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Joe Bob Briggs on the Impact of ‘Scream’ and the Future of the Slasher [Halloweenies Podcast]
The Last Drive-In host also suggests which horror sub-genre is ripe for the taking right now.
There’s a new suspect in Woodsboro, California. He’s tall. He’s got a Texas drawl. He’s brought a six-pack of Lone Star beer. And like everyone else in town, he’s looking to talk horror.
Yes, the one and only Joe Bob Briggs joins the Halloweenies to discuss the impact of Scream, the rise and fall of the slasher, and why everyone calls everything a masterpiece today.
He also discusses Season 3 of The Last Drive-In, which continues to win our Friday nights on Shudder, and teases some tricks and treats for the summer. Spoiler: It involves a real drive-in.
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl
Elsewhere, Joe Bob digresses on his recent Chainsaw Award win, suggests a horror sub-genre ripe for young filmmakers right now, and delivers one hell of a Roger Corman impersonation.
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On the DL.
After spending June on explicitly queer texts like Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (listen) and William Castle’s Homicidal (listen), it’s only appropriate that Horror Queers celebrate the American holiday with a blockbuster film with a not-so-secret gay connection.
In Independence Day, an unlikely group of people come together when the human race faces extinction from a threatening alien race. After spaceships destroy every major city, pilot Steven Hiller (Will Smith) must team up with secret tech genius David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), as well as the US President (Bill Pullman), to execute a daring plan to save the planet from annihilation.
Along for the ride are the two saviors’ romantic partners – WH Communications Director Constance (Margaret Colin) and stripper Jasmine (Vivica A. Fox) – plus eccentric scientist Dr. Okun (Brent Spiner), who is at the center of the film’s most horrific set piece.
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Episode 393: Independence Day (1996)
Today, we celebrate our Independence Day…courtesy of gay German director Roland Emmerich.
As the summer blockbuster celebrates its 30th anniversary, we’re looking back on an alien disaster film that scared young Trace (thanks to that alien autopsy scene) and turned Will Smith into a star.
Plus: the death that upsets the most; bemoaning Vivica A. Fox’s career; pondering what could have been with the casting; why Smith’s bravado and the film’s patriotism doesn’t always work for Joe; and plenty of riffing on the atrocious sequel.
Cross out Independence Day!
Coming Up Next: We’re retreating to the country for some questionable therapy courtesy of Joe Dante’s 1981 classic, The Howling!
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