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‘Inside’ One of the New French Extremity’s Strongest (and Bloodiest) Entries [Horror Queers Podcast]
Gimme dat baby.
After wrapping up November with a look at cryptids in The Mothman Prophecies (listen), we kicked off December with a journey back into the land of giallo in Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (listen). Now we’re heading to France to discuss everyone’s favorite pregnancy-related splatterfest in Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo‘s Inside (2007).
Inside sees newly widowed (and very pregnant) Sarah (Alysson Paradis) spending Christmas Eve alone as she waits to be induced the next morning. Unfortunately for her, a mysterious, scissors-wielding woman known only as La Femme (Béatrice Dalle) has designs on her unborn child, and will stop at nothing until she gets it.
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Episode 260: Inside (2007)
Watch the road and finish your knitting project because we’re delving back into the world of New French Extremity with a festive look at Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s 2007 home invasion film Inside.
Join us as we laud lead actresses Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis for their visceral performances before putting the film’s narrative into the context of the 2005 French riots that serve as the background setting of the film.
Plus: a very emotive CGI fetus, the deadliest scissors you’ll ever see, and some very incompetent law enforcement officers.
Cross out Inside!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re feeling festive so it’s time to finally cover everyone’s favorite zombie holiday musical: 2017’s Anna and the Apocalypse!
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After winding down June with discussions of our vey first William Castle film Homicidal (listen) and queer director Roland Emmerich’s summer tentpole Independence Day (listen), we’re heading back to 1981 to check out Joe Dante‘s seminal werewolf film The Howling.
The Howling sees television journalist Karen White (Dee Wallace) attend a psychiatric retreat with her husband Bill (Christopher Stone) after being attacked and traumatized by local serial killer Eddie Quist (Robert Picardo). It isn’t long before Karen realizes that the retreat is actually a secret cult of werewolves, and they’ve already got their sights set on Bill.
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Episode 394: The Howling (1981)
Make note of that smiley face sticker and snag that conveniently-placed jar of acid because we’re talking Joe Dante’s stealth werewolf classic The Howling (1981)!
Join us as we discuss the film’s deviations from its source material before doing a deep dive into this very tongue-in-cheek, self-aware horror film. It honestly feels like a precursor to Scream, in many ways!
Plus: Roger Corman (again!) those incredible special effects, differentiating “color movies” from “movies in color,” and why queer icon Elisabeth Brooks has us going “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!”
Cross out The Howling!
Coming Up Next: We’re tackling our very first Ken Russell film with a look at his controversial 1984 erotic thriller Crimes of Passion!
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