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Getting Up Close and Personal With ‘Closet Monster’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
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After finishing off March with a journey back into the world of erotic thrillers with John McNaughton’s 1998 classic Wild Things and marveling over the low budget delights of Toby Wilkins’ 2008 creature feature Splinter, we’re kicking off April with an explicitly queer film in Stephen Dunn‘s Closet Monster.
Closet Monster sees an artistic teenager named Oscar (Connor Jessup, Locke & Key) who is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood, but in order to do so must confront the monster lying within him.
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Episode 223: Closet Monster (2015)
Pull that metal rod out of your gut and embrace your queer rage because we’re discussing Stephen Dunn’s phenomenal(ly queer) 2015 film Closet Monster. Joining us for the discussion is Joe’s good friend Jonathan Hough!
Listen as we sing all the praises for Connor Jessup, who commands the screen in all of his scenes. We also discuss the film’s handling of internalized homophobia via body horror and argue about which of Oscar’s parents is worse,
Plus: Buffy the hamster, how to pronounce Xavier Dolan’s name, gay tests, lots of personal testimonies and some ticker ideas for Fox News should they decide to listen to this episode.
Cross out Closet Monster!
Coming up on Wednesday: Things are getting weird and surreal as we discuss Yorgos Lanthimos’ hilariously horrifying 2017 film The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
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After kicking off July with discussions of Joe Dante’s seminal werewolf film The Howling (listen) and Ken Russell’s controversial erotic thriller Crimes of Passion (listen), we’re heading to Maine to dissect one of Stephen King‘s most misguided adaptations in Lawrence Kasdan‘s 2003 misfire Dreamcatcher!
Dreamcatcher sees friends Henry (Thomas Jane), Jonesy (Damian Lewis), Pete (Timothy Olyphant) and Beaver (Jason Lee) reunite for their annual hunting trip in Maine. Their reunion is cut short when they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between a hostile race of farty-farty aliens and an elite US military unit led by Colonel Abraham Curtis (Morgan Freeman), who has been driven mad after spending decades tracking the extraterrestrials. When Jonesy is possessed by one of the aliens, the remaining friends seek out their disabled childhood friend Duddits (Donnie Wahlberg), who they believe has powers that can save Jonesy…and the world.
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Episode 396: Dreamcatcher (2003)
Watch out for “ister gay” (oof), take some Gas-X and bite our bags because we’re talking Lawrence Kasdan’s baffling 2003 adaptation of Stephen King’s equally baffling novel Dreamcatcher.
Join us as we go all in on the farty-farty aliens populating this hilarious misfire that often feels like a bad Kevin Smith script. It’s a film filled with characters who get a single defining trait (if they’re lucky), played by respectable actors who are here for the paycheck (looking at you, Morgan Freeman).
Plus: blown-out assholes, using guns as telephones, pitying poor Donnie Wahlberg, and wondering why the hell this movie is called Dreamcatcher.
Cross out Dreamcatcher!
Coming Up Next: We’re going to be lounging around a posh Greenwich Village apartment as we check in on Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).
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