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The Positive Queer Representation in John Carpenter’s ‘Someone’s Watching Me!’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
City of Stalkers.
After five weeks of discussing hilarious camp with Drop Dead Gorgeous, Nurse 3D, Female Trouble, Flesh for Frankenstein, and Sleepaway Camp, it’s time to go back to some more serious horror with a look at John Carpenter’s 1978 TV movie Someone’s Watching Me!.
In the film, Leigh Michaels (Lauren Hutton) takes a room in a high-rise apartment building where the previous tenant died by suicide. Soon after, Leigh begins receiving mysterious phone calls, getting anonymous gifts in the mail and finding that her room has been searched by someone. When a letter finally arrives in which her tormentor expresses his intention to kill her, she takes it to the police, but they’re unable to do anything. Terrified, Leigh teams up with her co-worker Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau) in an effort to find the culprit herself.
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Episode 189: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
Brush up on your stalking laws because we’re heading to the City of Angels to discuss our very first TV movie in John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978), which aired on NBC just one month after the release of Halloween!
Join us as we do a crash course on the status of television movies in the ’70s before analyzing Carpenter’s subversion of the Final Girl trope and then rightfully praising the groundbreaking positive queer representation in Adrienne Barbeau’s Sophie (before lamenting her inclusion in the “bury your gays” trope).
Plus, plenty of Scooby-Doo connections, all kinds of gazes, the “right” way to come home from work and the ultimate question: Is Forth Worth, TX some sort of lesbian haven?
Cross out Someone’s Watching Me!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re diving back into the twisted mind of Clive Barker with a fresh look at his second directorial effort: Nightbreed (1990)!
P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for more than 195 hours of additional content! This month, we’re discussing Netflix’s Resident Evil series, Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator film Prey, Peacock’s queer slasher They/Them and A24’s queer murder mystery Bodies Bodies Bodies. Oh, and we’ve got an audio commentary on Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon just in time for its 25th anniversary!
Podcasts
Stephen King’s ‘Doctor Sleep’ Returns to ‘The Shining’ With Mixed Results [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.”
The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast heads to Frazier, New Hampshire to review Stephen King’s 2013 novel, Doctor Sleep. The sequel to 1977’s The Shining follows a much-older Danny Torrance, whose battle with alcoholism becomes all the more complicated when he crosses paths with a young child who also has the shine.
Join Losers Randall Colburn, Michael Roffman, and Dan Caffrey as they discuss the True Knot, dirty dishes with poundcake, and debate if King should have ever burned down The Overlook Hotel. Note: This episode was recorded in 2019 and is being re-released today as part of their ensuing chronological read-through.
Stream the discussion below and stay tuned next week for an episode on Bryan Fuller’s Carrie. For further adventures, join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. You can also unlock hundreds of hours of content in The Barrens (Patreon), including more Lobstrosities like this episode.
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