We dodge the Hays Code while proclaiming that we are divine as we roll back to talk about one of the classics, the 1931 film by James Whale, Frankenstein. Names get changed, brains get zippy zapped, and heads get bonked as we talk about this original monster movie. We will answer the hard questions! Who is Frankenstein? Why do queers betray each other? Is science gay?

In the end, the conversation is alive, it's alive, it's alive!

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References:

Del Valle, David. “CURTIS HARRINGTON ON JAMES WHALE” Films in Review, 1996

Noriega, Chon. "“Something’s Missing Here!”: Homosexuality and Film Reviews during the Production Code Era, 1934–1962" JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 58, 2018, p. 20-41. Project MUSE.

From found footage to early internet forum posts, we each share an entry from the deep well that is Internet Horror for our first bonus episode for October!

David's pick, The Dionaea House by Eric Heisserer:

Tyler's pick, The Backrooms:

Merrilee's pick, No Through Road by Steven Chamberlain:

We are answering your questions as a special Halloween treat! Please submit questions by October 25 to our social media or to [email protected].

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You're traveling through another dimension - a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrously queer land whose heteronormative boundaries are made to be broken by your imagination. That's a signpost up ahead. It reads, your next stop: Fear Coded covering the anthology television series by Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone!

In particular, we take a queer reading of two episodes, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit." We talk about how NextDoor in the modern day mob mentality, the unease associated with clowns and bagpipers, and take a detour to the fertile fields of Stardew Valley.

Note: David erroneously identifies anthropologist Robin Dunbar as deceased, stupidly believing that any thought leader he learned about in school must be long dead, but Dr. Dunbar is alive and indeed is publishing about how social media continues to reflect his work around how our poor little brains just weren't designed to know so many people. You can read more about his work in his recent text Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships from 2021.

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Other References:

Barker, Stephen. “‘Five Characters In Search Of An Exit’: These Two Plays Inspired The Classic Twilight Zone Episode" 2024

Fludd, J.A. "Say It Isn't So, Rod" 2009

Pargin, Jason. "What is the Monkeysphere" 2007

We are watching X-Files with no lights on (I hope the Smoking Man's in this one) as we simulate walking through our return home in the 2013 video game Gone Home by The Fullbright Company. We hunt ghosts with our girlfriend and adorn our lockers with starlets exclusively covered on The Mixed Reviews podcast as we walk into not just a horror story, but a love story, and the most zine-filled of all the decades: the 1990s.

It's Steggy? Stelly? It's Steggy.

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Check out the Novel Gaming Podcast and their episode on Gateway Games from June 2022 to hear Katie's thoughts on Gone Home (and awesome recommendations of other great games to get people into gaming from Vicki, Katie, and Doug).

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Other References:

Burr, L. "Haunted Spaces, Lived-In Places: A Narrative Archaeology of Gone Home" 2015

Murray, A. "Playing by a Different Set of Rules: The Narrative Structure of Gone Home" 2017

At the crossroads of high camp and arthouse, we find ourselves in the basement bedroom discussing the 2000 film by John Fawcett, Ginger Snaps. Take a big bite of your syrupy shortcake, iron your field hockey uniform, and track your cycle as we answer the question on everyone's minds: what is scarier? A werewolf? Or puberty?

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We just cannot fight this feeling anymore, so wax your mustaches, build some expensive Lego sets, and fill yourself with canned fish derivative recipes as we talk about the 2024 (but very much 80s throwback) film, Lisa Frankenstein by Zelda Williams. We hold faux goth bullies accountable while going full tilt into early 1990s Hot Topic, thinking about the Hamburglar, and pitching a new Fox reality show, The Masked Axe Killer.

Warning! This episode somehow contains spoilers for the 2007 Pixar film, Ratatouille.

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Attention Flan-a-fans and victorian ghost children! We don't lose ourselves or get trapped in a gravity well for ghosts while talking about the 2020 series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and its thrilling and queer conclusion episode "The Beast in the Jungle." We may not end up ghosts forever, but we do talk about Sinjin traps, cute 90s lesbian romance AU, and weirdly prescient plague doctor ghosts. We also all three are afraid of heat (the one that means spices, the one that is a temperature, and the one that is water which creates devastating tropical storms)!

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Start your showers and follow us closely (like a certain graduate of the Bob Hoskins School of Stout Handsome Gentleman, Arbogast) as we go back to one of the foundational films for the horror genre: Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

We all go a little mad sometimes, but along the way, we talk about the real villains of housing markets, toxic masculinity, and 1960s homophobia.

You think we're fruity, do you?! Well you don't even know the half of it!

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Clip from Alfred Hitchcock Presents as captured by the Internet Archive. Support digital preservation by visiting https://archive.org/donate

Clip from Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror, episode #1.2, interview with Osgood "Oz" Perkins, available on Shudder.

Clip of "Eroica" by Ludwig van Beethoven performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, as captured by DW Classical Music on YouTube.

Other References:

Clover, Carol J. "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film." The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant, University of Texas Austin, 2015, pp. 68-115.

Heat up your unidentifiable bowls of porridge, knock your cousin off a treehouse, and LET US IN to talk about the 2014 film The Babadook. Has this always been a queer hero, or was that status only the result of clerical error? We'll be talking the man, the meme, and all the creepy crawlies that lie beneath that stylish hat.

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Who are we? How did we get here? What do we think of horror? And most importantly: does a cilantro aversion and roller coaster predilection have a relationship with how big of a scaredy cat you are?

Find out the answer to all of these questions, and others with this introductory episode of the podcast. Each co-host gets a chance to tell you our journey and then we go all Randy Meeks on setting up the rules for the podcast by talking about the horror genre and queer theory.

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