Offbeat Episodes

THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part Two - "Queer Prejudices" On the next leg of our journey to the ugly underbelly of LGBT+ life, we're heading to Providence, Rhode Island for the dragtastic, glitter-sprinkled, and gore-streaked queer slasher, DEATH DROP GORGEOUS (2020). A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood. Lurking under the glitz, glamour and fabul...

With Friday, May 13th looming on the calendar, it's time for another FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR episode! This time we're celebrating the work of JOHN CARL BUECHLER ("Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood") and his infamous 1986 cult classic TROLL. A banished troll king seeks to bring back his lost world of dark fairies by nefariously transforming the residents of a San Francisco apartment building into evil mystical creatures. Whimsical fantasy or antigay propaganda? YOU DECIDE! My special g...

Old Hollywood had a name for movies like PICTURE MOMMY DEAD. Schlock. "A Schlock film is the term given to a film that represents a low-budget horror flick. With overly-sensational plots, lurid special effects, and perhaps a bit of immature, albeit comedic, gag style humor ." -BeverlyBoy.com Today, we might call it campy or cheesy or trashy, but whatever name you call it, it's a Big Gay Horror Good Time! PICTURE MOMMY DEAD is a schlocktacular potboiler of a thriller with all the classic Gothi...

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 ...

Once upon a time...three handsome and available Queenz got together to talk about a movie. Come listen as we put the fairy in fairy tale. I'm joined this episode by TYLER JENSEN and ROMAN CHIMIENTI, the co-directors of SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, to dig into STUART GORDON's bloody bedtime story, DOLLS. A ragtag group of lost travelers takes shelter from a storm by spending the night in a secluded mansion owned by a seemingly kindly toymaker, his wife and their army of bloodthir...

Meet the Hoffheinze family. They're respectable...presentable....and dangerous as hell. You are aboiut to watch a century's worth of their family history through the eyes of the one witness who has witnessed their crimes....who knows their secrets....and has never said a word. The moosehead over their mantel. Febraury is #WomenInHorrorMonth www.WomenInHorrorMonth.com, so I'm presenting you with an anthology film of sorts that boasts four female directors and a female screenwriter. And to he...

Before SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT, there was another Psycho Santa out to ruin your Christmas. Directed by DAVID HESS, star of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, TO ALL A GOODNIGHT (1980) is the cautionary tale of a group of finishing school girls who decide to drug their housemother so that they can throw the Christmas party to end all Christmas parties. But before you can say, "What could possibly go wrong?", a killer in a Santa Claus crashes the party and puts an end to their holly jolly hootenanny. Oh,...

Beyond the door of THE NIGHTMARE CLOSET waiting to make me confront my childhood terrors lies... BEYOND THE DOOR from 1974 (aka CHI SEI?) In this utterly shameless ripoff of both THE EXORCIST and ROSEMARY'S BABY, Jessica's expectancy isn't going as expected, because her future bundle of joy has already been earmarked by Satan to be his emissary of evil on Earth. Prepare yourself for: projectile vomiting spinning heads highball eyeballs Pottymouth Patty flying flan depraved dolls nasal fl...

"I Do Not Care For Hunky Boys...Or do I???" July 26th marks eleven years since ScreamQueenz first hit the airwaves. Celebrate this dubious milestone and the end of this season with a sci-fi horror comedy love letter to the '80s & '90s that's like MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS had a baby with MY GIRL. And that baby smoked a lot of crack. Like, a LOT of crack! That movie is PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN. After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, Mimi, a young g...

"My God...They're All Mad." For the first time in a long time, the door of THE NIGHTMARE CLOSET is about to slowly swing open once again and unleash another movie that completely traumatized me when I saw it as a child. This time, the evil let loose upon the world is BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN (1971). The tiny town of Hillsboro finds itself under attack by mysterious unknown forces. Unable to leave, entire families are slaughtered while the children vanish without a trace. Little do they know that a...

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...

"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...

"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 ...

"Get Ready for the Violence of the Lambs..." It is a fact that there are more sheep in New Zealand. This tidbit of truth makes the New Zealand-based horror-comedy BLACK SHEEP all the more delicious! Thanks to brilliant gooey, over-the-top gore and monster effects, the seemingly stupid concept of "killer sheep" becomes genuinely terrifying. Add a dryly hilarious script to balance out the bloodshed, and you've got one humdinger of a Kiwi horror-comedy! When ovinophobic Henry returns to his fami...

Our celebration of WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH continues with a discussion of the powerful and controversial film SWALLOW. I am delighted to be joined by two very special guests: gender-bending queer horror filmmaker ALAN ROWE KELLY (Tales of Poe, The Blood Shed) and cohost of the MOVIE GO ROUND podcast NICOLE DAVIS. **This episode contains frank discussions of sexual assault, domestic abuse and eating disorders. See below for links to resources that provide help** Plus, I sit down for a chat with t...

This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Steven Stein Grainger. The previously announced episode on DEATH DROP GORGEOUS had to be unavoidably delayed in order to properly grieve the loss of a cherished friend. Instead, you're getting a previously recorded episode of THE FINAL REEL, which is one of the two podcasts that I produce exclusively for my Patreon Super Screamerz. In Pre-COVID days, TFR provided listeners with my hot takes on the major horror movie theatrical release; often befor...

Happy holidays, my Beautiful Screamerz! I let YOU pick the movie for this LISTENER TAKEOVER episode, and you chose the Scottish Christmas zombie musical ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE (2017). On hand to join in the toe-tappin' gut-munchin' Yuletide merriment are everyone's favorite Ska-lovin' boob aficionados, ALLISON NOWACKI and BRYAN POLK! Plus, I read your reviews, and we finally answer the age-old question: Do zombies poop? Merry Christmas? **** 03:45 Listener Reviews 05:55 Main Segment 1:...

“It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.” -Guillermo Del Toro To kick off Pride Month, I've chosen to discuss GUILLERMO DEL TORO's Oscar-winning fantasy film, THE SHAPE OF WATER. On the surface, the story appears to be simply a sci fi Beauty and the Beast/Creature From the Black Lagoon mashup. Look closer, and you'll see a story of people who are considered "less than" by a cruel and soulless society who rise up to fight against that system...

A Heartwarmingly wholesome tale of a boy and his....zombie?? FIDO, directed by ANDREW CURRIE, takes to a picture perfect pop art white picket fence and apple pie post-zombie apocalypse 1950's style world where the undead serve as harmless domestic servants, nannies and Mother's Little Helpers. When little Timmy's family adopt Fido to be their house ghoul, hearty laughs and wholesome good times are sure to follow...as well as total societal upheaval and just a teeny tiny zombie uprising or two....

– 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...

When two innocent country-folk get mistaken for serial killers by a bunch of vacationing college kids, mayhem and self-mutilation ensue in the charming horror-comedy TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL. Boob-and Ska fanatics ALLISON NOWACKI and BRYAN J. POLK are on hand to kick off my insanely self-indulgent 50th birthday month celebration. TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL was directed by ELI CRAIG and stars ALAN TUDYK ("Firefly", "Dollhouse"), TYLER LABINE ("Reaper", "Escape Room") and KATRINA BOWDEN ("30 Rock") ...

This episode is part of the EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN Fundraiser Benefiting New Alternatives for Homeless LGBT Youth. Help save a life this holiday season. Donate to New Alternatives at bit.ly/sqpodna or via Facebook at bit.ly/sqpodfb **** SERIAL MOM, directed by legendary homosexual and self-proclaimed "Pope of Filth" JOHN WATERS, stars KATHLEEN TURNER in a tour-de-fabulous performance as Beverly Sutphin, a seemingly perfect suburban wife and mother who just might also be the perfect killing machi...

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...