Progressively Horrified

Trigger warning: conversion camps, conversion therapy, honey pots, shock therapy, aversion therapy, torture, nudity, transphobia, biphobia, homophobia, gaslighting, homophobic violence. rape, sexual assault.

It used to be that when you started looking for horror movies with queer content to talk about during Pride you had to settle for a lot of "feels queer" and "this straight person is a queer icon" or "queer subtext".

I have good news and bad news. 

The Good News: "They/Them" from Peacock stars a dozen or so explicitly queer teen characters.

The Bad News: This movie is an absolute stinker that has no idea what it is or what it wants to do. We go from shock therapy to Glee style musical numbers of P!NK songs. It's all handled with the precision and subtlety of a Dick Cheney hunting trip. 

Other good news: it does seem that non-binary people are invisible and free to move around with no restriction of gender or plot.

Other bad news: The ending of this thing should be saved for the last day of June because it is sure to propel you directly into Gay Wrath. It is next level bad. It somehow manages to be both nonsensical and undercut the entire rest of the movie. Wait till you hear about the unquestioning love and faith that a black trans woman has in the local police!

Recommendations:
Literally anything else. We do not recommend this movie. We barely even recommend this podcast, but here we are.

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This week we're watching another movie from the guy that brought you the beach that makes you old, Knock at the Cabin (2023)

• Director: M Night Shyamalan
• Writers: Paul Tremblay, M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond
• Stars: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka Bird, and Rupert Grint

Recommendations: 

• Kev - The Mist / The Rapture / Sunshine
• Steve - Cube
• Emily - Mindhunter / Yellowjackets
• Ben - The Matrix Resurrections
• Jeremy - M3gan, The Last of Us

Where to Follow:

• Kevin is on Twitter @electricdracula
• Steve is on Twitter @dead_anchoress and on the Talking Comics Podcast
• Emily is on Twitter @megamoth and online at Megamoth.net
• Ben is on Twitter @benthekahn and online at benkahncomics.com
• Jeremy is on Twitter @jrome58 and online JeremyWhitley.com

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Trigger Warnings: Domestic abuse, gaslighting, hallucination, torture, blood and guts, extreme violence, compound fractures, police, mental health.

They said it was impossible, but here's the movie with a disability twist that might actually be too dumb to criticize. Your mileage may vary, but James Wan's Malignant is definitely going to elicit some reaction from you!

Wan is the most recent AAPI director we're highlighting this week, with a huge slew of horror and non-horror movies and a massive production company of his own in Atomic Monster, there are few genre directors with more influence...which is sort of the only reason I can imagine this movie got made at all.

Recommendations:
M3gan
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
These Fleeting Shadows
Gunpowder Milkshake
Nobody
Renfield
Banshees (from Scout Comics)
John Wick
The Seattle Underground (the actual place, not many of the other things probably named this in popular culture)

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AAPI Heritage month continues as we highlight pacific islander director Taika Waititi and talk about the original film that spawned the FX tv masterpiece. Our friend Carrie Tupper joins us to talk about the movie that proposes: what if Louie from Interview with a Vampire, Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Edward from Twilight, and Nosferatu were roommates in New Zealand. The answers may surprise you!

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We open up AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Island) Heritage month by talking about our girl Karyn Kusama and The Invitation. 
You know how sometimes you have a tragic divorce and your ex runs off and joins a cult for six months with her new husband? And then when they do come back they want to tell you all about the joy of death show you videos about euthanasia? And you know how your new black girlfriend thinks all of this is perfectly normal and is very cool with being shut up in a scary LA villa with a bunch of death obsessed cultists and never raises the slightest objection to any of this and acts like you're crazy for thinking it's at all strange? And then you find out your friend that supposedly has been running late left you a message saying they actually showed up early and you're pretty sure he's dead?
Has this ever happened to you?

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Sometimes you set out to make a fairy tale about monsters and end up with a touching portrait of an escapist child in the Spanish Civil War. And sometimes you end up with a story about a fish that fucks. I bet you can't guess which one won best picture?
We call it a wrap on Guillermo Del Toro month by talking about The Shape of Water. The big twist? Not an S shape, like you would think.

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It's Pan's Labyrinth! It's a fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War - and please be forewarned, this is definitely not for kids.

TW: Child Endangerment, War, Fascism, Extreme Violence

Where to Follow:
Carrie Tupper: @mermaidshells, and at Kamikaze Comic
Emmanuel: @elipscomb2
Emily: @megamoth, and at Megamoth.net
Ben: @benthekahn, and at benkahncomics.com
Jeremy: @jrome58, and at JeremyWhitley.com

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Guillermo Del Toro month continues with his first movie about the Spanish Civil War, The Devil's Backbone.

It's a story about fighting fascists, angry orphans, and deciding whether you want to be redeemed or damned for your pride. It is also horny in ways you might not be expecting. So hide all your gold bars, fuel up your truck, and take a shot of dead baby liquor - it's time for Progressively Horrified!

Recommendations:

• Susan - Jojo Rabbit
• Ivy - The Others, His House, The Haunting
• Ben - Matilda
• Jeremy - All About My Mother

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Greg Silber and Tina Horn join The Horror Squad to talk about Ari Aster's cult and folk-horror Midsommar (2019).
 
TW: Abuse, Suicide, Ableism, Rape/Sexual Assault, Torture.

The Basics

• Director: Ari Aster
• Writers: Ari Aster
• Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, and Vilhelm Blomgren.

Recommendations

Greg - The Ritual
Tina - “The Satanic Death Cult is Real” “The Nib”, Deprog
Emily - Heilung, Insomnia, Moomin
Ben - Eurotrip
Jeremy - Old Gods of Appalachia

Where to Find Us Online

@ProgressivelyHorrified on Twitter or [email protected]

Greg: Twitter - @GregSilber
Tina: Twitter: @tinahornsass and at www.tinahorn.net
Emily: Twitter @megamoth, and at Megamoth.net
Ben: Twitter @benthekahn, and at benkahncomics.com
Jeremy: Twitter @jrome58, and at JeremyWhitley.com

Theme: “Epic Darkness” by Mariokhol06, provided royalty free from Pixabay

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