Butch knows best… After concluding May with discussions of the disaster “slasher” The Poseidon Adventure (listen) and Michael Biehn’s demon twink in the messy-but-watchable The Fan (listen),...
Parasocial Peril. May has been a delightfully odd mix of titles, including Robin Williams’ One Hour Photo (listen), Aussie/UK thriller Like Minds (listen), and seminal disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure...
“M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my Linda!” After kicking off May with the Robin Williams-starring character study One Hour Photo (listen) and the forgotten Leopold and Loeb-style thriller Like Minds (listen), we’re heading overseas...
Homoerotic Boarding School. April has been a month of alien slugs (Slither – listen), Universal Monsters (The Mummy – listen), disaster “comedies” (The Happening – listen), and character studies...
Triptych of Terror. After spending April laughing at James Gunn’s horror comedy Slither (listen), revisiting Boris Karloff in The Mummy (listen), and debating M. Night Shyamalan’s...
Marriage is a sacred bond… After concluding March discussing of the classic folk horror film The Wicker Man (listen) and observing the Easter holiday in Critters 2:...
“It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man…” After celebrating March’s Friday the 13th with a look at Steve Miner’s Friday the 13th...
The Goat Pit. In March, we bracketed Spanish language hit Thesis (listen) and the 3D Friday the 13th – aka Part III (listen) with a celebration of two...
Boogie down with Jason’s new disco theme! After kicking off March with a look at Radio Silence’s Scream VI (listen) and Alejandro Amenábar’s debut feature Thesis (listen), we’re celebrating...
Good for her…? After kicking off February with a look at one of the lesser-loved Michael Crichton film adaptations in Sphere (listen) and being introduced to...
De Palma/Argento Baby. After closing January with the one-two punch of M. Night’s Split (listen) and (maybe?) meta slasher Popcorn (listen), we kicked off February with...
Jellyfish, jellyfish and more jellyfish (but no giant squid!). After wrapping up January with a revisit of M. Night Shyamalan’s career resuscitator Split (listen) and getting...
Mask Meta. The first month of 2026 has flown by thanks to titles like Alex Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina (listen), Danny Boyle’s Infected return 28 Weeks...
Et cetera… After kicking off the new year with a deep dive into Alex Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina (listen) and revisiting our Patreon discussion of 28...
Prosthetic Penises. After wrapping up 2025 with Christmas thriller P2 (listen), and bizarro 1981 slasher Night School (listen), Horror Queers is kicking off 2026 with an Alex Garland...
Garland’s Big Debut. After celebrating the holidays with gateway horror classic Jumanji (listen), underseen Christmas thriller P2 (listen), and bizarro 1981 slasher Night School (listen), Horror Queers is kicking...
Six years ago, following the lack of recognition at the Oscars for horror films, Trace Thurman and I created “The Hereditaries“ (named after Toni Collette’s Hereditary omission),...
The old “head-in-the-fish-tank” routine… After celebrating the holidays with a look at one of my favorite gateway horror films Jumanji (listen) and the underseen holiday thriller P2 (listen), we’re...
In the jungle you must wait…. After kicking off December with an oft-requested but underseen listener pick in the religious chiller The Sentinel (listen) and the found...
Ignore your girlfriend… The last few weeks have been dominated by older texts: from 1975’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (listen) to Misery on...
She went to a party with eight dead murderers… After wrapping up November with a look at one of the most controversial films ever made in Salò,...
The Best of King. We spent the month of November tackling a variety of monsters. From James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen) to Gena Rowlands in The Skeleton...
Nothing is more contagious than evil… After kicking off November with a look at James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen) and the Kate Hudson-starring The Skeleton Key (listen), we’re finally(?) tackling...
After spending the last few weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (listen), Jack Nicholson’s commanding performance in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen),...
