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[Horror Queers Podcast] Celebrating ‘Jawbreaker’ (and Our Big Sticks)
Cock Socks, Poppers and…..Jawbreaker?
The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving have taken us on a rather kooky ride! First, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Interview With the Vampire with a look at the homoerotic subtext between Louis (Brad Pitt) and Lestat (Tom Cruise), then we looked at the homoerotic text between Walter (Michael Fassbender) and David (Michael Fassbender) in Ridley Scott’s 2017 sequel Alien: Covenant and how we’re changing things up a bit with a praise session for Darren Stein‘s 1999 black comedy Jawbreaker! Yes, we’re fully aware that this technically isn’t a horror film (though it started out as one!), but it’s our podcast and we’ll cover what we want to. Dammit.
In the film, three of the most popular girls at Reagan High (Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz) accidentally kill their best friend (Charlotte Ayanna) with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong. They are soon found out by Fern Mayo (Judy Greer), the nerdiest girl in school, and must silence her with a makeover and the promise of popularity.
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Episode 49 – Jawbreaker (1999)
Everything is peachy fucking keen as the Horror Queers take a field trip to Reagan High to figure out the mystery behind Liz Purr and the mysterious jawbreaker lodged in her throat! In what is admittedly an unusual film to cover in a horror podcast, Joe and Trace grab their Big Sticks and dive into the legacy that Darren Stein’s Jawbreaker has left behind.
How did this critical and commercial failure become the cult phenomenon that it is? Did it really rip off Heathers? Or was it ripped off by Mean Girls? Does it really matter? Why is Rose McGowan so perfect? And what if it had been a horror film, as Stein originally intended?
In this week’s game: Who would win in a fight: Cruel Intentions‘ Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) or Jawbreaker‘s Courtney Shane (Rose McGowan)?
Cross out Jawbreaker!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re celebrating our 50th episode to see if the truth is out there as we watch the much-maligned sequel The X-Files: I Want To Believe!
– Joe & Trace
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