-title card sequence informs viewers of the political turmoil, poverty and racism that have plagued Haiti for decades, setting the stage for a kidnapping-gone-wrong plot among Haitia...
‘Handling the Undead’ Sundance Review – A Haunting Meditation on Grief
A loud, high-pitched sound echoes through the streets of Oslo. Car alarms start going off everywhere. A citywide blackout begins. An elderly man, draped over his grandson’s grave, begins to hea...
‘The Moogai’ Sundance Review – The Monster is a Metaphor (Again)
Over the course of six decades (1910-1970), tens of thousands of Australian Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes due to the assimilation policies that were in place at the t...
Worshipping at the Altar of Julia Cotton in ‘Hellbound: Hellraiser II’
We’re here about a mattress… After wrapping up 2023 with look at New French Extremity in Inside (listen), horror musicals in Anna and the Apocalypse (listen) and the Best Horror Films of 2023...
‘Inside’ One of the New French Extremity’s Strongest (and Bloodiest) Entries
Gimme dat baby. After wrapping up November with a look at cryptids in The Mothman Prophecies (listen), we kicked off December with a journey back into the land of giallo in Sergio Martino’s You...
The High Strangeness of ‘The Mothman Prophecies’
Mothman’s Got Cakes. After spending our month-long theme on toxic masculinity with difficult watches like Funny Games (listen), Deadgirl (listen) and Hard Candy (listen), we’re taking a break...
Taking a Bite Out of the Controversial ‘Hard Candy’
I Fucking Hate Goldfrapp. After spending our month-long theme on toxic masculinity with difficult watches like Funny Games (listen) and Deadgirl (listen), as well as an easier watch in Murder B...
Queer Overtones and Showy Psychos in ‘Murder By Numbers’
Bullock’s Badly Behaved Baboon. After kicking off our month-long theme on toxic masculinity with difficult watches like Funny Games (listen) and Deadgirl (listen), we’re slowing things down ...
Getting Lectured by Michael Haneke in ‘Funny Games’
Silly Americans… After concluding spooky season with a reappraisal of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (the Director’s Cut), we’re moving into November by kicking off a new theme of episodes o...
Evil Begets Evil in ‘Apt Pupil’
Nazi is as Nazi does. After kicking off spooky season with a look at Tim Burton’s ode to Hammer Horror in Sleepy Hollow and tackling another Friday the 13th with one of its best entries in ...
‘Sleepy Hollow’: Tim Burton’s Ode to Hammer Horror
What a goose! After closing our month of erotic thrillers with a look at the Wachowski sisters’ queer neo-noir Bound and the ultra sexy queer French thriller Stranger By the Lake, we’re kicki...
‘There’s Something in the Barn’ Fantastic Fest Review – Evil Elf Comedy Has an Identity Crisis
Christmas horror movies don’t come around too often, but every now and then we get gems like Black Christmas, Gremlins, Rare Exports and Krampus. Magnus Martens‘ evil elf horror comedy There�...
‘Totally Killer’ Fantastic Fest Review – Blumhouse’s Time Travel Slasher is Totally Charming
When the trailer for Totally Killer was released a few weeks ago, there was a bit of an uproar on social media claiming that the film was ripping off The Final Girls (review). While there are ...
‘Kill Dolly Kill’ Fantastic Fest Review – A Mixed Bag of Campy Trash
While the theme of Fantastic Fest this year is occultism/Satanic panic, the “junior” theme of the fest could easily be The Wrath of Troma, given that the opening night film of the festival wa...
The Erotic Joy of The Wachowski Sisters’ ‘Bound’
Ovinal neo-noir. September has been the month of erotic thrillers on the Horror Queers podcast, and after spending the first two weeks discussing Brian De Palma’s controversial masterpiece Dre...
‘We Are Zombies’ Fantastic Fest Review – Zombie Comedy Oozes Charm (Among Other Things)
We seem to have run the gamut of the zombie apocalypse film. Like the possession film, it’s getting to be more and more difficult for filmmakers to breathe new life into the sub-genre, with onl...
‘The Deep Dark’ Fantastic Fest Review – Claustrophobic Thriller Struggles to Maintain Tension
Few fears are more universal than claustrophobia. Many of us have probably experienced that twinge of anxiety when elevator doors close behind us, but few of us have likely ever been down in the ...
‘Strange Darling’ Fantastic Fest Review – Cat and Mouse Thriller Has Plenty of Surprises
“Do you have any idea the kind of risks a woman like me takes every time she decides to have a little bit of fun?” So says our female protagonist in writer/director JT Mollner‘s Strange Da...
The Controversial Masterpiece That Is Brian De Palma’s ‘Dressed to Kill’
The Ultimate Time Capsule. We closed out August with a look at the horror elements in the non-horror film Shiva Baby, the trans empowerment of Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers, and Park Chan-wo...
A Queer Writer and a Stylish Director Join Forces to Give Us ‘Stoker’
St(r)oker. We closed out August with a look at the horror elements in the non-horror film Shiva Baby and the trans empowerment of Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers. Now, we’re looking at Par...
Discussing the Afterlife and Religion in ‘The Others’
Bitch, you dead. We closed out July with a look at Joshua Grannell’s 2010 campy horror comedy All About Evil, and kicked off July discussing the ins and outs of the photography industry in the ...
The Campy Antics of ‘All About Evil’
The Business of Show! We spent July discussing gender in a myriad of ways: cross-dressing serial killers in Insidious: Chapter 2 and Psycho, as well as trans representation in Escape Room: Tourna...
The Boulet Bros. Chime in On ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’
Cisgusting. We spent June discussing genderfluid dinosaurs, evil weaves and queer-coded hitchhikers, and we’re kicking off July with a discussion of the Sleepaway Camp of it all in James Wan�...
Analyzing the Queer-Coded Killer in ‘The Hitcher’
Fairy man. We spent June discussing a cisgender male demon trapped in a female body, genderfluid dinosaurs and evil weaves, so we’re kicking off July with a film that’s a bit more grounded: R...
Killer Weaves and Muddled Commentary in ‘Bad Hair’
Wigging Out. We spent the first few weeks of June discussing a cisgender male demon trapped in a female body and genderfluid dinosaurs, and now we’re delving into the world of Black women’s h...
A Gendered Reading of ‘Jurassic Park’
Spare no expense! After closing out May with the first half of our dino double feature in Tammy and the T-Rex, we’re kicking off June (and concluding the double feature) with a look at Steven ...
Lady Scientists and a Mutant Bear in Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’
Refraction action. After closing out April with a look at the hagsploitation classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, we kicked off May with a deathly serious look at Gus Van Sant’s pseudo-Co...
A Reading of JC as the “Gay Best Friend” in ‘Night of the Creeps’
This one bitch… After finishing April with back-to-back looks at stylish vampire films like The Hunger and Ganja & Hess, we’re kicking off May a film we’ve actually discussed before (in wri...
Discussing Codependency and Lesbian Love Scenes in ‘The Hunger’
You’re French, lady! After finishing off March with a look at the body horror aspects incorporated into Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster, we kicked off April with a journey into the weird and wi...
Getting Up Close and Personal With ‘Closet Monster’
I Love Wood. After finishing off March with a journey back into the world of erotic thrillers with John McNaughton’s 1998 classic Wild Things and marveling over the low budget delights of Tob...
The Steamy Sexual Politics of ‘Wild Things’
Gator Chic. After kicking off the month of March with a look at some classic queer cinema in Robert Wise’s The Haunting, we unlocked the Patreon vault and re-released our super-sized episode on...
A Baffling Hodgepodge of Genres in Mike Nichols’ ‘Wolf’
A meek misogynist? Weird Sex Month is coming to an end, but here’s a quick recap of our coverage: we started things off with David Cronenberg’s Videodrome before moving into some divorce trou...
A Collapsing Marriage and Tentacle Porn in Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’
Subway Screaming. After closing out January with a revisit of the Dark Castle slasher remake House of Wax, Joe and I settled into our birthday month with Videodrome, kicking off four weeks of ...
Exploiting an Heiress in the ‘House of Wax’ Marketing Campaign
See Paris Cry. After kicking off 2023 with a re-do of one of our earliest episodes (The Perfection), we moved on to Todd Haynes’ AIDS allegory Safe before tackling Guillermo del Toro’s Gothi...
‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Sundance Review – A Melancholy Fable of Human Resilience
War of the Worlds. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Independence Day. Signs. All of these films depict alien invasions as they are happening, but what happens after the fact? And what if, by some ...
‘Divinity’ Sundance Review – A Stunningly Original, Weird-as-Hell Sci-fi Trip
Out of all the programming categories at Sundance, it’s NEXT that proves to be the most divisive. Saved for “pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to stor...
‘In My Mother’s Skin’ Sundance Review – An Ambitiously Grim Horror Fairy Tale
Squelching sounds radiate over a dark screen as we fade in on a humanoid creature chowing down on a victim’s throat. After pulling away and exposing an inhumanly long tongue, the creature begin...
‘Run Rabbit Run’ Sundance Review – Aussie Horror Drama Is ‘The Babadook’-Lite
The horror genre has always been an excellent vehicle for metaphors for grief and trauma. After all, what better genre is there to take our emotional monsters and make them literal? We’ve seen ...
‘birth/rebirth’ Sundance Review – Two Outstanding Lead Performances Elevate “Frankenstein” Update
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (or, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus for purists) has been retold countless times in the 100+ years since its original publication, with many creators stic...
The Bleak Outlook of a World With AIDS in Todd Haynes’ ‘Safe’
Moore Milk, Please. After wrapping up 2022 with a discussion of Carter Smith’s Into the Dark entry “Midnight Kiss“, we kicked off 2023 with a re-do of one of our earliest episodes on Richa...
‘Friday the 13th’ Fan Film Finale ‘Here Comes the Night: Part 3’ Available Now!
The trailer for Here Comes the Night: Part 3, the sequel to the Friday the 13th fan films Here Comes the Night and Here Comes the Night: Part 2, was released earlier this month. Now, the full 39...
Is “Midnight Kiss” The Queerest Slasher Film Ever Made?
New Queer’s Eve. It’s been a pretty wild December, with us covering off-kilter films like the much-maligned Batman & Robin, the not-as-bad-as-you-think Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings and the...