ScreamQueenz Podiverse

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 ma...

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 gu...

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 buil...

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 fabu...

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 H...

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...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 go...

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 o...

"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...

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?"...

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 THA...

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" ,...

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 p...

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...

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...

"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 ....

"My God...They're All Mad." For the first time in a long time, the door of THE NIGHTMARE CLOSET is about to slowly swing open once again and unleash another movie that completely traumatized me when I saw it as a child. This time, the evil let loose upon the world is BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN (1971). The tiny town of Hillsboro finds itself under attack by mysterious unknown forces. Unable to leave, ent...

Our PRIDE MONTH celebration continues with a look at the truly unusual, blood-streaked 1981 psychological thriller BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER aka NIGHT WARNING . Billy, an orphaned teenager, finds himself being dominated by his increasingly unhinged Aunt Sheryl who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs. Despite its deceptively simple plot, BBNM is a remarkably layered film featur...

"Everything's a movie to me..." Kick off your Pride Month festivities with this deep dive into the movie that was meta before meta was cool, the moviehouse movie-within-a-movie massacre motion picture POPCORN from 1991. Tucked inside all the Grand Guignol fun, we'll be putting a special focus on the closeted life and tragic death of the film's star, TOM VILLARD. Joining me are world-famous actor a...

"Will you love me...til the day you die?" Those crazy shopkeepers from My Very Curious Curio Shop are taking over this episode of ScreamQueenz to bring you this full episode of "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" , our Patreon Exclusive Podcast dedicated to FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES . Originally airing in May 2020, MAYA MURPHY and TRAE DEAN are on hand to help me tackle one of the series' most infamous and...

"This entire murder has been... catered !" You are cordially invited to spend the weekend with the world's greatest detectives in a spooky old mansion! Enjoy an invisible dinner, a fiendish murder, and the chance to win a million dollars if you can solve this devious crime! Get ready to laugh your *** off, because our topic this time is NEIL SIMON 's classic murder mystery spoof MURDER BY DEATH fr...

"He's family..." Our salute to CANADIAN HORROR movies continues with a chat about the deeply unsettling (and tragically out-of-print at this time) psychosexual thriller, PIN from 1988. A young man develops an unhealthy attachment to Pin, his father's medical anatomy doll and reigns terror upon anyone who threatens his fractured reality. To help me navigate this dark and twisted path, I am delighte...