The movie discussed in this episode contains scenes of threats & acts of sexual violence. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the NATIONAL SEXUAL ASSULT HOTLINE at 1-800-656-HOPE(4673) or visit RAINN.org . Our month-long focus on SEAN S. CUNNINGHAM concludes with a look at his 1985 teen action thriller THE NEW KIDS (aka STRIKING BACK) . After being orphaned, Loren & Abby must relocate to live with their uncle and quickly run afoul of the local gang of drug-pushing bullies....
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Season 13Ep. 9
In the FRIDAY THE 13TH Spectacular episode, my guests and I told our Friday the 13th stories. At the FRIDAY THE 13TH Afterparty, you get to tell yours! Get ready for an hour of Camp Crystal Lake tales told by fellow Screamerz: tales that are touching, funny, embarrassing and might just bring a tear to your eye. For more information about the FRIDAY THE 13TH Film Location Tours, visit www.CrystalLakeTours.com Visit us at www.ScreamQueenz.com Follow us on FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE. Get acce...
Jan 14, 2023•41 min•Season 13Ep. 8
Thirteen years ago, I began the tradition of the FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR where I set out to discuss the FRIDAY THE 13th series in a way I hadn't heard before. Now, I'm thirteen years older. I'm thirteen years wiser. It's time to go back to where it all started. I'm going back to Camp Crystal Lake. But this time...I'm not going alone. I've enlisted the help of two fabulous out, gay horror filmmakers, BART MASTRONARDI (" Vindication ", " Tales of Poe ") and MICHAEL VARRATI (" Tales of Poe ", "...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Season 13Ep. 7
Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays...unless you live in the house a recently escaped killer used to reside in. Following the tradition of the past few years, I let you, the listeners, decide what holiday horror movie I covered in December. You spoke. I obey. The winner by a landslide was BLACK XMAS (2006) . A houseful of sorority sisters are about to wish they went home for Christmas break, because serial killer Billy Lenz just escaped from the mental hospital, and he doesn't care i...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Season 13Ep. 6
I've got COVID, so please enjoy this episode of "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" while I recover. Catch the episode we're discussing "Pipe Dream" on YouTube for free at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DpmX98KWT4 Ryan's long-absent father (guest star MICHAEL CONSTANTINE from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding) is getting married! But Uncle Lewis gave him a cursed pipe as a wedding gift. Can the Curious Goods crew retrieve the pipe and save Ray's soul before his dreams of happily ever after go up in smoke? My sho...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 33 min
Three young Evangelical movie users find a strange unmarked roll of film in the theater's basement. Thinking it might be porn, they screen the movie and accidentally unleash a bloodthirsty succubus. But in order to survive, they must not only conquer the demon they released but also the demons they hide within themselves. Despite the provocative title, PORNO (2019) isn't really about explicit nudity, sex and exploitation. At its core, it's a surprisingly thoughtful morality play about faith and ...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 13Ep. 5
Halloween may be over, but the horrific hijinx continue with the delightful vampire comedy I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME AT HOUSE HARKER (2016 ). The bumbling descendants of Jonothan and Mina Harker must raise $50,000 to save their ancestral home, and their elaborate scheme to cash in on their vampire-slaying history accidentally kicks off an actualvampire apocalypse. Oopsie. To add to the blood-soaked belly laughs, my special guests are MICHAEL HOWIE from Defender Radio and CHRISTOPHER GRONLUND from...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 13Ep. 4
All aboard for another flight into made-for-tv terror on Polyester Airlines as we journey back to the night of December 11, 1973 for the world premiere of the latest ABC Movie of the Week, " THE CAT CREATURE " starring MEREDITH BAXTER ("Family Ties", "All the President's Men"), DAVID HEDISON ("The Fly, "Live and Let Die"), GALE SONDERGAARD ("The Black Cat", "The Time of Their Lives") and STUART WHITMAN ("Night of the Lepus", "Shock Corridor"). After a mysterious Egyptian amulet is stolen from a ...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 13Ep. 3
CW: suicide, child abuse, child endangerment, sexual violence, dark psychological themes. Love bites. Love bleeds. Love lives. Love dies. Love begs. Love pleads. Love is Grimm. The final stop on our "Dark Side Of Rainbow" tour leads us into the darkest, most dangerous reaches of the forest where the only monsters are us. GRIMM LOVE is a fictionalization of the infamous "German gay cannibal case" in which Armin Meiwes killed and ate his willing victim Bernd Brandes . Yet despite the grisly sensat...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Season 13Ep. 2
Come along with me on a trippy decade-hopping trip through the magical, dangerous streets of London chasing down The Girl Of Your Dreams in EDGAR WRIGHT 's tale of ambition, desire, betrayal, music, madness, murder and mod mini dresses: LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (2021) . My very special guest for this neon-soaked nightmare is the extremely talented actor/screenwriter/director and cohost of the MIDNIGHT MASS podcast, MICHAEL VARRATI ( Dragula , Tales of Poe , History of Fright ). LAST NIGHT IN SOHO star...
Sep 24, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 13Ep. 1
This is a Summer Hiatus-Busting Bonus Episode of ScreamQueenz to help tide you over until the new season launches in September. "It Came From The 70s!" is one of the Premium Podcasts available only to our ScreamQueenz Patrons at Patreon . "The Horror at 37,000 Feet" episode of "It Came From The 70s!" first aired on Patreon on April 29, 2022 . Unlock all of our exclusive bonus content while supporting ScreamQueenz by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/ScreamQueenz. Welcome aboard, time travelers! "...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 26 min
THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part Two - "Queer Prejudices" On the next leg of our journey to the ugly underbelly of LGBT+ life, we're heading to Providence, Rhode Island for the dragtastic, glitter-sprinkled, and gore-streaked queer slasher, DEATH DROP GORGEOUS (2020). A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen try to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood. Lurking under the glitz, glamour and fabulou...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 337
THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part 1 - "Queer Stereotypes" Don't you hate it when your favorite disco is also an ancient Templar shrine and you die in a freak foam party accident and your soul is forced to walk the earth for the next 700 years? ME TOO! Pride Month is off to a very silly start with the adorable yet kinda problematic 2006 French comedy POLTERGAY . Boogie down with my very special guest TRAE DEAN ( "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" ) and me on this madcap tour through the Gay Afterlife. POL...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 336
With Friday, May 13th looming on the calendar, it's time for another FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR episode! This time we're celebrating the work of JOHN CARL BUECHLER ( "Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood" ) and his infamous 1986 cult classic TROLL . A banished troll king seeks to bring back his lost world of dark fairies by nefariously transforming the residents of a San Francisco apartment building into evil mystical creatures. Whimsical fantasy or antigay propaganda? YOU DECIDE! My special g...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 334
I'm in desperate need of a break, so while I'm gone I'm leaving you with the best babysitter I could find. Queer horror legend VINCENT PRICE . THE PRICE OF FEAR is a BBC old-time radio show which was first broadcast in 1973. It starred Uncle Vinnie as the Narrator and also an active participant in the ghoulish tales he gets mixed up in while traveling the world, making scary movies, and being fabulous. " The Waxwork" is based on the short story by A.M. BURRAGE story of the same name and centers ...
Apr 23, 2022•33 min
Old Hollywood had a name for movies like PICTURE MOMMY DEAD . Schlock. "A Schlock film is the term given to a film that represents a low-budget horror flick . With overly-sensational plots, lurid special effects, and perhaps a bit of immature, albeit comedic, gag style humor ." - BeverlyBoy.com Today, we might call it campy or cheesy or trashy, but whatever name you call it, it's a Big Gay Horror Good Time! PICTURE MOMMY DEAD is a schlocktacular potboiler of a thriller with all the classic Gothi...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 333
Prepare your funny bone for some otherworldly ticklin', because for Episode 332, I unearthed a hidden gem of a haunted house comedy. In THE SELLING , a too-nice-for-his-own-good real estate agent is tricked into buying a house that was once owned by a long-dead serial killer. If that wasn't bad enough, the house is also EXTREMELY haunted. Can Richard defeat the ghosts, sell the house and save the day? (And is anybody gonna eat those leftover brownies???) To counteract the spectral scares, I'm ad...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 332
Once upon a time...three handsome and available Queenz got together to talk about a movie. Come listen as we put the fairy in fairy tale. I'm joined this episode by TYLER JENSEN and ROMAN CHIMIENTI , the co-directors of SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET , to dig into STUART GORDON ' s bloody bedtime story, DOLLS . A ragtag group of lost travelers takes shelter from a storm by spending the night in a secluded mansion owned by a seemingly kindly toymaker, his wife and their army of bloodth...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 331
Our #WomenInHorrorMonth celebration continues with an in-depth look at the 1987 vampire Western hybrid NEAR DARK directed and co-written by future Oscar-winner KATHERYN BIGELOW ( The Hurt Locker , Zero Dark Thirty , Point Break , Blue Stee l). My very special guests are PAUL STEVENSON ( Who Will Survive? ) and KELLY HOGABOOM . ( Beauty, the Beast and the B's ) You can expect: -Neck chewin' -Pelt trackin' -Bar brawlin' -Chest oilin' -Trucker tweakin' -Lassooin ' -Transfusin' -Rootin' -Tootin' -an...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 330
Meet the Hoffheinze family. They're respectable...presentable....and dangerous as hell. You are aboiut to watch a century's worth of their family history through the eyes of the one witness who has witnessed their crimes....who knows their secrets....and has never said a word. The moosehead over their mantel. Febraury is #WomenInHorrorMonth www.WomenInHorrorMonth.com , so I'm presenting you with an anthology film of sorts that boasts four female directors and a female screenwriter. And to help t...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 329
Due to ongoing PC problems, I'm pushing the episode on STUART GORDON' s Grimm little bedtime story, the 1987 film DOLLS ...until next time. Don't feel bad for my special guests for that episode, TYLER JENSEN & ROMAN CHIMIANTE from "Scream, Queen!: My Nightmare on Elm Street". They're going to use that extra time to lurk on dark street corners and practice being butch. But the rest of us are going back in time to the year 1975 to revisit the glorious world of OLD TIME RADIO and the CBS MYSTER...
Jan 23, 2022•58 min
Get ready to blast off into a galaxy of gay camp and mortal terror as we go do the depths of space to battle the QUEEN OF BLOOD ! A group of astronauts on a rescue mission to Mars suddenly find themselves on the menu when the beautiful female alien they've rescued turns out to be a bloodsucking femme fatale. A solo mission to space isn't any fun. That's why I've packed today's flight roster full of beefcake. My special guests are the boys of MONSTER MAKEUP LLC , the crew that brought us DEATH DR...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 328
"For a short person, you have long sentences." Start your holiday season with our MILDLY INAPPROPRIATE HOLIDAY SPECIAL where we discuss a film that is at best tangentially related to either the holiday season or the usual format for the show. This year, we're diving into the 1980 murder mystery spoof THE PRIVATE EYES starring comedy legends TIM CONWAY ("The Carol Burnett Show". "Dorf on Golf" and DON KNOTTS ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Three's Company", "The Ghost & Mr. Chicken") In THE PRIVA...
Dec 18, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 327
Before SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT, there was another Psycho Santa out to ruin your Christmas. Directed by DAVID HESS, star of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, TO ALL A GOODNIGHT (1980) is the cautionary tale of a group of finishing school girls who decide to drug their housemother so that they can throw the Christmas party to end all Christmas parties. But before you can say, "What could possibly go wrong?", a killer in a Santa Claus crashes the party and puts an end to their holly jolly hootenanny. Oh, b...
Dec 04, 2021•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 326
With Thanksgiving almost upon us, it seems a good time to remind you that the old saying is true: "There's no place like home for the holidays." UNLESS perhaps your "home' has become somehow supernaturally sentient, fallen dangerously in love with you, and will kill anyone who tries to take you away from it. Don't go there. It sounds dangerous. Plus, I'm already taking you to a house JUST LIKE THAT right now! By the way, don't you let me (or it) hear you calling it haunted. This house ain't haun...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 325
While I'm in Palm Springs, please enjoy the full episode of our PATREON -exclusive podcast cast, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" - A "Friday the 13th: The Series" Retrospective. If you enjoyed what you heard, consider becoming a PATRON at www.patreon.com/screamqueenz . First aired on Patreon in September 2020, we're discussing perhaps one of the most disturbing episodes of the show ever: "FAITH HEALER" , Season 1, Episode 13. Fortunately, "Fath Healer" was directed by Canadian Body Horror legend DAVID ...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 324
Step right up, step right up! Climb aboard for the ride of your life...or possibly the end of your life. This Halloween, I'm inviting you to spend the night with me in TOBE HOOPER 's 1981 creepy carnival monster mashup, THE FUNHOUSE . When an evening at the carnival proves neither thrilling nor chilling enough, Amy and her friends get the bright idea to have an impromptu overnight smooch-n-grope party in the creepy funhouse. After accidentally witnessing a murder, the gang finds themselves being...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 323
Beyond the door of THE NIGHTMARE CLOSET waiting to make me confront my childhood terrors lies... BEYOND THE DOOR from 1974 (aka CHI SEI? ) In this utterly shameless ripoff of both THE EXORCIST and ROSEMARY'S BABY , Jessica's expectancy isn't going as expected, because her future bundle of joy has already been earmarked by Satan to be his emissary of evil on Earth. Prepare yourself for: projectile vomiting spinning heads highball eyeballs Pottymouth Patty flying flan depraved dolls nasal fluting ...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 322
Season Twelve kicks off with some holy terror as we discuss the last temptation of SAINT MAUD (2019) . Here to help me dodge the fire and brimstone and possibly provoke the wrath of God are my very special guests KASEY LOMAN , the creative mind behind EVILGOODS DESIGN and the FEMMES OF FRIGHT collection, and NICOLE DAVIS , co-host of MOVIE GO ROUND . In SAINT MAUD , a rather unstable nurse who has had a recent religious conversion is assigned a new patient and will go to dangerous lengths to sav...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 321
"I Do Not Care For Hunky Boys...Or do I???" July 26th marks eleven years since ScreamQueenz first hit the airwaves. Celebrate this dubious milestone and the end of this season with a sci-fi horror comedy love letter to the '80s & '90s that's like MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS had a baby with MY GIRL . And that baby smoked a lot of crack. Like, a LOT of crack! That movie is PG: PSYCHO GOREMAN . After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, Mimi, a young ...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 320
