Classics 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 episode originally aired on November 25th, 2011. It's Thanksgiving, so spend time at home with your family. Except maybe not this family. And definitely not this home! I am joined by my dear friend DAVID ROBEANO to discuss the 1976 supernatural shocker BURNT OFFERINGS, so bring extra lemon oil, stock up on Ding Dongs and for god's sake STAY OUT OF THE POOL! BURNT OFFERINGS was directed by DAN CURTIS and stars OLIVER REED, KAREN BLACK, BETTE DAVIS, LEE MONTGOMERY, BURGESS MEREDIT...

"DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES JANUARY 13, 2026 Watch FUNERAL HOME on Shudder or Tubi to avoid spoilers. We're counting down the days until Launch Day with another FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES SPECTACULAR episode! This time we're celebrating the work of director WILLIAM FRUET with ten Friday the 13th episodes to his credit including "The Inheritance", "Vanity's Mirror", and "Face of Fear." But tonight we're focusing on his 1980 drive-in classic FUNERAL HOME (aka CRIES IN THE NIGHT...

"Angela" -Episode Art by MZK Art and Design . Follow them on Instagram @matthewzkesslerart And buy some fabulous gay soap from Baron Von Soap Our two-part NIGHT OF THE DEMONS SPECTACULAHHRR continues with the in-depth conversation with superfan MATT KNIFE. We'll delve into our personal histories with the movie as well as why it resonates so well with us as gay men. NIGHT OF THE DEMONS is currently available to stream on Shudder, Peacock and Tubi. Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book...

It's campy. It's raunchy. It's gory. It's the beloved 1988 cult classic crowd pleaser, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS! In fact, I love this movie so much, I'm throwing a two-part SPECTACULAHHHR. Ten rambunctious teens throw a Halloween party in a spooky abandoned funeral parlor and end up raising hell.` In part of the SPECTACULAHHHR, I'm joined by everyone's favorite heterosexual podfaders and Night of the Demons virgins, ALLISON NOWACKI and BRYAN J. POLK. NIGHT OF THE DEMONS is available on SHUDDER,...

This bonus episode of ScreamQueenz contains a newly public episode of IT CAME FROM THE '70s! originally broadcast on November 3, 2023. Climb aboard Polyester Airlines for a charter flight back in time to the year 1981 to discuss the truly chilling tale of supernatural retribution, DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW. In the quiet town of Bogan, four vigilantes hunt down and execute a local mentally-challenged man for a crime he did not commit. But just when they think they've gotten away with it, the w...

"You can fool everybody, but landy deary me, you can't fool a cat!" Irena, a lonely young Serbian immigrant, believes she is descended from a tribe of shape-shifting witches and fears that any physical intimacy will change her into a killer jungle cat. Irena can run. Irena can hide. But she cannot deny the Beast Inside. CAT PEOPLE somehow managed to tell a clearly queer-coded tale of forbidden desires and unspeakable passions at the height of Hayes Code Production censorship, and we are thrilled...

It's the Halloween season, and I'm feeling generous, so please enjoy this episode of IT CAME FROM THE '70s, one of Patreon Exclusive podcasts. Become a Patron at patreon.com/screamqueenz. Come take a trip back in time on Polyester Airlines to October 31, 1978, when CBS premiered a "Halloween Howler" otherwise known as DEVIL DOG: HOUND OF HELL. The Barry family is in for a world of trouble when their new puppy, Lucky, is actually a soul-sucking Barghest demon out to possess them all. Your co-pil...

This episode of ScreamQueenz was originally published on June 20, 2024 on Patreon as an episode of "It Came From the '70s!". For more Patreon-exclusive episodes of "It Came From the '70s' and "Damn You, Uncle Lewis: The Friday the 13th: The Series Retrospective", become a Patron at patreon.com/screamqueenz. Climb aboard Polyester Airlines for a trip full of telephonic terror as we travel back in time to February 5, 1972: the night WHEN MICHAEL CALLS starring ELIZABETH ASHLEY, BEN GAZARRA and MIC...

For this ScreamQueenz Summer Bonus Episode, this Patreon-exclusive episode of IT CAME FROM THE 70's has been made public for your enjoyment. Welcome aboard Polyester Time Traveling Airlines non-stop flight to October 10, 1973; the night DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK premiered as the ABC Movie of the Week. This is one of the Big Ones! A Classic! If people remember ONE 1970's made-for-tv horror movie, it's usually this one! An entire generation of TV-watching children was scarred for LIFE by thi...

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...

Think spending the holidays with your family is stressful? Meet the Morgan family. Their family get-togethers are killer. All aboard Polyester Airlines flight to the night of November 27, 1972: the night the Christmas proto-slasher HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS premiered on ABC. You can expect: -A truly knockout cast of heavy-hitting women. -Pulpy dialogue. -Fraught melodrama. -Perfectly timed thunderclaps. -Pitchfork murders -Worst. Christmas. EVER! Your copilot on this very wet journey into Ch...

Get ready for a far-out flight to the grooviest decade ever when IT CAME FROM THE 70's takes over ScreamQueenz Studios to talk about everyone's favorite shameless CARRIE ripoff: the 1978 made-for-tv exercise in coded lesbianism and petty revenge known as THE INITIATION OF SARAH. There's something about this movie. It's a not-particularly scary carbon copy of the "Awkard Girl With Secret Powers Get Revenge" trope. By all rights, it should have been forgotten a long time ago. But it wasn't. A...

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...

Travel back in time with me to 1892 to discuss DEL TENNEY's fiendishly catty proto-slasher CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE. Following the death of their abusive sadistic father, a gaggle of his horrid offspring descend upon the creepy old family mansion to collect their inheritance only to be murdered one by one in the most deliciously gruesome ways. Clearly, they never learned ScreamQueenz Rule #513: "When you bury an evil tyrant, MAKE SURE HE'S REALLY DEAD!" In order to plunge the depths of CURS...

In the FRIDAY THE 13TH Spectacular episode, my guests and I told our Friday the 13th stories. At the FRIDAY THE 13TH Afterparty, you get to tell yours! Get ready for an hour of Camp Crystal Lake tales told by fellow Screamerz: tales that are touching, funny, embarrassing and might just bring a tear to your eye. For more information about the FRIDAY THE 13TH Film Location Tours, visit www.CrystalLakeTours.com Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE. Get acces...

Thirteen years ago, I began the tradition of the FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR where I set out to discuss the FRIDAY THE 13th series in a way I hadn't heard before. Now, I'm thirteen years older. I'm thirteen years wiser. It's time to go back to where it all started. I'm going back to Camp Crystal Lake. But this time...I'm not going alone. I've enlisted the help of two fabulous out, gay horror filmmakers, BART MASTRONARDI ("Vindication", "Tales of Poe") and MICHAEL VARRATI ("Tales of Poe", "...

With Thanksgiving almost upon us, it seems a good time to remind you that the old saying is true: "There's no place like home for the holidays." UNLESS perhaps your "home' has become somehow supernaturally sentient, fallen dangerously in love with you, and will kill anyone who tries to take you away from it. Don't go there. It sounds dangerous. Plus, I'm already taking you to a house JUST LIKE THAT right now! By the way, don't you let me (or it) hear you calling it haunted. This house ain'...

Step right up, step right up! Climb aboard for the ride of your life...or possibly the end of your life. This Halloween, I'm inviting you to spend the night with me in TOBE HOOPER's 1981 creepy carnival monster mashup, THE FUNHOUSE. When an evening at the carnival proves neither thrilling nor chilling enough, Amy and her friends get the bright idea to have an impromptu overnight smooch-n-grope party in the creepy funhouse. After accidentally witnessing a murder, the gang finds themselves being...

"This entire murder has been...catered!" You are cordially invited to spend the weekend with the world's greatest detectives in a spooky old mansion! Enjoy an invisible dinner, a fiendish murder, and the chance to win a million dollars if you can solve this devious crime! Get ready to laugh your *** off, because our topic this time is NEIL SIMON's classic murder mystery spoof MURDER BY DEATH from 1976 featuring one of the brilliant comedy ensemble casts ever put on film. My partner in crime i...

"It can't be happening again..." It's CANADIAN HORROR MONTH at ScreamQueenz, and we're starting the festivities by taking a look at their truly iconic slasher classic MY BLOODY VALENTINE from 1981. Special Guests: BRYAN NORTON: Director - "Jack Attack", Author - "FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET OUT!": The Amityville Horror at the Movies TARA GARNER: Actual Canadian, Resident Historian MY BLOODY VALENTINE directed by GEORGE MILHALKA. Starring PAUL KELMAN, LORI HALLIER, NEIL AFFLECK, KEITH KNIGHT, CYNTHIA ...

In ABBOTT & COSTELLO's charmingly SPOOKTACULAR comedy THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES, two ghosts (LOU COSTELLO & MARJORIE REYNOLDS) falsely accused of being traitors during the Revolutionary War must find a lost letter from George Washington that will prove their innocence and break their curse...all while scaring the pants of their manor home's current residents! Despite sharing almost no scenes together, this is one of the comic duo's best comedies and one of my all-time favorite comfort films. To s...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, MY BEAUTIFUL SCREAMERZ! John Carpenter Month continues with a look at his 1980 supernatural revenge flick, THE FOG starring ADRIENNE BARBEAU, JAMIE LEIGH CURTIS, TOM ATKINS, JANET LEIGH and HAL HOLBROOK. The residents of Antonio Bay are in for quite a shock when their town's Centennial celebration is invaded by a hoard of undead sailors hellbent on revenge. My shipmates during this meteorological massacre are world-famous actor MICHAEL KEYLOUN and the fabulous TARA GARNER. ***...

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...