Podcasts
Ringing in the New Year With ‘Terror Train’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Sixpence None the Kenny-er.
After having some holiday fun with Krampus and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, we got serious with Better Watch Out before taking a slight holiday break with The Cell. Now, we’re ringing in the new year with Roger Spottiswoode‘s classic 1980 slasher Terror Train.
In Terror Train, a fraternity of pre-med students has a particularly sinister prank in store for one their more timid pledges, Kenny Hampson (Derek MacKinnon). With the help of coed Alana Maxwell (Jamie Lee Curtis), the prank has such disastrous results that Kenny needs to be institutionalized. After several years pass and people forget the incident, those involved with the prank are ready to celebrate their graduation by having a costume party on a train; but someone on board knows what they did and wants to make them pay.
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Episode 106 – Terror Train (1980)
Happy New Year, everyone! We’re hopping aboard a party train to ring in the new year with Roger Spottiswoode’s Jamie Lee Curtis-starring slasher film Terror Train! Joining us for the bash are Chris Moore and Kevin Jones, the co-hosts of the Homos on Haunted Hill podcast!
Join us as we discuss the slasher go-to of pranks being the reason for someone killing a bunch of horny dumb-dumbs, read into the queer coding of Doc (Hart Bochner….again!) and Mo (Timothy Webber), and instigate the #JusticeForMitchy movement.
Plus: yearbooks in college? Another cross-dressing serial killer? Lots of magic with David Copperfield! And how about that 2008 would-be remake starring Thora Birch?
Oh, and if you’d like to read the interview with Derek MacKinnon (Kenny Hampson) that we reference in the episode, you can do so here.
Cross out Terror Train!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re kicking off the new year (and our podcast’s third year of existence) with a marathon of 3s! That’s right, we’ll be watching third entries in major horror franchises throughout all of January and we’re kicking things off with the much-maligned Scream 3!
– Joe & Trace
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Podcasts
Freddy’s Back, So Is Jason, ‘Hellraiser’ Goes to Horror Nights, and ‘The Odyssey’ [Halloweenies Podcast]
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 week, Michael Roffman and McKenzie Gerber hit up Elm Street, Haddonfield, and Crystal Lake before braving the high seas to discuss the horrors within Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. They also review this year’s Exit 8 and Forbidden Fruits before dusting off old classics for the first time in 2020’s Caveat and 1985’s The Mean Season.
Stream the episode below. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, Chucky, Alien, and the Universal Monsters.This year? Hellraiser!
You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Re-Animator, Darkman), one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals (e.g. Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Manhunter, ), and even spinoffs like their recent run Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.