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Why ‘Scream 3’ Was Doomed From the Beginning [Horror Queers Podcast]
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December wound up being pretty hectic between our festive entries in Krampus, Better Watch Out and Terror Train, but now that it’s January, it’s time to continue the tradition of ringing in the new year with an installment of the Scream franchise.
This time around it’s the complicated, challenging production that birthed Scream 3 (2000).
In the first entry in the Scream franchise written by someone other than Kevin Williamson, Sidney (Neve Campbell) is hiding out under an assumed named in the woods while Dewey (David Arquette) and Gale (Courteney Cox) become involved in a new string of murders plaguing the Hollywood set of Stab 3.
Along for the ride is MVP Parker Posey as Gale stand-in Jennifer Jolie, a baby faced Emily Mortimer, (a miscast?) Scott Foley, and Patrick Dempsey as a truly terrible red herring.
Wes Craven directs from a script by unorthodox choice Ehren Kruger.
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Episode 107 – Scream 3 (2000)
The third year of the pod kicks off with our annual tradition: a Scream film! Scream 3 (2000) is arguably the least popular film in the franchise, but it’s due for a critical reappraisal as we unpack all of its challenges, including no script, an in-demand Neve Campbell, post-Columbine timing, a move to comedic Hollywood and studio interference (the Weinsteins again!)
Thankfully we have Parker Posey, Patrick Dempsey’s luscious hair, an ambitious – if misguided – attempt to retcon the root of all of Sid’s trauma and a post #MeToo reckoning that makes the film quite prescient.
For a good time, throw in a game of toot it or boot it, Trace’s confusion over the expression “Red Shirts”, and a Meryl Streep blaxploitation film. Plus: how many times will we say the words Scooby-Doo? Welcome to our third year!
Cross out Scream 3!
Coming up on Wednesday: Our month of 3s continues as we stick around the 90s for the wacky, over the top action of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)!
– 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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