You will never feel so touched in your soul boy a scene of Vince Vaughn kissing a teenage boy. We promise.
Show Notes
Fear Level: Spoopy (not scary)
Trigger Warnings: Gore, brutal assault, mild racism, homophobic slurs (all by bad people), Vince Vaughn, body swapping.
Body swapping movies always feel a bit squiggy going in, especially when you look at them through the lens of trans and non-binary folks. That's why we had two guests this week as we all gushed over the amazing way this body swapping slasher starring a man not known for his ability to be funny and mindful of the LGBTQIA+ community. It's a modern day miracle, but this movie actually does a really amazing job of handling trans issues and even goes out of its way to get the pronouns right!
- The Basics
- A little bit about the movie before we start
- Director: Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Paranormal Activity -Marked ones, Disturbia, Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse) outspoken gay filmmaker
- Writers: Michael Kennedy, Christopher Landon
- Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O'Connor, Mischa Osherovich
- What’s it about?
- After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
Topics of Discussion:
- Friends from Mean Girls, high school from Scream
- Local teen murder app
- Homecoming: do people care?
- Why wouldn't you have the homecoming game on a Friday?
- Things a teen girl likes or things a 30 something gay man likes?
- The sound of Vince Vaughn's penis
- Woodshop? In this economy?
- Az-teck-i-an
- ACAB (All Charlene's are bad)
- An explanation of how to change the time on your apple devices
- Who the fuck is Aaron Rogers?
Recommendations:
- Happy Death Day
- Scream and it's sequels
- Heathers
- Cursed
- Red Eye
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare
- Crosswinds (comic)
- Freaky Friday
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A podcast that holds horror to standards horror never agreed to. Hosts Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, Emily Martin and guests watch, read, listen to, and check out movies, tv shows, comics, books, art and anything else from the horror genre and discuss it through a progressive lens. We'll talk feminism in horror, LGBTQ+ issues and representation in horror, racial and social justice in horror, disability and mental health/illness in horror, and the work of female and POC directors, writers, and creators in horror.
We're the podcast horror never agreed to take part in.