Quaranhole.
What a wacky May it’s been! After starting things off with the utterly atrocious A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, we celebrated Mother’s Day with Paul Solet’s Grace, a film that terrifies every pregnant woman to the core, then we opened a few listeners’ eyes to the heavily queer coded gateway horror that is Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. For our second last episode of the month, we – along with special guest Leigh Monson – are celebrating every terrible prom with Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II.
In director Bruce Pittman‘s under appreciated Canadian slasher “sequel”, Prom Queen (and queer icon) Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) is inadvertently burned to death onstage and returns 30 years later to seek revenge on her two shitty boyfriends, Principal Billy (Michael Ironside) and Father Cooper (Richard Monette). Of course she needs a body, so why not possess virginal Vicki (Wendy Lyon), peg Vicki’s “bad boy” boyfriend Craig (Louis Ferreira) and turn her best friend Monica (Beverley Hendry) into naked locker goop?
This is the kind of gonzo sexual insanity we NEED to survive quarantine, so find yourself a horny rocking horse, give Daddy a kiss and ram a crucifix into someone’s mouth already!
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Episode 74 – Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 (1987) feat. Leigh Monson
Grab your tiara, your emerald gown and your murder cape because it’s prom season and the campaign to crown a Queen is vicious! Mary Lou Maloney is slaying the competition, bedding all of the boys and leaving her mark on the confessional wall…and on the stage. Joining the boys to discuss this Canadian slasher gem is Leigh Monson, who helps to unpack why Mary Lou is both a sex positive queer icon and a villain to root for.
Perhaps we’re possessed by the spirit of Mary Lou, but things get a little raunchy: we talk about the queer connotations of the naked shower sequence, Principal Billy’s son getting pegged, a sexy pony ride, and kissing your Daddy. Oh and Trace yearns for a clean glory hole experience…
Plus: a running gag about the film’s long legacy on future horror films, Leigh’s fondness for humping cut-outs, a lesson on Canadian film funding by Joe and why Trace is totally an Ursula.
Cross out Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re headed to Korea to revisit Park Chan-Wook’s 2016 period film, The Handmaiden, aka the film that inspired last year’s The Perfection!
– Joe & Trace
P.S. Check out this month’s article on 1986’s extremely upsetting In a Glass Cage. You can find all of the old articles here.
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