Fear Coded

Norman Bates, the Queer Christmas Folk Hero (Psycho - 1960)


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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!

This podcast is a proud part of the ⁠⁠Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective⁠⁠.

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Music credit to Alex Besss (⁠⁠⁠@AlexBesss_Music on YouTube⁠⁠⁠) "Dance with Fate" (⁠⁠⁠CC BY-NC-SA 2.0⁠⁠⁠)

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.

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