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‘Horror Queers’ Podcast Launched, Listen Now!

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We’ve been teasing you about it for a few weeks, but the time has finally come: Bloody Disgusting’s bi-monthly queer horror column is making the move over to the Podcasting Network! Now, you’ll be able to hear Trace and Joe banter about horror movies on a weekly basis! We are incredibly excited to bring this show to you and hope you enjoy it as well. For those of you who are averse to podcasts: never fear! We will still be writing our column, albeit less frequently (once a month as opposed to twice).

To make the launch extra exciting, we’ve released the first three episodes in full, so all three are available right now! Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple PodcastsGoogle PlayStitcherSpotifySoundCloudTuneInLibsyn and RSS.

If you want even more content, visit our Patreon page where you can sign up for exclusive bonus episodes each month! This bonus content will consist of full-length episodes on new theatrically-released horror films. For January, we’re covering both Escape Room and Glass, the biggest horror movies of the month. Our review for Escape Room is already uploaded, so if you become a patron today you’ll have instant access to that episode!

For your listening convenience, we have embedded the audio for those first three episodes below (and just a heads up: the first episode is more of a “getting to know you” episode, so if you don’t care to learn more about us as individuals, feel free to skip episode 1 and move on to episode 2!).

Episode 1 – Speed Dating

Welcome to Horror Queers, a podcast based on Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman’s long-running article series on Bloody Disgusting. In this first episode, the guys introduce the Pod and themselves with a series of (overly personal) questions, “Speed Dating” style.

Discover their most anticipated horror films of 2019, who Trace’s first celebrity crush was, which gay sports Joe doesn’t play and, in a highly contentious and thoroughly scientific debate, which Hollywood Chris truly is the best!

Episode 2 – Scream

“Straight” out of the gate, Joe and Trace tackle the biggest horror film franchise of the 90s: Wes Craven’s 1996 revisionist slasher Scream. Join the guys as they unpack all of the film’s queer elements, including its metatextual references, its strong (read: bitchy) female characters, its “out” queer screenwriter and Billy & Stu’s beautiful bro-mance of a love that dare not speak its name.

Also: Joe makes Trace play F/M/K with the film’s male cast in the first of our wide-ranging (and mostly inane) podcast games.

Episode 3 – Hostel

Three episodes in and Joe and Trace are already ready for a vacation…in straight white homophobic hell. That’s right, we’re RIPPING into Eli Roth’s notorious 2004 torture porn flick Hostel, drilling down into the Josh/Salad Fingers relationship and questioning if Roth, the film or the characters are homophobic.  Mostly the guys just lament how much better Part Two is.

Plus: in this week’s game Joe forces Trace to play “Archive or Trash It” with Roth’s filmography.

Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with us on Twitter using the hashtag #HorrorQueers.

> Trace: @tracedthurman

> Joe: @bstolemyremote

And be sure to check out all of our online articles right here.

If you’d like to let us know something that can’t be relayed in a Tweet (be it corrections, suggestions, fan mail, hate mail, etc.), send us an email at horrorqueers@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

Joe & Trace

A journalist for Bloody Disgusting since 2015, Trace writes film reviews and editorials, as well as co-hosts Bloody Disgusting's Horror Queers podcast, which looks at horror films through a queer lens. He has since become dedicated to amplifying queer voices in the horror community, while also injecting his own personal flair into film discourse. Trace lives in Austin, TX with his husband and their two dogs. Find him on Twitter @TracedThurman

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John Carpenter’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ Is Flawed But Undeniably Original [Halloweenies Podcast]

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John Carpenter is back with a new album next week: Lost Themes IV: Noir.

To celebrate, the Halloweenies are unlocking their past episode from January 2022 on the maestro’s 1987 relic, Prince of Darkness. Join Michael Roffman, Dan Caffrey, McKenzie Gerber, and Rachel Reeves in the basement of a Los Angeles monastery as they decipher their feelings on the curious case study of the crossroads between science and faith.

Together, they debate whether or not this intriguing intersection overpowers the narrative and characters, chart where this fits in Carpenter’s overall oeuvre, and meditate on a few what-ifs in the casting department. They also marvel at the pulsing score, discuss its parallels to Inferno, and try to make sense of the mythos at the center.

So, go to the mirror and listen below. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, and Chucky. This year? Alien.

You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gremlins), one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals (e.g. Saw, The Changeling), and even topical spinoffs like this past summer’s greatest adventure Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.

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