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Internalized Homophobia and Tentacle Alien Monsters in ‘The Untamed’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Tentacle Porn (no, really).
After traveling all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In, we changed up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick in Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Now we’re making our first journey to Mexico as we discuss the tentacle alien monster at the center (end?) of Amat Escalante‘s The Untamed (2016).
In the film, Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) and Ángel (Jesús Meza) are in a troubled marriage. The closeted Ángel is secretly having an affair with Alejandra’s brother Fabián (Eden Villavicencio). When Alejandra finds out, she seeks solace in her new friend Verónica (Simone Bucio), who tells her of a strange meteorite containing a mysterious creature that acts as a source of both pleasure and destruction.
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Episode 175: The Untamed (2016)
Strap in because we’re discussing our first Mexican film and boy is it a doozy! We’re going to be discussing all the internalized homophobia and tentacle alien monster sexcapades in Amat Escalante’s 2016 film The Untamed!
Join us as we try to figure out what the tentacle alien monster represents while, laud the film for its realistic (and graphic!) depiction of gay sex and then jump right into adding a new letter to the LGBTQIA acronym (someone alert GLAAD!).
Plus: meat-eating as a sign of masculinity, the importance of breaking tradition, questionable police interrogation rooms and a crater of copulating creatures.
Cross out The Untamed!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re tackling our newest release ever on the main feed in Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (which is currently available to rent on VOD)!
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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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