Podcasts
The Positive Queer Representation in John Carpenter’s ‘Someone’s Watching Me!’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
City of Stalkers.
After five weeks of discussing hilarious camp with Drop Dead Gorgeous, Nurse 3D, Female Trouble, Flesh for Frankenstein, and Sleepaway Camp, it’s time to go back to some more serious horror with a look at John Carpenter’s 1978 TV movie Someone’s Watching Me!.
In the film, Leigh Michaels (Lauren Hutton) takes a room in a high-rise apartment building where the previous tenant died by suicide. Soon after, Leigh begins receiving mysterious phone calls, getting anonymous gifts in the mail and finding that her room has been searched by someone. When a letter finally arrives in which her tormentor expresses his intention to kill her, she takes it to the police, but they’re unable to do anything. Terrified, Leigh teams up with her co-worker Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau) in an effort to find the culprit herself.
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Episode 189: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
Brush up on your stalking laws because we’re heading to the City of Angels to discuss our very first TV movie in John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978), which aired on NBC just one month after the release of Halloween!
Join us as we do a crash course on the status of television movies in the ’70s before analyzing Carpenter’s subversion of the Final Girl trope and then rightfully praising the groundbreaking positive queer representation in Adrienne Barbeau’s Sophie (before lamenting her inclusion in the “bury your gays” trope).
Plus, plenty of Scooby-Doo connections, all kinds of gazes, the “right” way to come home from work and the ultimate question: Is Forth Worth, TX some sort of lesbian haven?
Cross out Someone’s Watching Me!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re diving back into the twisted mind of Clive Barker with a fresh look at his second directorial effort: Nightbreed (1990)!
P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for more than 195 hours of additional content! This month, we’re discussing Netflix’s Resident Evil series, Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator film Prey, Peacock’s queer slasher They/Them and A24’s queer murder mystery Bodies Bodies Bodies. Oh, and we’ve got an audio commentary on Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon just in time for its 25th anniversary!
Podcasts
John Carpenter’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ Is Flawed But Undeniably Original [Halloweenies Podcast]
John Carpenter is back with a new album next week: Lost Themes IV: Noir.
To celebrate, the Halloweenies are unlocking their past episode from January 2022 on the maestro’s 1987 relic, Prince of Darkness. Join Michael Roffman, Dan Caffrey, McKenzie Gerber, and Rachel Reeves in the basement of a Los Angeles monastery as they decipher their feelings on the curious case study of the crossroads between science and faith.
Together, they debate whether or not this intriguing intersection overpowers the narrative and characters, chart where this fits in Carpenter’s overall oeuvre, and meditate on a few what-ifs in the casting department. They also marvel at the pulsing score, discuss its parallels to Inferno, and try to make sense of the mythos at the center.
So, go to the mirror and listen below. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, and Chucky. This year? Alien.
You can also become a member of their Patreon, The Rewind, for hilariously irreverent commentaries (e.g. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gremlins), one-off deep dives on your favorite rentals (e.g. Saw, The Changeling), and even topical spinoffs like this past summer’s greatest adventure Fortune & Glory: An Indiana Jones Podcast.
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