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[Horror Queers Podcast] House, Landscape and Regular Porn in ‘The Handmaiden’
Care for a scissor?
We are finally done with May, everyone! After celebrating Mother’s Day with Paul Solet’s criminally under-seen 2009 film Grace, getting nostalgic with the 1998 animated classic Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and dancing our hearts out in 1987’s Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, we’re closing out May with a heavier discussion of Park Chan-wook‘s 2016 masterpiece The Handmaiden.
In the film, which is set in 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, a young woman (Kim Tae-ri) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle (Cho Jin-woong). But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler (Ha Jung-woo) posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. Everything seems to be proceeding according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions.
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Episode 75 – The Handmaiden (2016) feat. Jenny Nulf
Hold on to your minling balls, because we’re heading to Japanese-occupied Korea with return guest Jenny Nulf (check out our previous episode on Fatal Frame) to discuss Park Chan-wook’s masterful and twisty film The Handmaiden.
After a brief history lesson, we dive right into this lengthy little film to marvel at how nothing in Park’s semi-loose adaptation of a Victorian era-set British novel gets lost in translation.
Topics up for discussion include: safe spaces for actors when filming explicit sex scenes, the practicality of scissoring, and various types of porn (house, landscape and regular). Oh, and octopuses.
Cross out The Handmaiden!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re kicking off Pride Month with a double feature as we trace the evolution of the queer slasher from 2004’s Hellbent to 2018’s Killer Unicorn!
– Joe & Trace
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Coming Soon & Now Showing is a monthly series on Halloweenies that catches up on the latest horror headlines and round robins capsule reviews of new and old horrors.
This month, Michael Roffman and Justin Gerber discuss the blockbuster weekend involving Backrooms and Obsession. They also brush on some franchise news and dust off oldies for the first time: 1987’s Dead of Winter and 1977’s False Face.
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