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[Horror Queers Podcast] Celebrating Mother’s Day With Queer Baby Mama Drama in ‘Grace’
Call the Midwife.
Happy May, everyone! After looking at child molester Freddy Krueger in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Joe and I decided to discuss something a bit less gross and disgusting for Mother’s Day this year! Well, as long as you don’t consider zombie babies that drink blood gross and disgusting. That’s right, we’re discussing Paul Solet‘s criminally under-seen 2009 film Grace!
In the film, a pregnant Madeline (Jordan Ladd, Cabin Fever) is involved in a car accident that leave her husband and unborn child dead. Desperate to have a child after trying to have one for years, she decides to carry her baby to term anyway. The child, a girl, initially appears stillborn but is eventually revived and named “Grace”. When Grace develops unhealthy smells, attracts flies, and craves blood, it becomes clear that there is something wrong with her.
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Episode 72 – Grace (2009) feat. Anya Stanley
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! We’re celebrating this sacred holiday with a discussion of booby horror and queer baby mama drama in Paul Solet’s Grace! Joining us for the discussion is journalist and mother Anya Stanley, who brings some much-needed maternal instincts to the discussion. Fair warning, though: this is not a film to watch if you’re already pregnant..
Join us as we discuss the greatness that is the supremely underrated Jordan Ladd, as well as admire Solet’s use of sound design and lighting in the film. Plus, is the evil mother-in-law an example of unintentional camp? You tell us!
Also on the docket: a debate on how to pronounce the word “midwifery,” water births, Trace’s sore left nipple and learning to flambé while cooking liver and onions!
Cross out Grace!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re celebrating the VOD release of Scoob! with a double feature of 1998’s Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and its 2019 sequel Return to Zombie Island!
– Joe & Trace
P.S. Keep an eye out for this month’s article on 1986’s extremely upsetting In a Glass Cage, which will be dropping in the next week or so. You can find all of the old articles here.
P.P.S. As an added bonus, if you subscribe to our Patreon you can listen to bonus episodes! Since every new horror release has been delayed, we decided to go with a possession theme this month, so you can listen to full-length episodes on The Taking of Deborah Logan and Insidious, as well as an audio commentary on the unrated cut of 2013’s Evil Dead remake!
“This is life’s ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.”
Is there anything more terrifying than the relentless passage of time? It’s a bitter truth that just when we’ve become accustomed to our bodies, the sands of time turn and we’re forced to watch them slowly break down in a cruel march towards inevitable death. But what if there were a way to stop the aging process – a potion that would return us to our peak physical condition and hold us there until the end of time? Would we take it? And would we eventually find that the blessing of perpetual life is actually a curse? No film explores this dilemma quite like Death Becomes Her. Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 horror comedy pits two showstopping divas against each other for a single spotlight while asking what they would do for eternal youth – and what will be the hidden cost?
Madeline (Meryl Streep) and Helen (Goldie Hawn) are old frenemies with a history of vicious competition. Madeline seems to have won the most recent battle and married Helen’s fiance Ernest (Bruce Willis), but decades later, their marriage is on the rocks and Madeline’s once thriving career is now a thing of the past. When Helen returns with a stunning new look, Madeline turns to unorthodox methods to maintain her feminine dominance. She drinks a potion designed to give her eternal youth, but returns home to find her life turned upside down by her downtrodden husband and jealous “friend.” Having both taken the potion, “Mad” and “Hel” engage in a bitter fight to the death over years of petty snipes and the right to claim the title of Most Desirable Woman.
In their latest episode, The Lady Killers dissect these two glamorous killers and the hidden social commentary in Zemeckis’ iconic film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall dish over their own fears of aging, choose their favorite diva, and decide whether they would take the potion should they ever find themselves in Lisle’s (Isabella Rossellini) lavish home. How does the film hit differently when watching as an adult? Could Madeline, Helen, and Ernest ever make a polycule work? Is Lisle a hero or a villain and how does she keep that gorgeous necklace in place? They’ll wrestle with these questions and more in a podcasting shovel battle to the death on this unique horror comedy and one of the most glamorous casts of all time.
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