FRIGHT SCHOOL

Welcome back to Fright School! Joe and Joshua both started new jobs! We discuss censorship and horror as it relates to A SERBIAN FILM. Joe shares some American Horror Story Nostalgia. This week we sample THE SUBSTANCE. Light spoilers ahead!

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week, we welcome the Managing Director of Lambda Archives of San Diego Nicole Verdes to the show! We chat about Nicole's history with the Archives and our upcoming coproduction the FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL! Joe shares about his trip to Vegas and living his life to the fullest while Joshua celebrated the fact that his is going to end at the MEMENTO MORI FESTIVAL in Los Angeles. This week, we try something new on the show. Instead of talking about a specific movie, Nicole gives us a history of the Hays Code and its effect on film history. We dive deep into how the Hays Code came to be, how it impacted horror particularly in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and historical parallels and repercussions to the lived experience of Queer people.

Recommended reading:

The Hays Code Explained: History of Hollywood’s Hays Code

Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret Censorship Battles and How They Changed Film History

From Sissies to Secrecy: The Evolution of the Hays Code Queer by Mikayla Mislak

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Get tickets to the REIGN OF REVOLUTION: The Haus of St. James Experience Exhibit

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Willkommen zurück in der Fright School! This week we welcome Pia Thrasher to the Wes Craven Memorial Library! Pia is an award winning actor, writer, director, and multi-media artist drawn to dark and surreal themes. Joe discusses DIDI and his connection to the film. Joshua and Pia bond over their love of ATOMIC BLONDE. This week, the group engages in Joshua's favorite self-care activity: THE DEVIL'S BATH. TRIGGER WARNING! The group discusses the "rationality" of suicide-by-proxy, Catholic death rites, the struggle for those that do not fit into neat boxes to survive in any society, and the role context may play in depression.

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A hell of an incentive for murder: a rationalist’s guide to suicide by Mike Pottenger

Suicide by Proxy: In early Modern Europe, suicide was a sin to be punished with eternal damnation. Some women found an awful workaround: committing murder.

Tragic History Informs the Slow Burn Horrors of The Devil’s Bath By Kathy Michelle Chacón  

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua is excited for the NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Lego set and the launch of Spooky Season! Joe defends THE ACOLYTE. Have you bought tickets to our FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL yet ?!? This week we look at a case of demonic possession in THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. We discuss courtroom tropes, how horror contributes to misinformation, and consider whether or not exorcism is a contact sport.

Faith and Judgment in ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ by Federico Furzan

The True Story Behind 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' Is Just as Disturbing by Lloyd Farley

Leeja Miller (Real Life Lawyer) reacts to THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE on YouTube

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua and Joe are both drink goblins! Joe kicks off Spooky Season with some pumpkin spice. We continue to work on the FREAKY KIKI HORROR BALL! this week we traveled to the BORDERLAND (2007). We discuss the ethics of horror films "based on actual events," the Mexico border in the American Imagination, and how the ongoing War on Drugs informs more horror films than it helps people struggling with addiction.

The Narcosatanist (HBO): A docuseries chronicling a rash of brutal murders linked to alleged drug-dealing satanic serial killers Adolfo Costanza and Sara Aldrete.

The Narco Saint: How a Mexican folk idol got conscripted into the drug wars by Ann Neumann

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week we are celebrating Summerween! Joshua doesn't know shit about THE FLINTSTONES but he has been catching up on INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Joe is once again attacked by fatphobia and he has the scar to prove it! We're dedicating the next few episodes to an exploration of fact versus fiction starting with WINCHESTER (2018)! We break down the myths associated with Sarah Winchester, her spooky house, and the famous rifle. Is the true horror just patriarchy and capitalism?!

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Winchester: The True Ghost Story Behind Helen Mirren’s Haunted House Thriller By Joanna Robinson

Labyrinth of Lies: The Truth Behind the Sarah Winchester Mystery House

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week we recap our love for our Geekscape family while trying to summarize Comic Con. Joshua misses fashion. Joe talks hentai and lampshading. We give our thoughts on DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. This week we took a field trip to see TRAP (2024). We discuss making fake pop music work, inverting horror, the "true" story TRAP is inspired by, and Joe takes us back to the root of his Queer desire, Josh Hartnett.

Geekscape Enjoys the SDCC 2024 HER Universe Fashion Show

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week we're bringing you an episode from the Geekscape booth at San Diego Comic Con! We chat all things Queer Horror with Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli author of Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator!

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Bienvenue à Fright School! We're going French again this week! But first, we're going to Comic Con! Find us hanging out at the Geekscape booth #1632 all week long. Keep an eye on our social media for dispatches from the con throughout the week. We share some CC memories and look forward to seeing our friend and Podfather, Matt Kelly (from Horror Movie Night, White People Problems, Christmas 365, Weird Al-gorithm, One Hit Thunder and the many other shows he produces since he does not seem to need sleep)! This week we watched CALVAIRE. What could go wrong when a cabaret singer gets stranded in the Belgium countryside? We discuss the brutal intimacy of the film, debate whether a film can be feminist without centering women characters, and Joshua teaches Joe a new word.

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We're throwing a ball! Check out the Freaky Kiki Horror Ball coming this October!

‘Calvaire’ and Horror in the Absence of a Matriarch by Jenn Adams

THE DISQUIETING GUEST — CALVAIRE AND THE TYRANNIES OF DESIRE by Skiffy Fanty

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Welcome back to FRIGHT SCHOOL! Happy Pride Week, San Diego! Joshua saw LONGLEGS and IN A VIOLENT NATURE with mixed results. Joe spent an evening in a women's prion with Melissa Etheridge. What's up with Joe and prisons lately? Joshua does a terrible David Attenborough impression. This week, we get back to Joe's Catholic roots with SAINT MAUD! We discuss the allusions to CARRIE, THE EXORCIST, and DON'T LOOK NOW, how faith can sometimes look like mental illness and vice versa, reality testing, and the ecstasy of godgasms.

Recommended reading:

Saint Maud and the Terror of God’s Presence by Christina Pasqua

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