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Un-Queering a Queer Text in ‘Diabolique’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Watch Out for Neematoads!
March has seen quite a bit of whiplash for the Horror Queers, tonally speaking. After kicking off the month with our first parody in Scary Movie 2, we went after some comfort horror last week with Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Now we’re putting our academic caps on to discuss Henri-Georges Clouzot‘s 1955 masterpiece of suspense: Diabolique!
In Diabolique, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse), becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo — his meek wife (Véra Clouzot) and the mistress he brazenly flaunts (Simone Signoret). The women, brought together by their mutual hatred for the man, pull off the crime but become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Michel’s corpse mysteriously disappears.
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Episode 117 – Diabolique (1955)
Take out your enormous contact lenses because we’re discussing Henri-Georges Clouzot’s seminal 1955 chiller Diabolique! Joining us for the conversation are Jazz & Kat of the Girl, That’s Scary! podcast!
Join us as we laud this horror film/revenge drama/ghost story/queer-ish love story and praise one of its co-leads (the wonderful Simone Signoret), while we question the acting abilities of “Heart Attack Girl,” aka Mrs. Véra Clouzot (in a role given to her by her husband: the film’s writer/director).
Throughout the episode, we’ll compare Christina to Julie James, plan a movie night with Diabolique, Bound, Wild Things and Thelma & Louise and (of course) talk about that incredible twist ending.
Plus: neematoads, child-slapping, gaslighting, ghost suits and a 1996 remake with Sharon Stone (spoiler alert: it’s pretty good!)!
Cross out Diabolique!
Coming up on Wednesday: Pull your school uniform out because we’re traveling back to the year 2000 to study the homoeroticism between Paul Walker and Joshua Jackson in The Skulls!
– Joe & Trace
P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for tons of additional content! In March we’re doing a hillbilly horror theme with episodes on the remakes of Wrong Turn, The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as the controversial episode of The X-Files: “Home”.
Hoot Hoot, Bitch.
After discussing the positive queer representation in John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! and the queer safe space of Midian at the center of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, we’re heading over to Italy to wax poetic over Michele Soavi‘s 1987 giallo-cum-slasher Stage Fright!
In the film, a narcissistic director (David Brandon) locks a group of stage actors in a theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.
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, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS.
Episode 191: Stage Fright (1987)
Get ready to sell your ass in the men’s room because we’re getting locked in a theatre with a theatre troupe in Michele Soavi’s giallo-cum-slasher Stage Fright (1987)! Joining us for the conversation is Arrow Video contributor and the Fragments of Fear Podacast co-host Rachael Nisbet!
After trying to figure out why Stage Fright is included in lists of gialli, we go all in on Soavi’s directorial debut and discuss how his tutelage from Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava fueled his creative vision for this film.
Plus, a subversive opening scene, another dull final girl, a delightfully sassy gay character, horny orderlies, one enormous skeleton key, face-level glory holes and…toilet troubles? Hoot hoot, bitch.
Cross out Stage Fright!
Coming up on Wednesday: Take some dramamine because we’re heading to the open seas to check in with Mr. Winslow, Mr. Wake and a pesky seagull in Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse (2019).
P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for more than 195 hours of additional content! This month, we’re discussing Netflix’s Resident Evil series, Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator film Prey, Peacock’s queer slasher They/Them and A24’s queer murder mystery Bodies Bodies Bodies. Oh, and we’ve got an audio commentary on Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon just in time for its 25th anniversary!
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