Queer Horror High

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at Higgins Haven as they swim through the murky lake of Steve Miner's 1982 slasher sequel, Friday the 13th Part III for this very special PRIDE-ay the 13th episode for Chris' birthday! The (g)hosts dig deep into some trauma-inducing topics, including the 3D of it all, Chuck and Chili, napping in the woods, the pansexual biker gang, pranking people, Chr...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at the Hårga commune in rural Sweden as they dance around the maypole of Ari Aster's 2019 folk Horror film, Midsommar! The (g)hosts burn through some heated topics, including European racism, the accurate depiction of shrooms, Christian being manipulative, Pubegate, Dani's volcanic silhouette, the nationalism of it all, demystifying suicide*, and much...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in the Hollywood Hills as they activate a HIGHer version of themselves while trying Coralie Fargeat's 2024 Oscar-winning Body Horror masterpiece, The Substance for 4/20! They definitely disrespect the balance examining a wide range of topics more stoned than ever, including male Bratz dolls, beauty standards, Elisabeth's yellow coat, Nickey being Saran...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey as far away from Lestat as possible while Nickey leads a kiki celebrating Black Horror and Black culture in lieu of just discussing the 2002 film, Queen of the Damned for their next episode during Black History Month! The (g)hosts freestyle it though a variety of topics, including The Grammys and The Super Bowl, how Queen of the Damned exploits Aaliyah, RuPaul...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in Sue Ann's suburban Ohio basement as they party with Tate Taylor's 2019 camp fest, Ma for their second episode for Black History Month! The (g)hosts tap (at the gas station) for some aMAzing topics, including Ma's Saleisha wig, high school kick-it spots, the rhinestoned denim hat, Erica being a chill mom, The MAdea Cinematic Universe, Funkytown,...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey as they funk it up in 1972 Los Angeles while covering William Crain's seminal Blaxploitation Horror classic, Blacula, to kick off Black History Month! The (g)hosts sink their teeth into many (blood) types of topics, including Fergie, Mamuwalde's tenderness, the Hues Corporation, Nancy's business deal, zombie vampires, Quentin Tarantino's pillaging of Blaxploitatio...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey down a rabbit hole of diversity as they let their imaginations run wild through the 1951 Disney animated version of Lewis Carroll's trippy children's classic, Alice in Wonderland! The (g)hosts dream up some nonsensical tea-pics of conversation, including the cringe culture surrounding the movie, a seafood boil gone wrong (or right), being kind but not friendly...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at the backlot of Sunrise Studios as they investigate the murder of the eternally slut-shamed Maureen Prescott while covering the used-to-be final film in Wes Craven's used-to-be Scream trilogy, Scream 3 for their belated 3 year anniversary/Halloween episode! The (g)hosts discover (with help from Carrie Fisher) some salacious topics, including white male O...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in Gotham City as they ride in their ducky boat through Tim Burton’s ‘90s superhero movie sequel, Batman Returns! The (g)hosts turn their patent leather dusters into catsuits and pussyfoot around some birdbrained topics, including Diddy, corn dog bits, Arctic World, pussy eating pussy, Max Shreck’s Margaret Thatcher blowback, The Penguin’s boundary issues, baby tr...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in Crescent Cove as they drive their ice cream truck through The Chiodo Brothers' 1988 campy Horror cult classic, Killer Klowns from Outer Space! The (g)hosts clown around at the Big Top Burger while chortling over some (pop)corny topics, including Mooney's little d*ck energy, Edna Turnblad, Nickelodeon Studios, comically elaborate shadow puppets, The Clown Pride...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at Jones Beach State Park (ew) as they avoid hypodermic needles flying through James Wong's (NOT James Wan's) 2000 franchise-starting film, Final Destination! The (g)hosts get hung up on a range of explosive topics, such as Ali Larter's dishwater hair, Simple Jack, babies on planes, the amount of sh*tting in this movie, the whitewashing of premonitions, Clear bein...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at this dingy Texas farmhouse as they f*ck around with Ti West's 2022 homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, X! The (g)hosts touch on a fist full of arousing topics, including Bobby Lynne: Good Time Gal, Wendy's sun rooms, Deborah Logan, geriatric pâté, Pearl sounding exactly like Anna Nicole Smith, Pearl's skittering (and skidaddling!), and much m...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at the Tanz Academy in Freiburg, Germany as they queerify Dario Argento's 1977 witchy Horror classic, Suspiria for Pride Month(s) (San Diego's Pride is in July)! The (g)hosts luxuriate in the visual ecstasy as they dance around some colorful topics including Suzy's lavender scarf, Pavlos the dawg, Gargoyles, The Trunchbull, late 2000s Prohibition e...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at some unfurnished condo in the desert as they celebrate Pride Month with Deborah Brock's 1987 queer coded silly slasher sequel, Slumber Party Massacre II! They (guitar) drill through some buzzing topics, including 1950s nostalgia, Jordan "McKnight" & Joey McIntyre, Hospice Girls, Courtney's metal AF dreams, gay tar and feathering, Sheil...

Welcome (g)hosts Chris & Nickey to New Salem, Who Cares as they tolerate the 2007 "return" of cultural icon, Lindsay Lohan, I Know Who Killed Me! The (g)hosts investigate some obnoxiously blue topics, including FBI agent Garcelle Beauvais, the p*ssy cigarette, G.G.C. (giant genitals cat), Dakota's charging leg, creepy doll collectors, the gorgeous stained glass coffin and more! F...

Happy 4/20 and welcome back (g)hosts Chris & Nickey for another season of Queer Horror High! They're kicking off season 3 with a movie that's aged as amazingly as it has horribly, Keenen Ivory Wayans' genre defining Horror spoof, Scary Movie! The (g)hosts get high as all motherf*ckng hell and blaze through some 2000s-y topics, including Jenny McCarthyism, the dangers of road head,...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey as they get high as all motherf*cking hell for their final episode of 2023 and their final episode of season 2 (we said ::wink wink:: in the last one)! It's also their 50th episode, and it's Chrimuh time, so they answer a bunch of letters from the class about some festive topics, including Christmas traditions they wish would just die, ways to celebrat...

Already missing Halloween? Well, come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at Hull House as they celebrate the end of spooky season with Kevin Tenney's 1988 Halloween Horror classic, Night of the Demons for their belated Halloween, season 2 finale (wink wink) episode! They hover like Angela around some pre-Hot Topics, including Dasani water, good ole Sal, Alice in Wonderbland, the haunted praying...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey on this glorious October Friday the 13th in this ugly, completely see-through glass mansion as they search the maze of Steve Beck's 2001 Horror remake, Thir13en Ghosts! They put on their ghost glasses to look closer at some spooky topics, including Leelee Sobieski, the house of "borrowed culture," more aggressive, buff O.J. Simpson, the crispy as...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey on the Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate Robin Hardy's 1973 folk Horror classic, The Wicker Man (skip ahead to 22:07 to get right to us talking about the movie)! The (g)hosts act a fool as they skip to their Lou around some burning topics, such as cop confidence, the Willow "freak" song, pussy-facing a tombstone, the seed of Shrek, gai...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in the basement of The Alamo as they yassify Tim Burton's quirky 1985 debut feature, Pee Wee's Big Adventure! The (g)hosts ride their $26,000 bikes (or they don't, because Chris still can't ride a bike) through a slew of vaguely queer topics, including toe-headed sh*t-c*nts, Pee Wee's big enby energy, the red (scare) symbolism, Tina the f*c...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in Berlin at The Metropol theater as they ooze into Lamberto Bava's vivid and fun 1985 cult classic, Demons! The (g)hosts crash their way through (the roof in a helicopter) a series of colorful topics including Christmas elf chic, Liz the Seeing Eye b*tch, Garetta Garetta's chaotic energy, Carmen's dildo tongue, getting a new set of characters for...

Join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in Bakersfield, California as they suck on a pipe to save their lives while investigating Tarsem Singh's 2000 J.Lo-starring jaunt, The Cell! They hook themselves into a slew of traumatic topics, including Carl looking like Annie Wilkes' son, getting high and watching Fantastic Planet, Gabby Petito, Detective Gordon Ramsey, J.Lo's whispery, breathy voice...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey at the Mor Furniture for Less (which is not Swedish or German, but San Diegan!) as they have an existential crisis while covering Skip Schoolnik's 1988 zirconia in the rough, Hide and Go Shriek for Gay Shame Month! The (g)hosts spread 'em large and tee hee their way through a bevy of topics including lazy ass quick drag, the cool girls vs. the shlumpy...

Come join (g)hosts Chris & Nickey in either Heaven or Hell as they jingle the chains of Clive Barker's 1987 queer Horror cult classic, Hellraiser! They absolutely raise some hell (maybe too much) while needling around some puzzling topics, including thrusscissoring, shoooooooulder paaads, straight goggles, Julia's Annie Lennox/David Bowie androgynous femme realness, kink shaming, Frank...