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[Horror Queers Podcast] Celebrating ‘Jawbreaker’ (and Our Big Sticks)

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Horror Queers Jawbreaker

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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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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