FRIGHT SCHOOL

Welcome back to Fright School! We're back on our Queer horror kick this week! First let us introduce you to Altan Tealeaf during our Dungeons and Dragons chat. This week we discuss the Queer things going on in THE OLD DARK HOUSE! We discuss Post WWI pessimism, repression depression, and why Straights rush in. This one is all about laughter and sin- what could be more PRIDE than that?!

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Welcome back to Fright School! This week we welcome to the Wes Craven Memorial Library Miss Amber St. James! This African Bearded Queen tells us all about her Drag Herstory, love of Horror, and what to expect at San Diego Pride! We took a field trip to see THE BLACKENING! We chat Spades and other games we cannot win, the short that inspired the film, and the intersections of Queerness and Blackness.

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THE BLACKENING now available digitally!

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Welcome Back to Fright School! Joe attended and read names at Rainbow Graduation for the future legendary Queer children. We discuss Gender Apathy and the art of reading. Joshua recounts attending the Garbage concert and being aggressively complemented. Joe is going to Janet Jackson! Joshua is sooooo jealous. This week we are having some fun with ONCE BITTEN! It is all about a vampire lamenting the fact that there were no virgins in the 80s. We chat about Hollywood on film, Trans Panic, the wise minority figure, and Sebastien as a Queer Renfield.

‘Once Bitten’ And Sebastian, The Film’s Queer Renfield by Joshua Anderson

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Welcome back to Fright School! On this week's episode we are joined by the Maven of the Eventide herself, Elisa Hansen! Joshua and Elisa catch up after visiting Romania together. Elisa shares her love for the vampire and the Phantom of the Opera. Joe is delighted to not be left out of the discussion by chatting about Broadway musicals! This episode is very special because Joshua has long said Fright school would never cover INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, but here we are! Elisa brings her extensive knowledge of Anne Rice's work to the discussion and helps us bury a long shared rumor about Tom Cruise's role in changing the film. We discuss the 90s panic surrounding gay adoption, casting Cher in the film, and the tragedy of Claudia.

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Join the Fright School book club by reading Elisa's book THE COMPANY OF DEATH!

GENDER CONVENTIONS: HOMOSEXUAL EROTICISM AND FAMILY LIAISONS IN ANNE RICE AND NEIL JORDAN’S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE by Iulia-Mădălina PINTILIE

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua and Joe get serious about performative allyship. We share our memories of our first Pride celebrations. this week we are exploring an island full of Lesbian vampires in VAMPYROS LESBOS! Like last week's episode, we met another behavioral health professional attempting to treat vampirism. We wonder what Freud would think of this application of psychoanalysis? We revisit our Aryan vs Eastern European trope, discuss the myth of sexual violence as a catalyst for lesbianism, and predatory Queers.

Out for Blood: Vampire Lesbian Tropes Never Grow Old by Marie V Alessandro

The Haunt of Injustice: Exploring Homophobia in Vampire Literature by Clare Nee

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Happy PRIDE month Fright School! Joshua and Joe finished The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel! We take a moment to remember Tina Turner. Joe gives a quick lesson in why San Diego Pride is in July. This month, we are dedicating our episodes to Queer vampires starting with 1936's DRACULA'S DAUGHTER! We dive into vampirism as a form of internalized homophobia, the medicalization of Queer people, and the predatory Lesbian in film. Could Cognitive Behavioral Therapy work for gay vampires? Dr. Garth is sure trying to find out!

CODED QUEERNESS IN DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) by Elizabeth Erwin

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Welcome back to Fright School! Joshua joined a macabre of goths at the Cruel World Fest! Joe has been watching XO Kitty and getting very cultured with Eurovision. The boys discuss Heartstopper season 2 and anticipate The Little Mermaid. This week, Joe wraps up his takeover with SANZARU! It's a Southern Gothic tale with a Filipino twist. We chat about the horror of Texas, cultural humility, the Aswang, and gothic liminality.

American Southern Gothic Meets Filipino Ghosts in SANZARU

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Welcome back to Fright School! We fully support the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike! Chat GPT is not going to do it. Joe gets serious about a typhoon coming for Guam. Joshua discusses his trip to Poland and sites of the Holocaust. Yesterday was Harvey Milk Day and World Goth Day! We're obviously going more for goth on this episode... This week Joe continues his takeover with THE DEAD LANDS! In this Maori language film we get Hamlet by way of the Predator and learn "even small things can be useful." Hmmm.. there's gotta be a joke in there somewhere. Also, Joe watched SPIKE TV?!

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Welcome back to Fright School! We thought we'd celebrate Mother's Day a little early with a discussion of our favorite mothers in horror! We also share some stories about our own mothers. Awwwww. This week AAPI Heritage Month continues with UMMA. Joshua is mostly afraid by the beginning's Gilmore Girl's b.s. We chat about obligations to family, a little family systems theory, and THAT killer hanbok. Girl, she is THE moment!

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