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The Lurid 3D Sexual Hijinks of Paul Morrissey’s ‘Flesh For Frankenstein’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
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It’s been a wild ride on the podcast this month as Trace and I make our way through a number of camp classics. After kicking off the series with beauty pageant mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, we dived into Paz de la Huerta’s trashterpiece Nurse 3D, and covered our first ever John Waters film with Female Trouble.
Now we’re back to 3D with Paul Morrissey‘s 1974 film Flesh for Frankenstein, which takes the Frankenstein story and spins it on its head with a depraved X-rated class critique!
In the film, wealthy Baron Frankenstein (Udo Kier) is unhappily married to his sister, Baroness Katrin (Monique van Vooren) and spending all of his time in the lab with assistant Otto (Arno Jürging). He’s creating a master race (aka eugenics) but following repeated scientific failures, he seeks out a “perfect specimen” at the brothel. This involves the murder of quiet Sasha (Srdjan Zelenovic) rather than hunky lothario Nicholas (Joe Dallesandro), which instigates a series of calamitous events.
Will the Baron’s “zombies” finally mate? Will Nicholas live happily ever after as Katrin’s sexual manservant? And just what the hell is up with those voyeuristic, pervert kids? Flesh for Frankenstein is wild, y’all!
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Episode 187 – Flesh for Frankenstein (1974) feat. Reyna Cervantes
Week 4 of the Summer of Camp finds us fucking life in the gallbladder with Flesh for Frankenstein (1974). Along for the ride is returning guest Reyna Cervantes, who loves Paul Morrissey’s X-Rated satire, which could never be made today!
After Trace provides a quick crash course on Andy Warhol and The Factory, we dive into the 3D, the Mafia (!) and the incest/necrophilia of it all (C/W by the way).
Plus: hot Udo Kier, the destruction of the nuclear family, asexuality vs gay vibes, debates about male full frontal nudity, and James Cameron?
Cross out Flesh for Frankenstein!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re wrapping up our Camp series with a long-awaited trip to actual camp: 1983’s Sleepaway Camp!
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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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