Fear Coded

This house is the paw-prety of a gang of queer cats and we will wade through every canned cat noise that has ever been made on our journey to explore the invasion of a straight family to this idyllic, remote house. It all starts going wrong when the original grumpy cat leads his army of stray cats to war - but can they vanquish a come-to-life cabbage patch doll of a child? Find out in this episode!

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Check out the YouTube page for Creature Features where you can watch fun horror films like Strays

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro, Scared & Prepared

00:07:50 Introduction to Strays

00:12:03 Themes

00:24:34 Is it Horror?

00:26:18 Is it Queer?

00:30:33 Beat-by-Beat Discussion

Well, it's terror time again! Tune your television sets to Exposition in the Morning and head back to the exploits of zombies, cats, dogs, and cat-people on the sort of misnamed Zombie Island (it's really more of a peninsula). We talk about the red herrings and try to work out the mystery of real monsters while jamming out to incredibly late 1990s rock, joined by Scooby superfan Amanda Souchik-Beudert to dive deep on this beloved classic.

These sure are some hot peppers, right, plot-important-character, Mona-the-catfish?

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro, Scared & Prepared

00:15:35 Introduction to Scooby Doo

00:24:49 Themes

00:37:11 Is it Horror?

00:43:25 Is it Queer?

00:49:27 Beat-by-Beat Discussion

Unlock childhood memories and listen to us discover that sun-dried tomatoes are just more effectively marketed tomato raisins as we discuss the children's horror classic Bunnicula, written by James and Deborah Howe.

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References:

Simon and Schuster biographical background of James Howe - http://www.bcplonline.org/kidspage/kids_howe.html

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro, Scared & Prepared

00:25:22 - Introduction to Bunnicula

00:31:57 - Themes

00:41:51 - Is it Horror?

00:45:57 - Is it Queer?

00:53:22 - Beat-by-Beat Discussion

01:30:15 - Conclusion

Wolfie lives!

Load up at the smorgasbord of horror tropes as we get together with our group of - are these supposed to be friends? - while we play the just-a-heterosexuality-simulator-until-the-murders-start with the 2015 horror video game, Until Dawn and its 2024 remake. We are joined by voice actor, Matt Bartlett (podcast credits: CHAD: A Fallout 76 Story, Do You Copy?, Nightmares Unleashed) while we survive jump scares, rough dialogues, and cultural appropriation as we all attempt to survive Until Dawn.

DON'T MOVE! Unless you need to check out more Matt on The QueerXP.

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References:

Brightman, Robert A. (1988). "The Windigo in the Material World". Ethnohistory. 35 (4): 337–379.

DeSanti, Brady (2015). "The Cannibal Talking Head: Portrayals of the Wendigo 'Monster' in Popular Culture and Ojibwe Traditions". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 

Johnston, Basil (1990). Ojibway Heritage. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Schiefenhövel, Wulf (June 2013). "Biased semantics for right and left in 50 Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages: Biased semantics for right and left in 50 languages". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

The Until Dawn Fandom Wiki (CC-BY-SA). Credit to XxSolarEclipsexX and Abtruse for their chapter description write-ups and Butterfly Effect write-ups - https://until-dawn.fandom.com/wiki/Until_Dawn 

Banff Alberta land acknowledgment: https://banff.ca/indigenouspeoples 

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro, Scared & Prepared

00:15:51 Overview of Until Dawn

00:23:48 Theme Discussion

00:32:50 The Wendigo

00:39:58 Is it Horror?

00:43:00 Is it Queer?

00:49:53 Game Mechanics

00:58:30 Prologue

01:09:03 Friendship / Momento Mori

01:19:21 Darkness / Jealousy

01:27:27 Haunted / Isolation

01:37:20 Loyalty / Malevolence

01:48:21 Dread / Prey

01:58:27 Psychosis / Vengeance

02:13:21 Loss / Violence

02:23:33 Animus / Revelation

02:37:16 Despair / Karma

02:45:33 Repentance / Resolution

02:55:20 Epilogue

03:00:01 Final Thoughts

We are keeping it campy this time with a soupçon of drama as we talk about the iconic television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the Season 3, Episode 6 entry, "Band Candy." You can just hear Principal Snyder telling you that there are some "foxy ladies here tonight," and he was talking about us! So whether you're no longer a girl, but not yet a slayer, or one half of a pair of ex-magic using lovers, we've got you covered.

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Read more:

Listen to Lani Diane Rich discuss "Anne" and her description of Joyce as a "conflict vending machine" on her podcast Still Pretty

Whedon, Joss, 2002. "Interview with Joss Whedon on 'Angel' & 'The Puppet Show.'" Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Complete First Season DVD Features. Disc 3 of 3. (David incorrectly identified this as commentary, but it was an interview, sorry!)

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro, Scared & Prepared

00:16:23 Introduction to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

00:23:53 Themes

00:30:30 Is it Horror?

00:34:07 Is it Queer?

00:38:51 "Previously on..."

00:43:53 Beat-by-Beat Discussion

They're all going to laugh at you ... if you don't listen to our conversation about the 1976 film, Carrie, that is. We talk about a saint who is a gay icon, a genuinely Dora the Explorer moment, and that big John Travolta jump scare in this film as we continue our journey through Jan-TEEN-uary, where we are talking teens in horror all month long!

They're called breasts, mama!

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Read more:

How Did a Third-Century Catholic Saint Become a Gay Icon? Here’s the Homoerotic History of Saint Sebastian

What is the Bechdel Test?

NPR Morning Edition interview with Alison Bechdel: "What is the Bechdel test? A shorthand for measuring representation in movies"

Lithub background on the Bechdel Test which includes an image of the 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic, "The Rule"

Welcome back, listeners. We love you all dearly and queerly as we talk about this totally 80s kickoff to our month-long celebration of TEENS with the 2016 novel by Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism. We've got the beat (and plenty of holy water) as we navigate what's normal, what's not normal, and what is supernatural!

The power of Phil Collins compels you to check out this episode, share, and subscribe as we go weekly for the rest of Jan-TEEN-uary!

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Read More:

De Young (2004). The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic.

De Young (1994). "One Face of the Devil: The Satanic Ritual Abuse Moral Crusade and the Law." Behavioral Sciences and the Law.

Bottoms & Davis (1997). "The Creation of Satanic Ritual Abuse." Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Wood, et al. (2009). "Child sexual abuse investigations: Lessons learned from the McMartin and other daycare cases." Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders: Psychological Science and the Law.

Ho ho ho! Happy holidays, listeners!

We promise not to moan into the microphone too much as we talk about the classic and inspirational horror Black Christmas from director Bob Clark. We ask if it's horror, if it's queer, and if it's Christmas while we talk about floofy cats, sneaky drinking, and toxic masculinity that comes adorned in gorgeous coats and floppy hair.

Wrap your presents, hang your mistletoe, and carefully place your glass unicorn ornaments as we dive into what all goes in to a horror movie set during Christmas in a big gay house.

Also, check out David's "special milk" recipe. You have to use your own judgment on spices and booze.

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Are we in the suburbs, or is it just a cloying prison manufactured to keep us compliant while we slowly suffocate? And really - what's the difference?

We'll attempt to find the truth alongside Doug Fink⁠ (⁠Walloping Websnappers⁠, ⁠Gimmicks⁠, ⁠Falling with Style⁠, ⁠Novel Gaming) as we talk about the must-discuss 2024 film I Saw the TV Glow by writer and director, Jane Schoenbrun.

We talk about the many points of inspiration from the filmmaker, how colors communicate the themes (even if you can't see them), and how the queers deserve a world that lets us breathe.

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References:

⁠I Saw the TV Glow Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun on the Trap – and Escape — of Fandom⁠ by Joshua Encinias for MovieMaker, 2024

You've Never Seen a Movie Like I Saw the TV Glow by Matthew Jacobs for Vanity Fair, 2024

Jane Schoenbrun Saw the TV Glow by Esther Zuckerman for Vulture, 2024

(throws a file across your desk) Ever heard of queer horror podcast aliens, Scully?!

We follow these iconic federal agents into rural Pennsylvania(?) while trusting no one as we talk about The X-Files episode "Home," perhaps one of the scariest episodes of the series. We navigate the very model of a modern major heterosexual of Mulder's character and we all get a bit feline, musically speaking.

It's our Thanksgiving episode, but you should ignore all poultry and instead focus on how much we ham up this episode.

Check out Merrilee's guest appearance on Gimmicks on Bad Blood, the famous vampire episode of The X-Files.

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Can't get enough podcasting about The X-Files? Check out The eX-Files: An X-Files Rewatch Podcast by Jenny Owen Youngs & Kristin Russo.