Horror Queers

Horror Queers

Each week, queer hosts Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman discuss a horror film with LGBTQ+ themes, a high camp quotient or both.

Episodes

October 3, 2023 6 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon minisode on Bishal Dutta's new South Asian horror film, It Lives Inside (2023). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon audio commentary on Saw 2 (2005) in anticipation of its new prequel, Saw X. Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 27, 2023 125 mins
We're wrapping up Erotic Thriller month with the gayest text of all: French writer/director Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake (2013). This is one of Joe's favorite queer horror texts because it covers so many topics: cruising, sex and death, voyeurism, body image, gay microcosms, STIs, toxic relationship, homophobia, and gay friendships. And that's before we tackle the unsimulated sex, discuss using condoms for blowjobs, debat...
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September 26, 2023 6 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon bonus episode on Kenneth Branagh's third outing as Hercult Poirot in A Haunting in Venice (2023). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 22, 2023 19 mins
Put on a coat and get home before midnight because we're discussing Jacqueline Castel's lesbian werewolf romance My Animal (2023). Join us as we sing the praises of Castel's eye for aesthetics and Bobbi Salvör Menuez's lead performance, while lamenting the film's extended runtime and muted payoff. Still, there's enough here to earn a (slight) recommendation, as it features another solid performance from Bodies Bodies Bodies' Amandl...
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September 20, 2023 133 mins
Get ready for a world of wet because we're continuing our month of erotic thrillers with a look at the Wachowski sisters' 1996 ovinal queer classic Bound! Tagging in for the conversation is the founder of Salem Horror Fest: Kay Lynch! Join us as we kick things off with a brief discussion on the differences between noir and neo-noir before going all in on the casting drama that nearly cost us Jennifer Tilly! Then it's all (and we me...
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September 19, 2023 8 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new audio commentary on Kate Beckinsale's franchise-spawning Vampires vs Lycans action horror series, Underworld (2003). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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September 18, 2023 25 mins
Grab your camera and retreat to a cabin in the woods because we're discussing the feature version of Alexander McGregor Birrell's The Latent Image (2022). This is quite similar to the short of the same name, with a few tweaks and a boyfriend for lead Ben (Joshua Tonks, guest on our BtVS episode "Once More, With Feeling). But while we're big fans of most of the technical elements (direction, acting, lighting, and set design), Trace ...
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September 13, 2023 128 mins
Raid the closet for tear-away suits and make a "real" martini because we're talking about Paul Feig's suburban noir, A Simple Favor (2018). Joining us is Dread Central writer and We Really Like Her co-host Emily Gagne, who needed a second screening of the film to warm to its bisexual charms. Up for discussion: "pretty" girls Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, shockingly casual incest, Henry Golding's career as a side piece, why this f...
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September 12, 2023 6 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon bonus episode on The Nun II, Michael Chaves' latest entry in The Conjuring Universe. Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Grab your blonde wig, sunglasses and straight razor because we're kicking off a month of erotic thrillers with the grandaddy of them all: Brian De Palma's 1980 masterpiece Dressed to Kill! Joining us for the conversation is Austin-based queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell! Join us as we trace the film's journey from the mind of De Palma to a protested and picketed controversy among feminists and members of the queer community. ...
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September 5, 2023 5 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon bonus episode on Michael Mohan's attempt to revive the Erotic Thriller, The Voyeurs (2021). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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August 30, 2023 127 mins
Get ready to play the piano all sexy like because we're discussing Park Chan-wook's English-language debut Stoker, which is based on a screenplay from queer screenwriter (and actor) Wentworth Miller(?!?!). Join us as we discuss the film's journey from a Black List pick to a botched marketing campaign to an even more botched release. This is a shame, because Stoker is a film that oozes so much style that it elevates its baby Dexter ...
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Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon minisode discussion on various tropes that we are sick and tired of seeing in horror films (and some non-horror films!). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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August 23, 2023 100 mins
Return to camp with Michael A. Simpson's Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988) which finds Angela killing according to Aunt Martha's conservative moral code. We're talking about Pamela Springsteen's performance (and Felissa Rose's absence), our love of Ally, and the film's status as a self-referential horror comedy. Plus: the lack of short shorts, poor editing, Molly's end, and debates if the laughs subvert the "trans killer" tr...
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Here's a sneak peek at our all new full-length Patreon bonus episode on André Øvredal's "Dracula on a boat" film, The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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August 16, 2023 116 mins
Log into your Sugar Baby app and get ready for comments about your appearance because we are discussing Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby (2020). Joining us is returning guest Lindsay Traves, who unpacks all of the Jewish elements from Shiva coffee to accusations of "Jew Face." Plus: Dianna Agron's "shiksa goddess" and Jewish beauty ideals, tackling the depiction of sex work and bisexuality, Jewish character actors, and Sugaring apps. Ref...
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August 15, 2023 7 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Ben Wheatley's shark-y sequel Meg 2: The Trench (2023). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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August 9, 2023 107 mins
Pray you don't get lost in the fog because we're heading to Jersey Island to discuss spooky ghost things in Alejandro Amenábar's 2001 film The Others! Joining us for the conversation is Nichole Goble, the host of the Bodies of Horror podcast! Join us as we trace the origins of the film through Tom Cruise(???) and Dimension Films(??????) before going all in on the atmospheric charms of this Gothic horror gem. From Nicole Kidman's po...
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August 8, 2023 6 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon minisode on A24's buzzy horror film Talk To Me (2023). Like what you hear? Head on over to www.patreon.com/horrorqueers and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content today! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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