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The “Horrality” of ‘Housebound’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
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After kicking off 2022 with a double-dose of Scream 4, Joe and I started our “Underrated or Underseen?” theme for the first quarter of the year with a look at 2012’s American Mary and 2013’s The Lords of Salem. Now we’re tackling 2014 with a hearty discussion of Gerard Johnstone‘s hilarious comedy horror film Housebound!
In the film, would-be thief Kylie (Morgana O’Reilly) is remanded to the custody of her estranged mother (Rima Te Wiata), who turns out to be correct in her assertion that evil spirits are afoot in their family domicile. Without anywhere to go, Kylie reluctantly teams up with security contractor Amos (Glen-Paul Waru) to appease the spirits before it’s too late
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Episode 162 – Housebound (2014)
Check your ankle monitor, grab your cheese grater and prepare for lockdown because we’re heading to New Zealand to discuss Gerard Johnstone’s hilarious comedy horror film Housebound (2014)!
Join us as we discuss Johnstone’s background in television before looking at the film through Philip Brophy’s not-so-household term “horrality.” Then we pretty much just spend the rest of the episode laughing at the endless barrage of hilarious scenes that Housebound throws our way!
Plus: Famous Amos, a lesson on how to navigate Rotten Tomatoes, Trace learns about commonwealths (and Coronation Street!) and Joe’s real-life New Zealand horror story involving….an apple?
Cross out Housebound!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re continuing our “Underrated or Underseen?” theme with a look at Oz Perkins’ dread-filled, boarding school-set horror film The Blackcoat’s Daughter!
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Aaliyah Innocent.
May was a busy subgenre-switching month. After kicking things off with disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen), we watched American Giallo The Fan (listen), then wrapped things up with Vincent Price’s horror comedy Theater of Blood (listen).
Now, in honor of Pride Month and the return of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (renamed The Vampire Lestat for S03), Trace and I had to check out the straight-washed second attempt to bring Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to life.
Back in 2002, director Michael Rymer pitched Hollywood on his vision for Rice’s second Chronicle book, The Vampire Lestat. Instead, the suits opted to adapt the third book, Queen of the Damned (likely due to the ancillary opportunities of the soundtrack, written entirely by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis).
In the film, Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens from slumber to reinvent himself as a leather-pant-wearing rocker. Lestat’s very public vampire persona attracts the attention of Talamasca novice Jesse (Marguerite Moreau), as well as the vampire’s maker Marius (Vincent Perez). But the nu-metal has the greatest impact on Akasha (Aaliyah), who awakens and promises to take over the world if her old foe Maharet (Lena Olin) doesn’t stop her.
Whose side will Lestat join? Will Marius help his fledgling or abandon him to public sacrifice? And does anyone actually care about Jesse? (Please note: that last question is rhetorical.)
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Episode 389: Queen of the Damned (2002)
Practice your Egyptian accent and bare that midriff because we are talking the troubled “adaptation” of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned (2002).
Directed by Australian Michael Rymer, this one was doomed by the suits before it was even greenlit (which happened AFTER all of the songs were written by Korn frontman Jonathan Davis). It’s a bit of a clusterfuck.
Plus: praising everything Aaliyah (RIP); critiquing everything Stuart Townsend (aside from his abs and leather pants); a soft queer reading of Marius; and bemoaning boring protagonist/audience surrogate JESSE.
Cross out Queen of the Damned!
Coming Up Next: We’re tackling Ben Stiller’s horror-adjacent dark comedy The Cable Guy (1996), in anticipation of its 30th anniversary!
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