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[Horror Queers Podcast] Celebrating Child Murder and Practical Effects in ‘The Blob’
It’s The Blob, baby!
Birthday month is now firmly in the rearview mirror. Despite all of the fun and games that Trace and I had with Hellraiser: Bloodline and Zombeavers (plus Single White Female and Martyrs), it’s time to move on to March.
That means crossing Chuck Russell‘s quintessential 80s remake, The Blob, off my Horror Bucket List. Thankfully Trace and I get some extra special help from fellow Bloody Disgusting scribe (and self-proclaimed The Blob fanatic), Meagan Navarro.
In the remake, a deadly entity crashes near the small town of Arborville and begins to consume anyone in its path. Panic ensues, as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature. Now, the only thing that stands between the town’s total annihilation is the curious pairing of town bad boy Brian Flagg (Kevin Dillon) and cheerleader Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith), who must work together to stop the rapidly growing gelatinous monstrosity once and for all.
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Episode 63 – The Blob (1988)
The boys don their mullets and leather jackets for a one way trip to Arborville and something pink, purple and gooey! Along for the (motorcycle) ride is fellow Bloody Disgusting writer Meagan Navarro, who is a huge fan of the practical effects wizardry in what is arguably one of the best horror remakes ever.
This film has EVERYTHING: small character moments, subversion of expectations, and a plethora of gnarly deaths/set pieces.
Plus: Trace’s love of Shawnee Smith, an extended conversation on the value of a locked door, discussion of those FX and a death that Trace and Meagan can’t believe Joe missed!
Cross out The Blob!
Coming up on Wednesday: The first Friday the 13th of 2020 demands a sacrifice to the slasher gods, so we’re headed back to space with 2001’s Jason X!
– Joe & Trace
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After kicking off July with discussions of Joe Dante’s seminal werewolf film The Howling (listen) and Ken Russell’s controversial erotic thriller Crimes of Passion (listen), we’re heading to Maine to dissect one of Stephen King‘s most misguided adaptations in Lawrence Kasdan‘s 2003 misfire Dreamcatcher!
Dreamcatcher sees friends Henry (Thomas Jane), Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and Beaver (Jason Lee) reunite for their annual hunting trip in Maine. Their reunion is cut short when they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between a hostile race of farty-farty aliens and an elite US military unit led by Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman), who has been driven mad after spending decades tracking the extraterrestrials. When Jonesy is possessed by one of the aliens, the remaining friends seek out their disabled childhood friend Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), who they believe has powers that can save Jonesy…and the world.
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Episode 396: Dreamcatcher (2003)
Watch out for “ister gay” (oof), take some Gas-X and bite our bags because we’re talking Lawrence Kasdan’s baffling 2003 adaptation of Stephen King’s equally baffling novel Dreamcatcher.
Join us as we go all in on the farty-farty aliens populating this hilarious misfire that often feels like a bad Kevin Smith script. It’s a film filled with characters who get a single defining trait (if they’re lucky), played by respectable actors who are here for the paycheck (looking at you, Morgan Freeman).
Plus: blown-out assholes, using guns as telephones, pitying poor Donnie Wahlberg, and wondering why the hell this movie is called Dreamcatcher.
Cross out Dreamcatcher!
Coming Up Next: We’re going to be lounging around a posh Greenwich Village apartment as we check in on Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).
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