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[Horror Queers Podcast] We’re Reaching (Again!) With Billy Zane’s Gay Collector in ‘Demon Knight’!
A Perfect Movie with Titties in It.
In case you’ve missed out on some of our recent episode: we’ve pissed a bunch of you off by proclaiming Kerr Smith‘s Carter as a repressed homosexual in Final Destination. Then we defended the controversial and widely-maligned slasher sequel Seed of Chucky. And finally, we got a little too deep into a discussion of bodily fluids during our discussion of Ginger Snaps.
This week, Joe and I are joined by Sarah-Tai Black and continuing our franchise marathon with a discussion of Ernest Dickerson‘s (Bones) booby-filled Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight! In the film, Brayker (William Sadler) is on the run from a demon known as The Collector (Billy Zane), who is after a Biblical artifact that could lead to demons controlling the world. After seeking refuge in a run-down church, Brayker teams up with local convict (and totally queer) Jeryline (Jada Pinkett) to stop The Collector before he can get his hands on the precious artifact.
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Episode 27 – Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight (1995)
Hello Kiddies! The Horror Queers are joined by Tales from the Crypt expert Sarah-Tai Black to discuss the booby-filled 1995 banger Demon Knight! In what may be their most tangent-filled episode yet, they not only code Billy Zane’s Collector as gay and Jada Pinkett’s Jeryline (a name that no character pronounces the same way) as a “soft butch” lesbian, but they also proclaim the queer icon status of the Crypt Keeper!
Trace tries to decipher the rules of the demons (they’re so contradictory!). Sarah-Tai gets a Bible study lesson. And Joe is dumbfounded by Sarah-Tai’s story of how Alan Cumming once bullied her at a roller rink (and a thong-clad Anna Paquin just stood there and let it happen).
Lastly, Joe cribs a lot of his supposed “knowledge” of Demon Knight from this wonderful article written by Stephanie Crawford.
This Week’s Game: What would a sequel to Demon Knight look like?
Cross out Demon Knight!
Coming up Wednesday: Just in time for the its 20th anniversary (and this Friday’s release of Crawl) we finally get to discuss some aquatic horror in Steve Miner’s (Friday the 13th Parts 2 and 3) horror comedy Lake Placid!
– 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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