FRIGHT SCHOOL

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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‘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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Welcome back to Fright School! Joe went to Palm Springs to study Queer zoology. Joshua gives Joe a fashion lesson (again). This week the Queers bash back in DEPARTING SENIORS! Is this HEARTSTOPPER with a slasher? We discuss the ongoing SCREAM influence in meta horror, James Baldwin's thoughts on White gays, and internalized homophobia. Fun stuff, kids!

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Welcome back to Fright School! Hi Gay! Joshua is excited for BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE. Joe went to prison and takes us to church! We’re continuing our Pride season 2024 (we are in San Diego, after all) with SPIRAL! It’s a suburban nightmare when a gay couple moves to small town ‘murica! We talk the politics of fear, shifting identities, and are reminded why jogging can be bad for your health. 

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Welcome back to FRIGHT SCHOOL! It’s that time of year again, priDEMONth! We’re kicking things off with a Fright School field trip to see I SAW THE TV GLOW!

I Saw the TV Glow’s Ending Is Full of Hope, If You Want It to Be

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Welcome back to Fright School! Happy St. Patrick's Day! How many pints of Irish are you? Joe is having a reunion with GIRLS5EVA and taking all of that girl power one step further with LOVE LIES BLEEDING. Joshua saw Madonna in Silver Daddy Land aka Palm Springs. This week, we are finishing up our mini salute to the Mary Shelley's enduring work FRANKENSTEIN with LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024)! This neon piece of comedy horror gets a bit overshadowed by its reverence for its references, but it is fun spotting the many and varied Easter eggs hiding in it. We wonder what the Future Legendary Spooky Children will think of the film in a few decades, chat about Diablo Cody's universe, and realize there is little to actually compare the film to in Mary Shelley's original novel. Oh well! Dig up some cans of TAB from the graveyard of 80s nostalgia, pop some popcorn, grab LISA FRANKESNTEIN, WEIRD SCIENCE and BEETLEJUICE and you may have the makings for a perfect slumber party with the Monster High Ghouls...

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua catches Joe up on 22 years of SOUTH PARK history. Joe breaks down SCHMIGADOON. Joe is also gifting the world with a Cabaret to benefit Lambda Archives! This week we're celebrating the tenth anniversary of EX MACHINA (2014). We compare the film to BLACK MIRROR, discuss human responsibility and AI, explore the film's relationship to FRANKENSTEIN, and debate the ethics of ChatGPT. Can a fashion forward gynoid drink a Cosmo?

Monstrous Creators and Exploited Creatures: Ex Machina and Frankenstein by Screen Queens

An Examination of Themes of Consciousness and Humanity in Ex Machina

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