ScreamQueenz Podiverse

"It can't be happening again..." It's CANADIAN HORROR MONTH at ScreamQueenz, and we're starting the festivities by taking a look at their truly iconic slasher classic MY BLOODY VALENTINE from 1981. Special Guests: BRYAN NORTON : Director - "Jack Attack", Author - "FOR GOD'S SAKE, GET OUT!": The Amityville Horror at the Movies TARA GARNER : Actual Canadian, Resident Historian MY BLOODY VALENTINE di...

"Get Ready for the Violence of the Lambs..." It is a fact that there are more sheep in New Zealand. This tidbit of truth makes the New Zealand-based horror-comedy BLACK SHEEP all the more delicious! Thanks to brilliant gooey, over-the-top gore and monster effects, the seemingly stupid concept of "killer sheep" becomes genuinely terrifying. Add a dryly hilarious script to balance out the bloodshed,...

"Why does everything have to be so unnecessarily gross?!?" For our Salute to Irish Horror , we'll be discussing the utterly charming supernatural comedy, EXTRA ORDINARY . Rose, a mild-mannered driving instructor with an ability to talk to the dead, must exorcise seven ghosts in order to save a young girl from being sacrificed by a one-hit-wonder pop star who has turned to Satanism to restore his f...

Our celebration of WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH continues with a discussion of the powerful and controversial film SWALLOW . I am delighted to be joined by two very special guests: gender-bending queer horror filmmaker ALAN ROWE KELLY ( Tales of Poe , The Blood Shed ) and cohost of the MOVIE GO ROUND podcast NICOLE DAVIS . **This episode contains frank discussions of sexual assault, domestic abuse and ea...

If you've ever wondered what would happen when I covered a movie that truly terrified me...you're about to find out. Because LAST GIRL STANDING is a movie that shakes me to my core. Twice before I've tried to talk about this film on the show. Twice before I've had to scrap the entire project because just scratching the surface turns me into a blubbering, frightened mess. Turns out what I needed wa...

This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Steven Stein Grainger. The previously announced episode on DEATH DROP GORGEOUS had to be unavoidably delayed in order to properly grieve the loss of a cherished friend. Instead, you're getting a previously recorded episode of THE FINAL REEL , which is one of the two podcasts that I produce exclusively for my Patreon Super Screamerz. In Pre-COVID days,...

Happy holidays, my Beautiful Screamerz! I let YOU pick the movie for this LISTENER TAKEOVER episode, and you chose the Scottish Christmas zombie musical ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE (2017). On hand to join in the toe-tappin' gut-munchin' Yuletide merriment are everyone's favorite Ska-lovin' boob aficionados, ALLISON NOWACKI and BRYAN POLK! Plus, I read your reviews, and we finally answer the age-old qu...

(This episode initially posted missing about 30 minutes of the show. This is the complete version. My apologies for any confusion.) Take a journey back in time with us to a world of mythological monsters, petulant gods, men in miniskirts and marauding MAGGIE SMITH s. I'm finishing off our pre-holiday look at Horror-Adjacent Comfort Films with a chat on 1981's CLASH OF THE TITANS directed by DESMON...

In ABBOTT & COSTELLO' s charmingly SPOOKTACULAR comedy THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES , two ghosts ( LOU COSTELLO & MARJORIE REYNOLDS) falsely accused of being traitors during the Revolutionary War must find a lost letter from George Washington that will prove their innocence and break their curse...all while scaring the pants of their manor home's current residents! Despite sharing almost no sce...

You survived Election Day. But can you survive another FRIDAY THE 13th SPECTACULAR!! Celebrate the unluckiest day of the year with a peak behind The Paywall with another full episode of our Patreon-exclusive FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES retrospective podcast, "DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" In "The Poison Pen", Ryan and Micki must go undercover as monks to infiltrate a monastery in order to retrieve a cur...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, MY BEAUTIFUL SCREAMERZ! John Carpenter Month continues with a look at his 1980 supernatural revenge flick, THE FOG starring ADRIENNE BARBEAU , JAMIE LEIGH CURTIS , TOM ATKINS , JANET LEIGH and HAL HOLBROOK . The residents of Antonio Bay are in for quite a shock when their town's Centennial celebration is invaded by a hoard of undead sailors hellbent on revenge. My shipmates during...

October is JOHN CARPENTER MONTH here on ScreamQueenz, and we begin with a look at one of his lesser-known films: the taut made-for-television psychological thriller SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! starring LAUREN HUTTON , ADRIENNE BARBEAU and DAVID BIRNEY . Leigh Michaels is a TV director who moves into a high rise apartment building in Los Angeles when she begins to receive mysterious phone calls from a p...

In celebration of the 11th Season of SCREAMQUEENZ: The Podcast where Horror Gets Gay , everything old is new again... I'm resurrecting THE CRAPSHOOT ; the segment of the show where I dive headfirst into that vast sea of Direct-To-Video horror movie releases in search of that elusive Diamond in the ****Pile! And to add to the craziness, I'm making it a DOUBLE CRAPSHOOT ! First up is 1BR (2020) writ...

Here's a Summer Bonus Episode that will finally answer the question: "Is the GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR a ghost?......Or is it Allison trying to spy some exposed CM Punk Junk?" Trick question: She's BOTH! In GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR , a man attempts to renovate a former brothel and turn it into a new home for his family, but discovers some of the former occupants have other plans. Directed by TRAVIS S...

(05:00) (07:30) <p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>MADISON PENROSE ALWAYS GETS WHAT SHE WANTS.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>TONIGHT, SHE'LL GET WHAT SHE DESERVES.</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center">Beat the summer heat with this ScreamQueenz bonus never-before-aired episode recorde...

Once upon a time, two fierce young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about the legend of Mark Patton. They were never heard from again... In this fourth installment of my casual chats with out gay horror filmmakers, I'm honored to have with me TYLER JENSEN and ROMAN CHIMIENTI , the co-directors of the smash hit documentary SCREAM QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. In addition to discussing...

Meet the creators of the upcoming queer drag-themed slasher epic  DEATH DROP GORGEOUS ! CHRISTOPHER DALPE, BRANDON PERRAS-SANCHEZ & MICHAEL AHERN Get all the inside dish on how a group of friends managed to take their dream of making a gay horror film from idle chat all the way to glorious gore-streaked reality… and still remain friends ! Check out the brand new trailer recut by TYLER JEN...

This Pride Month, Meet The Out LGBT Filmmakers of Independent Horror. ALAN ROWE KELLY Sculpture, Gallery of Fear, The Blood Shed, Tales of Poe Join me for a casual conversation with Actor/Director/Producer ALAN ROWE KELLY as we discuss his transition from the world of fashion and makeup into horror, gender ambiguity. celebrity run-ins, and primal fears when you're living queer. You're invited to a...

This Pride Month, Meet The Out LGBT Filmmakers of Independent Horror. BART MASTRONARDI Vindication, Tales of Poe Before introducing you to ALAN ROWE KELLY , the next guest in this Pride Month series, I thought a refresher course on Bart would be helpful since these two work so frequently together. During our insightful chat which first aired in December of 2018, we discuss some of the behind-the-s...

“It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.” -Guillermo Del Toro To kick off Pride Month, I've chosen to discuss GUILLERMO DEL TORO's Oscar-winning fantasy film, THE SHAPE OF WATER. On the surface, the story appears to be simply a sci fi Beauty and the Beast/Creature From the Black Lagoon mashup. Look closer, and you'll see a story of people who are...

In honor of VINCENT PRICE's birthday this week, enjoy this terrifying tale from the Golden Age of Radio. Set in the late VIctorian era, "A Fugue in C-Minor" is a tale of mounting anxiety, doubt and fear about a new bride, voiced by IDA LUPINO recently featured in our WOMEN IN HORROR episode, begins to suspect her husband (VINCENT PRICE)may have murdered his previous wife. But who's gaslighting who...

A Heartwarmingly wholesome tale of a boy and his.... zombie ?? FIDO , directed by ANDREW CURRIE , takes to a picture perfect pop art white picket fence and apple pie post-zombie apocalypse 1950's style world where the undead serve as harmless domestic servants, nannies and Mother's Little Helpers. When little Timmy's family adopt Fido to be their house ghoul, hearty laughs and wholesome good times...

 – My 50th Birthday Celebration continues as THE CRAPSHOOT returns! My never-ending quest to find a diamond in the shit pile of VOD horror movie releases led me to a little film called  SHOCK VALUE , a blackly comic yet chilling gem of a tale about dangerous ambition and deadly hubris set against the backdrop of L.A’s indie horror filmmaking scene. After witnessing a brutal dou...

When two innocent country-folk get mistaken for serial killers by a bunch of vacationing college kids, mayhem and self-mutilation ensue in the charming horror-comedy TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL . Boob-and Ska fanatics ALLISON NOWACKI and BRYAN J. POLK are on hand to kick off my insanely self-indulgent 50th birthday month celebration. TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL was directed by ELI CRAIG and stars ALAN...

Something queer is afoot at Jim & Linda's house...and it has nothing to do with their Oujia board! Sometimes you revisit an old favorite you haven't seen in a long time, and discover a whole new movie. This is one of those time. Helping me navigate these strange new uncharted waters are special guests MATT KNIFE and CUBBY HALL ! WITCHBOARD was directed by KEVIN TENNEY and stars TAWNY KITAEN ,...