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[Horror Queers Podcast] Love – and Boredom – Is in the Air With ‘Single White Female’
After a month of anniversaries when we discussed Scream 2, Hostel: Part II, All Cheerleaders Die and The Boy Next Door, last week Trace and I moved into birthday month with Hellraiser: Bloodline. Most recently though, we had to hit pause so that we could celebrate love and Valentine’s Day AND Women in Horror Month.
And what better way to do that than by revisiting Single White Female, the film that launched a thousand orange bowl cuts, with our friends Amy Kasio and Amy Ketchum over at Double A Horror Highway?
This is a film that pits Jennifer Jason Leigh‘s Heddy against her hot, perennially boy-obsessed roommate Ally (Bridget Fonda) in a plot to steal her look, her man (Steven Weber), her puppy and maybe even her life. It’s a classic of the stalker subgenre, although it is a touch lite on the drama, the conflict and the scares.
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Episode 60 – Single White Female (1992) feat. Double A Horror Highway
We’re kicking off Women in Horror Month with a confusing and frankly boring erotic thriller about a threatening lesbian roommate, written by a gay man, for straight male audiences. Joining us for the ride are the two Amys (Kasio and Ketchum) of Double A Horror Highway, who help to unpack the film’s mushroom cut hairstyles, portable computing devices and why neither Bridget Fonda or Jennifer Jason Leigh’s characters own any furniture.
Also up for discussion: un-sexy sex clubs, showing (but not using) the incinerator, whether Heddy is a true lesbian or mentally ill (or a mentally ill lesbian) and speculation about why the film tries to redeem every terrible character, including the rapist played by Stephen Tobolowsky!
So little of Single White Female makes sense that we struggled to retain even the most basic plot points. Toss this film out the window like a puppy!
Cross out Single White Female!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re continuing Women in Horror Month by revisiting the most controversial film in the New French Extremity, Martyrs (2008).
– Joe & Trace
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Shakespearean Education in the Vincent Price-Starring ‘Theater of Blood’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Butch knows best…
After concluding May with discussions of the disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen) and Michael Biehn’s demon twink in the messy-but-watchable The Fan (listen), we’re heading back to the ’70s to discuss our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox‘s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973).
In Theater of Blood, Vincent Price stars as Edward Lionheart, a disgraced Shakespearean actor who begins targeting the critics who shamed him. The gimmick? He’s taking inspiration from the death scenes in William Shakespeare’s plays! Aiding him is his daughter Edwina (Diana Rigg), who acts as the honeypot for her father’s macabre scheme.
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Episode 388: Theater of Blood (1973)
Brush up on your Shakespeare and protect those poodles because we’re covering our very first Vincent Price film in Douglas Hickox’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (1973), a personal favorite of both Price and Diana Rigg.
Join us as we go all in on this somewhat episodic (but also educational!) proto-slasher, wondering if we’re supposed to know that’s Diana Rigg in hippie drag, and cackling at some of these murder set pieces.
Plus, “Handsy Dickman,” narcissistic gravestones, antisemitic stage makeup, and the ultimate debate: is it theatER or theatRE?
C/W: Attempted suicide, off-screen dog murder.
Cross out Theater of Blood!
Coming Up Next: We’re celebrating the premiere of AMC’s The Vampire Lestat with a look at the much-maligned 2002 adaptation Queen of the Damned!
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