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...
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...
Bounty Hunter Boobies. In March, in addition to celebrating one of 2026’s three Friday the 13s with Steve Miner’s Friday the 13th Part III (listen) and...
It’s a little ridiculous to say that Alice Maio Mackay has matured at the ripe old age of 21, but the prolific Aussie filmmaker’s latest, The...
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...
Ghostface in NY. After kicking off February with the flawed Michael Crichton adaptation Sphere (listen), batshit 90s Drew Barrymore flick Doppelganger (listen), and the 10th anniversary...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
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),...
Scary Sad. Horror Queers Podcast has spent October celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), 50 years of Cronenberg’s feature debut Shivers (listen) and the ingenuity...
Taxpayer Funded Sex Slugs. After wrapping up September with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (listen), debating the merits of The Strangers: Chapter 1 (listen) and celebrating 30...
1/3 of a Movie. After celebrating our 350th episode with From Dusk Till Dawn (listen), revisiting Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic anime Akira (listen), and stopping over in Bodega...
After revisiting Troma’s The Toxic Avenger (listen) and Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic anime Akira (listen) – with a brief stopover to celebrate our 350th episode and From...
There’s a mystery at the heart of Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At The Place of Ghosts), a Canadian Indigenous thriller about a pair of Mi’kmaw brothers who have been...
The Original Grindhouse. After delivering a warning about white after Labor Day with John Waters’ Serial Mom (listen) and revisiting the original Troma trashterpiece, The Toxic Avenger (listen),...
A Killer Satire. In August we’ve already been to the beach with Robert Lee King’s camp classic Psycho Beach Party (listen) and to Australia with Peter Weir’s...
The cover of Hailey Piper’s A Game in Yellow features a woman in profile from the chest up, bent over…and melting. It’s an apt visual for...
Homage to Gidget. After spending July discussing slasher film The Slumber Party Massacre (listen), supernatural giallo film Phenomena (listen), and entry #2 in Park Chan-wook revenge...
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