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[Horror Queers Podcast] Slashing into Long Delayed Sequel ‘Psycho 2’
Is this a secret Psycho 3 Episode?
The last few weeks on the Horror Queers Podcast we’ve drooled over Delphine Seyrig’s fierce queer vampire in Daughters of Darkness, questioned the sheer ineptitude of slasher musical Stage Fright. and explored the sibling relationship in Mike Flanagan’s “haunted mirror” film, Oculus.
In the newest episode, Trace and I are joined by Dead For Filth‘s Michael Varrati to tackle thoroughly underrated slasher sequel, Psycho 2. As a director himself, Michael brings a fresh perspective to the discussion about the economic realities of filmmaking, but the highlight of the episode is definitely his banter with Trace about the ridiculousness of the Psycho franchise, particularly Part 3!
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Episode 16 – Psycho 2 (1983) feat. Michael Varrati
After 23 years of driving, the boys pick up Dead For Filth’s multi-hyphenate Michael Varrati en route to a charming motel run by Anthony Perkins’ Norman Bates. The trio discuss the film’s categorization as a long in-development sequel, a slasher released during the height of the 80s craze and a cash grab.
Along the way they suggest that Meg Tilly’s tough, but thankless “tofu” role as Mary is a mirror image of Norman and propose that Psycho 2 succeeds where Halloween (2018) fails by truly investigating grief and trauma.
Come for the ridiculous number of sidebar references/jokes about Psycho 3 and stay for the game, which asks Michael and Trace to cast a sequel to Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake. Who does Trace name drop that irks Joe so much that Trace is banished to the corner? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Cross out Psycho 2!
Coming up Wednesday: we brave the bad dubbing and utter madness of the 1994 cult classic Cemetary Man (aka Dellamorte Dellamore) to get to the Rupert Everett-ness of it all.
– Joe & Trace
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On the DL.
After spending June on explicitly queer texts like Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (listen) and William Castle’s Homicidal (listen), it’s only appropriate that Horror Queers celebrate the American holiday with a blockbuster film with a not-so-secret gay connection.
In Independence Day, an unlikely group of people come together when the human race faces extinction from a threatening alien race. After spaceships destroy every major city, pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) must team up with secret tech genius David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), as well as the US President (Bill Pullman), to execute a daring plan to save the planet from annihilation.
Along for the ride are the two saviors’ romantic partners – WH Communications Director Constance (Margaret Colin) and stripper Jasmine (Vivica A. Fox) – plus eccentric scientist Dr. Okun (Brent Spiner), who is at the center of the film’s most horrific set piece.
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Episode 393: Independence Day (1996)
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day…courtesy of gay German director Roland Emmerich.
As the summer blockbuster celebrates its 30th anniversary, we’re looking back on an alien disaster film that scared young Trace (thanks to that alien autopsy scene) and turned Will Smith into a star.
Plus: the death that upsets the most; bemoaning Vivica A. Fox’s career; pondering what could have been with the casting; why Smith’s bravado and the film’s patriotism doesn’t always work for Joe; and plenty of riffing on the atrocious sequel.
Cross out Independence Day!
Coming Up Next: We’re retreating to the country for some questionable therapy courtesy of Joe Dante’s 1981 classic, The Howling!
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