Masterclass
It’s not every day that your podcast hits 200 episodes or gets a brand new logo, so it’s been a big week for Trace and me over at Horror Queers.
We’ve had an incredibly busy October on the pod, what with an extended conversation with Don Mancini about the last 30+ years of the Chucky franchise, a discussion about biphobia and Paul Verhoeven’s classic Erotic Thriller Basic Instinct, and our (now annual) check-in on David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy, Halloween Kills.
For our 200th episode, we wanted a special, perfect 5-star film, so we knew we had to go with Karyn Kusama‘s The Invitation (2015). In the film, grieving Will (Logan Marshall-Green) and his new girlfriend Kira (Emayatzy Corinealdi) attend a dinner in the Hollywood Hills at the behest of his ex, Eden (Tammy Blanchard) and her new boyfriend, David (Michiel Huisman).
But something’s off: there are two unusual guests Pruitt (John Carroll Lynch) and Sadie (Lindsay Burdge) and Eden in unnaturally happy, despite the death of her and Will’s son Ty (Aiden Lovekamp).
Is Will overreacting or is something more nefarious going on? Make it to the toast to find out!
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Episode 200 – The Invitation (2015)
We’re celebrating episode 200 with a five star film: Karyn Kusama’s masterful The Invitation (2015).
Every aspect of this film is sheer perfection (direction, editing, score, lighting, screenplay and acting). We’re obsessed with the layered and nuanced depiction of grief, Will as an unreliable protagonist, terrifying character actor John Carroll Lynch and the glorious house porn.
Plus: speculation about the after life, why Kira wins Best Girlfriend, good queer representation, as well as blow and blowjobs. Oh, and Trace ruins the film with a Claire tidbit.
It’s a masterclass!
Cross out The Invitation!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re celebrating Halloween with a bunch of boob jokes and the horror hostess with the most: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)!
P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for more than 207 hours of additional content! This month, we’ve got episodes on the film adaptation of My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Disney’s legacy sequel Hocus Pocus 2, Hulu’s Hellraiser reboot, the final(?) entry in David Gordon Green’s Halloween series Halloween Ends, and an audio commentary on Gore Verbinski’s The Ring, just in time for its 20th anniversary!
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