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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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Game Loop.
Trace and I inadvertently bookended our April discussions of John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London (listen) and Ciarán Foy’s Eli (listen) with Jude Law films. At the start of the month, we tackled Matt Damon’s Italian grifter in The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen) and now we’re closing out April with David Cronenberg‘s eXistenZ (1999).
The unofficial sequel to Videodrome (listen) and precursor to Crimes of the Future, eXistenZ takes place in the world of virtual reality and simulation. Game goddess Allegra Gellar (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is forced to go on the run with PR nerd Ted Pikul (Jude Law) through the Canadian backwoods when ‘Realist’ terrorists declare open season on her life.
Featuring no shortage of strange encounters and oddball characters, including Willem Dafoe‘s queer-coded Gas and Canadian film royalty like Don McKellar and Sarah Polley, Allegra and Ted must travel between the real world and the game world, all the while keeping track of who is friendly…and who is foe.
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Episode 279: eXistenZ (1999) feat Vannah Taylor
Lube up your industry standard bio-port because we’re playing David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999) with someone friendly: Vannah Taylor!
David Cronenberg’s meditation on the dangers of gaming and simulation is the middle entry of an unofficial trilogy. It’s also a film that gets real confusing, real fast, so good luck figuring out if we’re still in the game!
Plus: criticisms of a “bland” game world, praise for Jennifer Jason Leigh, Canadian royalty, comparisons to Serenity, disgusting gristle guns, and Pikul getting his back blown out (several times!)
Cross out eXistenZ!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re continuing our celebration of 1999 films with a look at Stephen Sommers’ bisexual awakening, action adventure film, The Mummy (1999).
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