LGBT+ Themes 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...

THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part 1 - "Queer Stereotypes" Don't you hate it when your favorite disco is also an ancient Templar shrine and you die in a freak foam party accident and your soul is forced to walk the earth for the next 700 years? ME TOO! Pride Month is off to a very silly start with the adorable yet kinda problematic 2006 French comedy POLTERGAY. Boogie down with my very special guest TRAE DEAN ("DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!") and me on this madcap tour through the Gay Afterlife. PO...

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...

Get ready to blast off into a galaxy of gay camp and mortal terror as we go do the depths of space to battle the QUEEN OF BLOOD! A group of astronauts on a rescue mission to Mars suddenly find themselves on the menu when the beautiful female alien they've rescued turns out to be a bloodsucking femme fatale. A solo mission to space isn't any fun. That's why I've packed today's flight roster full of beefcake. My special guests are the boys of MONSTER MAKEUP LLC, the crew that brought us DEATH DR...

"For a short person, you have long sentences." Start your holiday season with our MILDLY INAPPROPRIATE HOLIDAY SPECIAL where we discuss a film that is at best tangentially related to either the holiday season or the usual format for the show. This year, we're diving into the 1980 murder mystery spoof THE PRIVATE EYES starring comedy legends TIM CONWAY ("The Carol Burnett Show". "Dorf on Golf" and DON KNOTTS ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Three's Company", "The Ghost & Mr. Chicken") In THE PRIVATE...

Season Twelve kicks off with some holy terror as we discuss the last temptation of SAINT MAUD (2019). Here to help me dodge the fire and brimstone and possibly provoke the wrath of God are my very special guests KASEY LOMAN, the creative mind behind EVILGOODS DESIGN and the FEMMES OF FRIGHT collection, and NICOLE DAVIS, co-host of MOVIE GO ROUND. In SAINT MAUD, a rather unstable nurse who has had a recent religious conversion is assigned a new patient and will go to dangerous lengths to save th...

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...

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:...

(This episode initially posted missing about 30 minutes of the show. This is the complete version. My apologies for any confusion.) Take a journey back in time with us to a world of mythological monsters, petulant gods, men in miniskirts and marauding MAGGIE SMITHs. I'm finishing off our pre-holiday look at Horror-Adjacent Comfort Films with a chat on 1981's CLASH OF THE TITANS directed by DESMOND DAVID and starring HARRY HAMLIN, LAURENCE OLIVIER, CLAIRE BLOOM, BURGESS MEREDITH and the eternall...

You survived Election Day. But can you survive another FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR!! Celebrate the unluckiest day of the year with a peak behind The Paywall with another full episode of our Patreon-exclusive FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES retrospective podcast, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" In "The Poison Pen", Ryan and Micki must go undercover as monks to infiltrate a monastery in order to retrieve a cursed quill pen that spells Doomsday for anyone who crosses its owner's path. My trusty but snarky ...

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...

(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> ...

Once upon a time, two fierce young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about the legend of Mark Patton. They were never heard from again... In this fourth installment of my casual chats with out gay horror filmmakers, I'm honored to have with me TYLER JENSEN and ROMAN CHIMIENTI, the co-directors of the smash hit documentary SCREAM QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. In addition to discussing the challenges of piecing together a cohesive and powerful story as it unfolds in real time, we discu...

Meet the creators of the upcoming queer drag-themed slasher epic DEATH DROP GORGEOUS! CHRISTOPHER DALPE, BRANDON PERRAS-SANCHEZ & MICHAEL AHERN Get all the inside dish on how a group of friends managed to take their dream of making a gay horror film from idle chat all the way to glorious gore-streaked reality…and still remain friends! Check out the brand new trailer recut by TYLER JENSEN & ROMAN CHIMIENTI from SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xO1q4...

This Pride Month, Meet The Out LGBT Filmmakers of Independent Horror. ALAN ROWE KELLY Sculpture, Gallery of Fear, The Blood Shed, Tales of Poe Join me for a casual conversation with Actor/Director/Producer ALAN ROWE KELLY as we discuss his transition from the world of fashion and makeup into horror, gender ambiguity. celebrity run-ins, and primal fears when you're living queer. You're invited to a very special PRIDE MONTH DOUBLE FEATURE WATCH PARTY showcasing the films of BART MASTRONARDI & AL...

This Pride Month, Meet The Out LGBT Filmmakers of Independent Horror. BART MASTRONARDI Vindication, Tales of Poe Before introducing you to ALAN ROWE KELLY, the next guest in this Pride Month series, I thought a refresher course on Bart would be helpful since these two work so frequently together. During our insightful chat which first aired in December of 2018, we discuss some of the behind-the-scenes stories of the making of TALES OF POE, featured in Episode 227, how he managed to wrangle all...

“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...

Something queer is afoot at Jim & Linda's house...and it has nothing to do with their Oujia board! Sometimes you revisit an old favorite you haven't seen in a long time, and discover a whole new movie. This is one of those time. Helping me navigate these strange new uncharted waters are special guests MATT KNIFE and CUBBY HALL! WITCHBOARD was directed by KEVIN TENNEY and stars TAWNY KITAEN, TODD ALLEN, STEPHEN NICHOLS and KATHLEEN WILHOITE. SLASHER SATURDAY WATCH PARTY of POPCORN (1992), Apr...

Celebrate Women in Horror Month with a flashback to episode 75 discussing the radical lesbian feminist slasher classic THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE directed by AMY HOLDEN JONES and written by RITA MAE BROWN. My special guests are world famous actress ALENA ACKER and author ROBERT R. BEST. Plus, you get a brand new rant about the disservice you're doing if you only think of the film as "feminist". Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly new survivor horror novel BLISS by Brandon...

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 Show NOtes TBA Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly new survivor horror novel BLISS by Brandon Halsey on Amazon! "It's like 28 DAYS LATER meets THE STAND meets TRAINSPOTTING!" Bliss Promo This podcast uses the following third-party services for...

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...

This episode is hopefully the last of the test episodes to ensure the fixes we put in place are actually working. Enjoy a trip back to Season One of ScreamQueenz when Joan Crawford got axe-happy and hilarity ensued in William Castle's STRAIT-JACKET. Donate to New Alternatives and help out homeless LGBT teens at bit.ly/sqpodna. Mentioned in this episode: Bliss Book Pick up the gnarly new survivor horror novel BLISS by Brandon Halsey on Amazon! "It's like 28 DAYS LATER meets THE STAND meets TR...

Day 4 of the Countdown To Halloween Pod-a-Thon finds me trapped in an ancient British manor house with a horde of creepy rich people; one of whom is murdering the other guests one by one via witchcraft! We're talking about director Richard Marquand's elegantly wicked chiller, THE LEGACY, starring Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott and his chest pelt, Roger Daltry, creepy cats, creepy nurses, janky jewelry, choking chicken, luxury plaid muumuus, the song stylings of Kiki Dee and some spectacular black ...