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[Horror Queers Podcast] Sing Your Heart Out in the Underwhelming ‘Stage Fright’!
Sing your heart out.
The last few weeks on the Horror Queers Podcast have resulted in plenty of great discussions and hilarious shenanigans. We’ve questioned the problematic cross-dressing virgin-killer in Cherry Falls, considered cannibalism as a metaphor for homosexuality in Ravenous and drooled over Delphine Seyrig’s fierce queer vampire in Daughters of Darkness.
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In the newest episode, we dive into the world of horror musicals to discuss Jerome Sable’s 2014 film Stage Fright and its Kabuki-themed production of The Phantom of the Opera ripoff “The Haunting of the Opera”. Admittedly, we probably should have picked a better film. How do you make a slasher musical comedy that isn’t funny or scary, and doesn’t have any catchy tunes? We aim to find out! It’s not all bad, though. The film has some great kills and a few clever jokes. They’re just not enough to save this mess of a film.
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Episode 14 – Stage Fright (2014)
The boys have got pipes and they’re FIERCE! That’s right, this week they’re headed to Center Stage: Camp for the Performing Arts to audition for the revival of “The Haunting of the Opera”! That’s right, we’re discussing Jerome Sable’s slasher musical comedy Stage Fright! But mostly, we just want to know what went wrong with this film. It’s neither funny nor scary, and it doesn’t even have any good songs!
How do you have musical numbers, gory kills, (attempted) satire, Meat Loaf and Minnie Driver and still end up with this mess of a film? The Horror Queers aim to find out, all while testing out their own singing abilities, contemplating the utter uselessness of Camilla as a Final Girl and the film’s incredibly anti-climactic killer reveal.
Plus, why did Trace decide to drink half a bottle of wine before recording (and the other half during)? We will never know. What we do know is that drunk Trace discussing a film he doesn’t like is mean.
Cross out Stage Fright!
Coming up Wednesday: we look at the role a sibling (or siblings) can play in the coming-out process as we discuss Mike Flanagan’s 2014 film Oculus.
– 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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