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Wacky Colors and Nuns Aplenty in ‘Psycho III’! [Horror Queers Podcast]

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Mother 2.0.

Our month of 3s (to celebrate the podcast’s third year of existence) started with a bang with our longest episode ever (on Wes Craven’s Scream 3), and then got weird with Anthony Hickox’s Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth. So what better way to celebrate our third week of 3s than with Anthony Perkins‘ directorial debut: the darkly comedic slasher Psycho III?

In the film, which takes place one month after the events of Psycho II, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is still running the Bates Motel with the corpse of Emma Spool still sitting up in the house. A suicidal nun (Diana Scarwid), with whom Norman falls in love, comes to the motel along with a drifter named Duane Duke (Jeff Fahey). A reporter (Roberta Maxwell) also tries to solve the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Spool as someone begins another murder spree.

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Episode 109 – Psycho 3 (1986)

We’re in our third week of 3s, and what better way to celebrate than with good ol’ Norman Bates himself in Anthony Perkins’ directorial debut Psycho III? Despite the film’s iconic opening line, there has to be a God, right? Otherwise, we wouldn’t have this darkly comedic entry in the Psycho franchise!

Join us as we delve deep into the closeted life of Anthony Perkins, look for queerness in his unique directing style (so many colors and fun transitions!), lament the rushed third act and become flabbergasted at one of the most incoherent exposition dumps ever put on film.

Plus, suicidal nuns, Jeff Fahey’s teeth, bloody ice, strategically placed purple lamps and the franchise’s very own Gale Weathers in Roberta Maxwell’s ambitious journalist Tracy Venable. This is a wild one, y’all!

Cross out Psycho III!

Coming up on Wednesday: Our month of 3s concludes as we discuss the controversial third entry in the Alien franchise with David Fincher’s Alien3 (1992)! Please note that we’ll be covering the Extended Cut of the film as opposed to the Theatrical Cut.

– Joe & Trace

P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for tons of additional content! We’ve already revealed the results of the 2020 Hereditaries (our horror version of the Oscars), warned of our audio commentary on Final Destination 3 and had an intense conversation about Promising Young Woman. We’ll close out the month with episodes on Servant (yay!) and The Stand (meh).

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A journalist for Bloody Disgusting since 2015, Trace writes film reviews and editorials, as well as co-hosts Bloody Disgusting's Horror Queers podcast, which looks at horror films through a queer lens. He has since become dedicated to amplifying queer voices in the horror community, while also injecting his own personal flair into film discourse. Trace lives in Austin, TX with his husband and their two dogs. Find him on Twitter @TracedThurman

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The Double ‘Othering’ of David in ‘An American Werewolf in London’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

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After concluding March with Raja Gosnell’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (listen) and James Whale’s The Invisible Man (listen), we kicked off April with a discussion of  Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (listen).
Now we’re checking off another classic with John Landis‘ 1981 werewolf film, An American Werewolf in London.
In the film, American best friends David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are horrifically attacked while backpacking through the UK Moors. Jack is killed and David spends a month recuperating in the hospital, where he befriends attractive nurse Alex (Jenny Agutter) and kindly Dr. Hirsch (John Woodvine).
On the cusp of his release, the mangled corpse of Jack visits David, warning that on the full moon he will become a lycanthrope unless he kills himself. But David is unable to accept his fate and a series of terrible murders follow.
As the bodies (and the comedy) pile up, the question becomes: what will David, Alex, and Dr. Hirsch do to stop the deaths?
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, and RSS.
Episode 277: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Try not to wolf out because we’re talking about John Landis’ classic, An American Werewolf in London (1981). Backpacking along with us is Xero Gravity, who went on a werewolf binge and has recommendations!
Up for discussion: Alex’s underdeveloped character, urban set pieces, dirty movie theaters, and British rural horror.
Plus: a queer reading of David and Jack’s relationship, Jewish horror, an unsexy sex scene, and extended tangents about werewolf anatomy.

Cross out An American Werewolf in London!

Coming up on Wednesday: We’re undergoing a risky experimental treatment for a “different” kind of child with Netflix’s 2019 title, Eli.

P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for over 302 hours of Patreon content including this month’s new episodes on Hannibal S01E04, Late Night with the Devil, The First Omen, Femme, Abigail and a brand new audio commentary on the original The Omen (1976).

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