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[Horror Queers Podcast] Party Like It’s 1999 With ‘The Rage: Carrie 2’
Looks can kill….asshole teenagers.
The last few weeks on the Horror Queers Podcast (we launched back in mid-January) have resulted in plenty of great discussions and hilarious shenanigans. We’ve tackled Jessica Rothe’s delightful performance in out-and-proud director Christopher Landon‘s 2017 horror-comedy Happy Death Day, brought in a third to discuss the lesbian Rosemary’s Baby-esque film Lyle and discussed the toxic friendship at the center of Always Shine.
In the newest episode, we travel back to 1999 to reevaluate Katt Shea‘s (Poison Ivy) supernatural sequel The Rage: Carrie 2. The film sees Carrie White’s (Sissy Spacek) younger half-sister Rachel (Emily Bergl) discovering her telekinetic powers after her best friend Lisa (Mena Suvari) kills herself. Why does she kill herself, you ask? Well, she learns that the popular guy she recently had sex with (Home Improvement‘s Zachery Ty Bryan) used her to win a game the football team plays where they sleep with girls and receive points.
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Episode 10 – The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Since the boys got a late start to Women in Horror Month, they’ve decided to continue it into the first week of March! Next up is Katt Shea’s under-appreciated and ahead-of-its-time film The Rage: Carrie 2.
Join Joe and Trace as they take a deep dive into the troubled production of this much-maligned sequel. Topics on the table include but are not limited to: the truly despicable teenage characters, an enormous stuffed dog, Amy Irving’s completely ineffectual guidance counselor, and Mena Suvari’s predilection for projects with the word “American” in the title. And yes, they do address the fact that the remains of the OG Bates High School are still there for some reason.
On a more serious note, they also discuss their experiences with bullying, narrowing them down to what they refer to as their “Carrie Moment.”
Cross out The Rage: Carrie 2!
Coming up Wednesday: we fast forward to the year 2000 with an episode on Geoffrey Wright‘s “kill the virgins” slasher film Cherry Falls, which stars the late (and great) Brittany Murphy and features a somewhat problematic cross-dressing killer.
– Joe & Trace
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After kicking off July with discussions of Joe Dante’s seminal werewolf film The Howling (listen) and Ken Russell’s controversial erotic thriller Crimes of Passion (listen), we’re heading to Maine to dissect one of Stephen King‘s most misguided adaptations in Lawrence Kasdan‘s 2003 misfire Dreamcatcher!
Dreamcatcher sees friends Henry (Thomas Jane), Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and Beaver (Jason Lee) reunite for their annual hunting trip in Maine. Their reunion is cut short when they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between a hostile race of farty-farty aliens and an elite US military unit led by Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman), who has been driven mad after spending decades tracking the extraterrestrials. When Jonesy is possessed by one of the aliens, the remaining friends seek out their disabled childhood friend Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), who they believe has powers that can save Jonesy…and the world.
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Episode 396: Dreamcatcher (2003)
Watch out for “ister gay” (oof), take some Gas-X and bite our bags because we’re talking Lawrence Kasdan’s baffling 2003 adaptation of Stephen King’s equally baffling novel Dreamcatcher.
Join us as we go all in on the farty-farty aliens populating this hilarious misfire that often feels like a bad Kevin Smith script. It’s a film filled with characters who get a single defining trait (if they’re lucky), played by respectable actors who are here for the paycheck (looking at you, Morgan Freeman).
Plus: blown-out assholes, using guns as telephones, pitying poor Donnie Wahlberg, and wondering why the hell this movie is called Dreamcatcher.
Cross out Dreamcatcher!
Coming Up Next: We’re going to be lounging around a posh Greenwich Village apartment as we check in on Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).
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