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‘Horror Queers’ Podcast Launched, Listen Now!
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 Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Libsyn 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.
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Sincerely,
Joe & Trace
Aaliyah Innocent.
May was a busy subgenre-switching month. After kicking things off with disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen), we watched American Giallo The Fan (listen), then wrapped things up with Vincent Price’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (listen).
Now, in honor of Pride Month and the return of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (renamed The Vampire Lestat for S03), Trace and I had to check out the straight-washed second attempt to bring Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to life.
Back in 2002, director Michael Rymer pitched Hollywood on his vision for Rice’s second Chronicle book, The Vampire Lestat. Instead, the suits opted to adapt the third book, Queen of the Damned (likely due to the ancillary opportunities of the soundtrack, written entirely by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis).
In the film, Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens from slumber to reinvent himself as a leather-pant-wearing rocker. Lestat’s very public vampire persona attracts the attention of Talamasca novice Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), as well as the vampire’s maker Marius (Vincent Perez). But the nu-metal has the greatest impact on Akasha (Aaliyah), who awakens and promises to take over the world if her old foe Maharet (Lena Olin) doesn’t stop her.
Whose side will Lestat join? Will Marius help his fledgling or abandon him to public sacrifice? And does anyone actually care about Jesse? (Please note: that last question is rhetorical.)
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, and RSS.
Episode 389: Queen of the Damned (2002)
Practice your Egyptian accent and bare that midriff because we are talking the troubled “adaptation” of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned (2002).
Directed by Australian Michael Rymer, this one was doomed by the suits before it was even greenlit (which happened AFTER all of the songs were written by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis). It’s a bit of a clusterfuck.
Plus: praising everything Aaliyah (RIP); critiquing everything Stuart Townsend (aside from his abs and leather pants); a soft queer reading of Marius; and bemoaning boring protagonist/audience surrogate JESSE.
Cross out Queen of the Damned!
Coming Up Next: We’re tackling Ben Stiller’s horror-adjacent dark comedy The Cable Guy (1996), in anticipation of its 30th anniversary!
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