Hidden Gems Episodes

Climb aboard Polyester Airlines for a flight back in time to January 14, 1975: the night SATAN'S TRIANGLE starring Doug McClure, Kim Novak and Alejandro Rae premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week. A Coast Guard rescue squad finds a lone woman stranded aboard a schooner with a slew of mysteriously dead corpses and find themselves trapped in a battle for their very souls against the Devil himself. You can expect: High Seas Hijinks! Murderous Marlins! Levitating Corpses! Vanishing S...

This is a Two-Part Episode! Part Two featuring an interview with RICHERT EASLEY from the cast of Outrageous! will air starting Saturday, December 13th! *************************************** It's Part Three of the FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES SPECTACULAR, and this time we are shining a spotlight on RICHARD BENNER, screenwriter of "And Now the News" and writer/director of the lost queer classic masterpiece OUTRAGEOUS! (1977). In this delightful, bittersweet tale of unlikely buddies and ch...

Watch ARNOLD for free on Youtube or buy the gorgeous new Blu-Ray from Vinegar Syndrome. Say goodbye to ScreamQueenz with ARNOLD, a delightfully bizarre but tragically forgotten horror comedy of 1973. In the first five minutes of ARNOLD, a gold-digging flight attendant marries a corpse...and that's the least weird thing that happens for the rest of the movie. It's the kind of movie that makes you ask, "Are the straights ok???" ARNOLD combines classic Gothic horror elements like a creepy ...

ScreamQueenz is still on hiatus for health reasons, so enjoy this peek behind the Patreon paywall at an episode of DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS: The FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES Retrospective Podcast. In this episode, we're discussing "Master of Disguise" from Season Two in which a cursed makeup kit wreaks deadly havoc on a movie set. Here's why this episode ROCKS: It's directed by Tom McLoughlin (Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives, One Dark Night) It has the ONLY gay character in the entire franchi...

If you enjoyed this episode, say THANK YOU and SUPPORT THE SHOW with a one-time donation at bit.ly/sqthankyou ScreamQueenz is still on hiatus, so please enjoy this Flashback to April 1, 2016 - Episode #147 on MUTE WITNESS with special guests CHRYSTEN PEDDIE and DAN COHEN from KILLING YOUR DARLINGS. While working on a low-budget horror film shooting in Moscow, a mute American special effects artist gets locked inside the dilapidated movie studio after hours. While trapped inside she stumbles acr...

If you enjoyed this episode, say THANK YOU and SUPPORT THE SHOW with a one-time donation at bit.ly/sqthankyou ***** You know how I love a movie full of rich obnoxious jerks who are all secretly trying to murder each other so they can inherit a mountain of money? THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOVIES! Except it's also SUPER GAY! THE ESTATE is the wickedly hilarious brainchild of writer/star CHRIS BAKER and his IRL partner, director JAMES KAPNER. It's the story of rich spoiled egotistical George and his...

As proof that ScreamQueenz has not podfaded, please accept the Flashback to one of the most popular and beloved of our classic episodes: that time TRAE DEAN and DOUG SHAPIRO dropped by to discuss the gayest Agatha Christie murder mystery of all, EVIL UNDER THE SUN. EVIL UNDER THE SUN is currently available for streaming on BRITBOX and for rental from all the usual sources. Note: This episode was recorded 13 years ago. I was a lot coarser and less sensitive than I am now. I apologize for my off...

Come along with me and my special guest, Pastor Ben Fitzgerald-Fye, as we venture into the eerie, mystical and very queer world of the 2016 Australian film, Boys in the Trees. This unique coming-of-age tale set on Halloween Night is far from your typical horror movie, blending genres to create a uniquely captivating, enchanting, and chilling atmosphere. As we journey into the deep dark woods with the characters of Boys in the Trees, we'll not only encounter ghosts, monsters and werewolves. We'l...

What happens when you combine the comedic genius of Don Knotts, a haunted house, and a cast of hilarious character actors? You get the 1966 comedy classic, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken! For this special birthday episode of ScreamQueenz, we're joined by the fabulous TRAE DEAN from "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" and STEPHEN WANGNER, founder of the Don Knotts Appreciation Society, to discuss the sheer brilliance of this movie and its enduring legacy. We'll dive into the wacky world of Don Knotts' comedy, e...

After years of being out of print, Maurice Devereaux's 2007 masterpiece END OF THE LINE has been given a glorious limited edition blu-ray release by terror-vision.com. To celebrate this glorious film's return, please enjoy this episode of ScreamQueenz from 2018 in which I discussed the film with Matty & Andrew from FRIGAY THE 13th. Get your copy of END OF THE LINE at https://www.terror-vision.com/store/end-of-the-line-blu-ray-with-slip Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly ...

Last episode, we took you to the brink of utter insanity with our discussion of SISSY. But now we're back. We're gonna finish what we started. With SPOILERS this time! My extra special guests for the #WomenInHorrorMonth selection are NICOLE DAVIS (Movie-Go-Round) and MAYA MURPHY (Rosewater, "Damn You, Uncle Lewis!"). SISSY is currently available on Shudder or wherever you rent movies. SISSY was directed by HANNAH BARLOW & KANE SENES, written by HANNAH BARLOW and stars AISHA DEE, HANNAH BAR...

Halloween may be over, but the horrific hijinx continue with the delightful vampire comedy I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME AT HOUSE HARKER (2016). The bumbling descendants of Jonothan and Mina Harker must raise $50,000 to save their ancestral home, and their elaborate scheme to cash in on their vampire-slaying history accidentally kicks off an actualvampire apocalypse. Oopsie. To add to the blood-soaked belly laughs, my special guests are MICHAEL HOWIE from Defender Radio and CHRISTOPHER GRONLUND from...

CW: suicide, child abuse, child endangerment, sexual violence, dark psychological themes. Love bites. Love bleeds. Love lives. Love dies. Love begs. Love pleads. Love is Grimm. The final stop on our "Dark Side Of Rainbow" tour leads us into the darkest, most dangerous reaches of the forest where the only monsters are us. GRIMM LOVE is a fictionalization of the infamous "German gay cannibal case" in which Armin Meiwes killed and ate his willing victim Bernd Brandes. Yet despite the grisly sens...

Prepare your funny bone for some otherworldly ticklin', because for Episode 332, I unearthed a hidden gem of a haunted house comedy. In THE SELLING, a too-nice-for-his-own-good real estate agent is tricked into buying a house that was once owned by a long-dead serial killer. If that wasn't bad enough, the house is also EXTREMELY haunted. Can Richard defeat the ghosts, sell the house and save the day? (And is anybody gonna eat those leftover brownies???) To counteract the spectral scares, I'm ...

Our PRIDE MONTH celebration continues with a look at the truly unusual, blood-streaked 1981 psychological thriller BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER aka NIGHT WARNING. Billy, an orphaned teenager, finds himself being dominated by his increasingly unhinged Aunt Sheryl who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs. Despite its deceptively simple plot, BBNM is a remarkably layered film featuring a bravura performance from SUSAN TYRELL and enough twisted Greek Tragedy elements to make Oedipu...

"Everything's a movie to me..." Kick off your Pride Month festivities with this deep dive into the movie that was meta before meta was cool, the moviehouse movie-within-a-movie massacre motion picture POPCORN from 1991. Tucked inside all the Grand Guignol fun, we'll be putting a special focus on the closeted life and tragic death of the film's star, TOM VILLARD. Joining me are world-famous actor and host of the HOT DATE podcast DAN DOMINGUES and future PsychoBiddy PETER ADAMSON. A group of fi...

"He's family..." Our salute to CANADIAN HORROR movies continues with a chat about the deeply unsettling (and tragically out-of-print at this time) psychosexual thriller, PIN from 1988. A young man develops an unhealthy attachment to Pin, his father's medical anatomy doll and reigns terror upon anyone who threatens his fractured reality. To help me navigate this dark and twisted path, I am delighted to have MAYA MURPHY ("Damn You, Uncle Lewis!") and real-life Canadian JOE LIPSETT (Horror Queers ...

If you've ever wondered what would happen when I covered a movie that truly terrified me...you're about to find out. Because LAST GIRL STANDING is a movie that shakes me to my core. Twice before I've tried to talk about this film on the show. Twice before I've had to scrap the entire project because just scratching the surface turns me into a blubbering, frightened mess. Turns out what I needed was the calming soothing presence of my special guests CHRIS MOORE and KEVIN JONES (Hosts of the u...

October is JOHN CARPENTER MONTH here on ScreamQueenz, and we begin with a look at one of his lesser-known films: the taut made-for-television psychological thriller SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! starring LAUREN HUTTON, ADRIENNE BARBEAU and DAVID BIRNEY. Leigh Michaels is a TV director who moves into a high rise apartment building in Los Angeles when she begins to receive mysterious phone calls from a psychopathic Peeping-Tom intent on invading every aspect of her life. My special guests are VANESSA MC...

In celebration of the 11th Season of SCREAMQUEENZ: The Podcast where Horror Gets Gay, everything old is new again... I'm resurrecting THE CRAPSHOOT; the segment of the show where I dive headfirst into that vast sea of Direct-To-Video horror movie releases in search of that elusive Diamond in the ****Pile! And to add to the craziness, I'm making it a DOUBLE CRAPSHOOT! First up is 1BR (2020) written & directed by DAVID MARMOUR: Sarah (NICOLE BRYDON BROOM) is a young woman who moves to Los Ange...

(05:00) (07:30) <p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>MADISON PENROSE ALWAYS GETS WHAT SHE WANTS.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>TONIGHT, SHE'LL GET WHAT SHE DESERVES.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center">Beat the summer heat with this ScreamQueenz bonus never-before-aired episode recorded back in May, 2020 when <a href="https://www.wickedqueer.org/events/death-drop-gorgeous" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>BRANDON PERRAS-SANCHEZ</strong></a> ...

– My 50th Birthday Celebration continues as THE CRAPSHOOT returns! My never-ending quest to find a diamond in the shit pile of VOD horror movie releases led me to a little film called SHOCK VALUE, a blackly comic yet chilling gem of a tale about dangerous ambition and deadly hubris set against the backdrop of L.A’s indie horror filmmaking scene. After witnessing a brutal double murder, a film director (ZAK HUDSON) develops a dastardly brilliant plan to ensure his next movie is a guaranteed hit...

Help support homeless LGBT youth at bit.ly/sqpodna or bit.ly/sqpodfb If it's FRIDAY THE 13th, then make it SPECTACULARRR! It's corpse a-poppin' pandemonium over at the mausoleum when a high school prank goes real funky real fast in ONE DARK NIGHT (Directed by TOM MCLOUGHLIN (Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives) starring MEG TILLY (Psycho 2, Bomb Girls), ADAM WEST (Batman, Family Guy) and ELIZABETH DAILY (Valley Girl, 31). But before you crash this party, best be sure your camel toe is on fleek...

Robert R Best on Amazon Jeff Baldree SKEWERED UNIVERSE SHOW NOTES TBA EVERY DAY IS H A L L O W E E N: A Fundraiser for New Alternatives For Homeless LGBT Youth Donate directly at bit.ly/sqpodna or through Facebook at bit.ly/sqpodfb This episode was NOT recorded with SQUADCAST: Remote Interviews for Professional Podcasters. Find out more at bit.ly/squadqueenz Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly new survivor horror novel BLISS by Brandon Halsey on Amazon! "It's like 28 DA...