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[Horror Queers Podcast] No Virgin is Safe in the Town of ‘Cherry Falls’
Kill your virgins.
The last few weeks on the Horror Queers Podcast have resulted in plenty of great discussions and hilarious shenanigans. We’ve brought in a third to discuss the lesbian Rosemary’s Baby-esque film Lyle, discussed the toxic friendship at the center of Always Shine and defended the underrated 1999 supernatural sequel The Rage: Carrie 2.
In the newest episode, we are joined by special guest Brennan Klein to discuss the troubled production of Geoffrey Wright’s slasher film Cherry Falls, which focuses on a small town where a serial killer is stalking virgins. The film, which was the most expensive TV movie ever made at the time, stars Michael Biehn and the late Brittany Murphy.
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Episode 11 – Cherry Falls (2000)
It’s a regular Hymen Holocaust this week as Joe and Trace detour into Cherry Falls, a place where no virgin is safe and problematic cross-dressing serial killers reside. They pick up special guest Brennan Klein (co-host of Scream 101 podcast and producer of Blumhouse’s Attack of the Queerwolf!), who chimes in with his thoughts on all things related to Michael Biehn’s “Biehn-pole.”
The guys discuss the overt sexual tension between Brittany Murphy and Biehn (they’re father and daughter!), foot-sucking fetishes and the use of dildos and model sharks as weapons. Also up for debate: What exactly counts as sex in the climactic teen orgy? We have to know!
CLASS DISMISSED!
Cross out Cherry Falls!
Coming up Wednesday: we look at cannibalism as a metaphor for homosexuality in Antonia Bird’s Ravenous, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow.
– 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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