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[Horror Queers Podcast] External Wombs and Killer Dwarves in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Brood’

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The last few weeks on the Horror Queers Podcast have resulted in plenty of great discussions and hilarious shenanigans. We’ve suffered through the misogyny and bees in Neil LaBute’s 2006 remake of The Wicker Man, taken our first journey into video game adaptations with 2014’s Fatal Frame and discussed male-on-male rape (and pig-fucking) in Calvaire.

In the newest episode Joe and I are discussing David Cronenberg‘s classic film The Brood, which follows a man (Art Hindle) uncovering an eccentric psychologist’s (Oliver Reed) therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife (Samantha Eggar), amidst a series of brutal murders committed by a brood of deformed dwarves.

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Episode 21 – The Brood (1979)

Joe drags Trace back to Canada-land to re-visit David Cronenberg’s oeuvre with The Brood, an incredibly light-hearted movie about a woman who births deformed killer dwarves through an external womb. 

This week, Joe goes through a lot. Not only does he imagine what his life would be like if David Cronenberg and David Lynch were his two daddies, but he also managed to stick his finger in an electrical socket before the recording began, thereby making his audio sound all staticky.

Trace gets off a bit easier as he is forced to contemplate just what exactly a “milk and orange juice drawer” is, second guess himself on Dr. Raglan’s sexual orientation and deal with his dogs taking over his recording studio.

It’s a fun time for everyone!

Cross out The Brood!

Coming up Wednesday: We delve into experimental soft-core pornography with Bruce LaBruce’s 2008 queer zombie film Otto; or, Up With Dead People. Haven’t seen it? Never fear! It’s currently streaming on Amazon!

– Joe & Trace

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A journalist for Bloody Disgusting since 2015, Trace writes film reviews and editorials, as well as co-hosts Bloody Disgusting's Horror Queers podcast, which looks at horror films through a queer lens. He has since become dedicated to amplifying queer voices in the horror community, while also injecting his own personal flair into film discourse. Trace lives in Austin, TX with his husband and their two dogs. Find him on Twitter @TracedThurman

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The Double ‘Othering’ of David in ‘An American Werewolf in London’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

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After concluding March with Raja Gosnell’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (listen) and James Whale’s The Invisible Man (listen), we kicked off April with a discussion of  Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen).
Now we’re checking off another classic with John Landis‘ 1981 werewolf film, An American Werewolf in London.
In the film, American best friends David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are horrifically attacked while backpacking through the UK Moors. Jack is killed and David spends a month recuperating in the hospital, where he befriends attractive nurse Alex (Jenny Agutter) and kindly Dr. Hirsch (John Woodvine).
On the cusp of his release, the mangled corpse of Jack visits David, warning that on the full moon he will become a lycanthrope unless he kills himself. But David is unable to accept his fate and a series of terrible murders follow.
As the bodies (and the comedy) pile up, the question becomes: what will David, Alex, and Dr. Hirsch do to stop the deaths?
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Episode 277: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Try not to wolf out because we’re talking about John Landis’ classic, An American Werewolf in London (1981). Backpacking along with us is Xero Gravity, who went on a werewolf binge and has recommendations!
Up for discussion: Alex’s underdeveloped character, urban set pieces, dirty movie theaters, and British rural horror.
Plus: a queer reading of David and Jack’s relationship, Jewish horror, an unsexy sex scene, and extended tangents about werewolf anatomy.

Cross out An American Werewolf in London!

Coming up on Wednesday: We’re undergoing a risky experimental treatment for a “different” kind of child with Netflix’s 2019 title, Eli.

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