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On Repressed Sexuality in ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
Repressed sexuality and rifts in the space-time continuum.
After kicking off August with our first foray into the world of beach party films with Robert Lee King’s camp classic Psycho Beach Party (listen), we’re shifting gears into the weird and wonderful world of Australian myths in Peter Weir‘s 1975 adaptation of Joan Lindsay‘s acclaimed novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Picnic at Hanging Rock sees a selection of students of the all-female Appleyard College attend a picnic at a local geological formation known as Hanging Rock. While there, three students and one teacher vanish without a trace, leaving the local community perplexed and anxious. As the search for the missing girls continues to no avail, the effects of the event on the school’s strict headmistress (Rachel Roberts) and the rest of the community come to a head.
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Episode 347: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Check your watch you little ignoramus because we’re talking Peter Weir‘s seminal Australian mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).
Join us as we dive into this mythic piece of “true” crime from the bush, with an unsolved mystery that still perplexes people to this very day. Add in some repressed lesbianism and some hauntingly ethereal vibes for good measure, of course.
Plus: pan flutes galore, gorgeous crimson cloaks, and why book author Joan Lindsay is a massive troll.
Cross out Picnic at Hanging Rock!
Coming Up Next: We’re so scared of wearing white after Labor Day that we just had to revisit John Waters’ cult classic Serial Mom (1994)!
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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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