Mistress Doom.
After hanging with Jesse Hooker’s crew and analyzing the AIDS allegory in Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire western Near Dark, we traveled all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In. Now we’re changing up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick: Robert Zemeckis‘ 1988 masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Yes, we’re aware that qualifying the film as “horror” is a stretch, but it falls under the Return to Oz category of “non-horror films that terrified an entire generation of children” umbrella, so cut us some slack! Oh, and do you disagree with our queer reading of Judge Doom? That’s fine, but we ask that you listen to the conversation before you comment (it’s at the 01:47:00 mark)!
In the film, down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner), the sultry wife of Maroon’s biggest star, Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer). But when Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye), Jessica’s alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) vows to catch and destroy Roger.
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Episode 174: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
We’re not bad, we’re just drawn that way! And we’re headed to Toontown to discuss Robert Zemeckis’ looney tune-y cinematic masterpiece (and every child’s nightmare fuel) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)!
Join us as we worship at the altar of Jessica Rabbit before applying a queer reading to Judge Doom (Don’t be a sourpuss! He’s a quintessential self-hating queer figure that might fall into the queer killer trope).
Plus: our lengthiest production history yet, discussing the film’s incredibly dark source material, sexy Patty Cake, and oh my God it’s DIIIIIIIIIIIIIP! All this for a freeway? You bet! And we’re gonna handle it JUST. LIKE. THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!
Cross out Who Framed Roger Rabbit!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re tackling our first Mexican film in Amat Escalante’s tentacle porn-y 2016 film The Untamed (which is currently streaming on Shudder)!
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