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[Horror Queers Podcast] So About That Shaving Scene in ‘Jason Goes to Hell’…
A real freaky Friday!
Joe and I left behind the world of femme fatales after we discussed the dynamics between teenage sociopaths Sadie and McKayla in Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls, the lesbian relationship at the heart of the Brazilian film Good Manners and queer icon Lola in Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones. After a brief detour to Derry, Maine with It: Chapter One last week, Joe and I are starting an eight-week marathon of campy horror films!
First up is Adam Marcus‘ 1993 grand slasher “finale” Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday! In what would ultimately not be the final film in the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason’s spirit leaves his body after the FBI blows it to bits and decides to possess other people as he seeks out a member of his family to possess so that he may be reborn. It’s about as stupid as it sounds.
Joining us on our camping trip to Crystal Lake is fellow Bloody Disgusting columnist Alice Collins, who broke into the BD scene with her exceptional “Trapped By Gender” column earlier this year. A self-proclaimed Jason Goes to Hell fanatic, Alice provides some much-needed backstory into the making of this weird little film.
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Episode 38 – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
The Horror Queers are getting a head start on Friday the 13th celebrations with a visit to Crystal Lake in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday! Joe and Trace are joined by fellow Bloody Disgusting columnist Alice Collins in an episode that might as well be called E! True Hollywood Story: Jason Goes to Hell. Together, they will try to do the impossible: make sense of a film that makes absolutely no sense.
Topics up for discussion are little girls in pink dresses sticking a hot dog through a donut, queer leather-daddy shaving fetishes, sensual hand-stroking and crazy-impressive gore effects. In a surprising twist, Joe admits to loving the film (despite not being a fan of the franchise), Trace talks about how screenwriters Dean Lorey and Jay Huguely stole the plot of the film from a story he wrote in the first grade and Alice spills the tea on most of the film’s production troubles.
Oh! Did they mention that this episode starts off an eight-week marathon of campy horror films? Because it does! So be prepared for seven more weeks of unintentionally funny horror films, most of which have very, very troubled production histories.
This Week’s Game: If you were a studio executive with $10 million and you had the rights, which dormant horror franchise would you order an off-brand installment of?
Cross out Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday!
Coming up Wednesday: Camp Month(s) continue as we look at the complete and utter clusterfuck that is Wes Craven‘s Cursed and its homo-repressed bully (Milo Ventimiglia)!
– 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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