Rise of the Gay Cinephiles

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into the second half of 2000, and we're discussing Ed Bye's British equivalent to Beavis and Butt-Head, Kevin & Perry Go Large; Peyton Reed'...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're out of the 90s and delving into the first half of 2000, and we're discussing James Wong's supernatural slasher, Final Destination; Keenen Ivory Wayans'...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into the second half of our 1999 two parter, and we're discussing Alexander Payne's phenomenal political dramedy, Election; Sofia Coppola's dark...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into the first half of 1999, a year that is considered by some to be the greatest movie year of all time, and we're discussing Brian Robbins' aw...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into the second half of 1998 where we're discussing Joe Dante's cult action comedy, Small Soldiers; Gary Ross' inventive dramedy, Pleasantville;...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into the first half of 1998 for a very gay episode where we're discussing Don Roos' dark comedy, The Opposite of Sex; John McNaughton's erotic t...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into 1997 and discussing David Mirkin's comedy masterpiece, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion; the best and final entry of Gregg Araki's ph...

This week on Rise of the Gay Cinephiles, it's our Academy Awards 2026 special bonus episode, and we're discussing Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams. You can expect discussions on what won, what we think should've won and films that we think should have been nominated as well as discussions abou...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, we're delving into 1996 and discussing Andrew Fleming's camp goth cult film, The Craft; Hettie Macdonald's queer romantic comedy, Beautiful Thing; Takeshi Kit...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's millennial teen cinema season, Scream As If You Know 10 Things I Hate About Band Camp (or How Millennial Teen Movies Taught Me Everything I Know About Sex, Friendship and the American Dream)! This week, to kick off this new season, we're delving into 1995 and discussing Amy Heckerling's cult classic, Clueless; Larry Clark's endurance test, Kids; John N. Smith...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's end of the year episode! For this extra special bonus episode, we'll be discussing both of our top 20 films of the year which includes Sinners, Bugonia, Weapons, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Die My Love, and much more! You can find us on Instagram and Threads over at @gaycinephilesrise and on Twitter over at @gaycinesrise. If you would like to sup...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, it's the season finale and we're discussing Jean-Claude Lord's underrated and creepy slasher film, Visiting Hours; Matt Cimber's dark and artsy character study, The Witch Who Came from the Sea; Jess Franco's boring yet occasionally camp Women Behind Bars; and Lucio Fulci's cul...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Dario Argento's Giallo masterpiece, Tenebrae; Dennis Donnelly's dull and boring slasher film, The Toolbox Murders; Charles McCrann's very uneventful Toxic Zombies; and Don Gronquist's camp and very dated Unhinged. You can find us on Instagram and Threads over...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing one of the greatest films ever made, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession; Sergio Martino's camp Italian cannibal adventure film, Slave of the Cannibal God; J.S. Cardone's inventive slasher film, The Slayer; Michael Findlay's controversial yet boring Snuff; and what...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week is a "night" special episode and we're discussing René Cardona's hilarious trashterpiece, Night of the Bloody Apes; James C. Wasson's Bigfoot slasher film, Night of the Demon; Miguel Iglesias Bonns' Daninsky werewolf sequel, Night of the Howling Beast; Bruno Mattei's Dawn of th...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Ovidio G. Assonitis' birthday based slasher, Madhouse; Umberto Lenzi's ridiculously boring, Man from Deep River; Jack Weis' camp Blood Feast rip-off, Mardi Gras Massacre; and Romano Scavolini's gritty, sleazy and creepy slasher film, Nightmares in a Damaged Br...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Giulio Berruti's high camp nunsploitation giallo, Killer Nun; Wes Craven's horror classic, The Last House on the Left; Aldo Lado's surprisingly great Last House rip-off, Late Night Trains; Jorge Grau's cult zombie film, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue; an...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Gregory Goodell's partially camp, partially bland Human Experiments; Murray Markowitz's bizarre tonal rollercoaster, I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses; Meir Zarchi's infamous I Spit on Your Grave; Dario Argento's phenomenal Suspiria sequel, Inferno; and Nico Mastora...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Cesare Canevari's Nazisploitation trash, The Gestapo's Last Orgy; Andy Milligan's super gay and super fun The Ghastly Ones; Lucio Fucli's Gates of Hell Trilogy finale, The House by the Cemetery; James Kenelm Clarke's camp erotic thriller, The House on Straw Hi...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing John Alan Schwartz's abysmal shock and snoozefest, Faces of Death; Robert A. Endelson's progressive Blaxploitation flick, Fight for Your Life; Paul Morrissey's high camp Flesh for Frankenstein; Frank Roach's baffling and boring zombie film, Frozen Scream; and...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow's Christmas slasher, The Dorm That Dripped Blood; Abel Ferrara's punk rock b-movie classic, The Driller Killer; Tobe Hooper's gritty and sleazy Eaten Alive; Sam Raimi's game changing masterpiece, The Evil Dead; and Eric West...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week is a "don't" special episode and we're discussing Joseph Ellison's creepy character study, Don't Go in the House; James Bryan's goofy slasher b-movie, Don't Go in the Woods... Alone!; Lawrence Foldes' bottom of the barrel trash cannibal film, Don't Go Near the Park; and S.F. Br...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week is a cannibal special episode and we're discussing Antonio Margheriti's wild Taxi Driver rip-off, Cannibal Apocalypse; Umberto Lenzi's cult classic, Cannibal Ferox; Ruggero Deodato's controversial game changer, Cannibal Holocaust; Eloy de la Iglesia's queer character study with...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing Tony Maylam's slasher classic, The Burning; William Asher's progressive queer slasher, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker; Luigi Cozzi's Alien rip-off, Contamination; Gary Sherman's hidden 80s gem, Dead & Buried; Peter Maris' painfully boring Delirium; and th...

Welcome to Rise of the Gay Cinephile's alphabetical journey through all 72 films on the Video Nasties DPP List! This week, we're discussing the first of the Nazisploitation nasties with Luigi Batzella's The Beast in Heat, Lucio Fulci's masterpiece, The Beyond, Herschell Gordon Lewis' camp splatter classic, Blood Feast, Jess Franco's weird slasher film, Bloody Moon, and Ulli Lommel's artsy Hallowee...