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Disasterpiece ‘Nurse 3D’ Is the Definition of Modern Camp [Horror Queers Podcast]
The Answer is NURSE.
Last week Trace and I kicked off our Summer of Camp marathon with the satirical romp Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), a film so hilariously offensive that it could never be made today. This week, our second film begs the question: what were they thinking when they made this?!
Doug Aarniokoski‘s Nurse 3D is a whole lotta film packed into one; its mix of tones, performances and scattered plot is a huge part of its camp appeal. This is a disasterpiece of epic proportions, anchored by an absolutely iconic – and unhinged – performance by star Paz de la Huerta.
In the film, Abby (de la Huerta) is an oversexed nurse by day, but at night she transforms into an avenging angel who targets cheating men. Abby’s one weakness is her affection <cough sexual obsession cough> for her new mentee, Danni (Katrina Bowden). Abby disapproves of all of the men in Danni’s life, including her boyfriend, Steve (Corbin Bleu), as well as her lying, cheating stepfather Dr. Larry (Martin Donovan). Throw in Rachel Adams (Melanie Scrofano), the nosy new head of HR with a tie to Abby’s veiled past, and a hot Detective (Boris Kodjoe) working the string of murders, and Abby’s got plenty of bodies to keep her scalpel working overtime.
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Episode 185 – Nurse 3D (2013)
Grab your vecuronium and prepare to get bottomless because week two of the Summer of Camp is tackling Doug Aarniokoski’s Nurse 3D (2013).
This is just…what is this? It’s Paz de la Huerta acting in a completely different film than the stacked cast around her. It’s lawsuits and delays. It’s fetish costuming, shitty 3D post-conversion and the wildest voice-over you’ve ever heard.
Trace offers a recap lesson while Joe questions the poorly incorporated rape plot (C/W) while drawing a surprising number of comparisons to our Showgirls episode.
But is it camp? We’re still not sure what this film is; all we know is that we love our fucking jobs.
Cross out Nurse 3D!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re taking our Camp series back to the 70s for a look at our very first John Waters film, Female Trouble (1974)!
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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.
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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).
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