Homophilia I Believe In Unibrows with Kyle Turner
Oct 13, 2023
The author of The Queer Film Guide, Kyle Turner, joins the podcast to discuss topics such as queer horror, the original Scream films, stand-up comedy in movies, the meaning of the Saw series, and their love for the movie To Wong Foo. They also touch on recent releases, the new RHONY, and their thoughts on Milf Manor and Mary Cosby.
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Queer Horror Reframes Bodily Pleasure And Fear
- Kyle Turner argues queer horror reframes bodily discomfort as both frightening and pleasurable to examine queer sex and spectatorship.
- He sees horror's bodily focus as a way to explore accidents, pain, and transformed pleasure in queer experiences.
Queer Themes Live In Classic And Modern Horror
- Turner lists classic queer-coded horrors like Frankenstein, Freddy's Revenge, and The Fly as foundational queer allegories.
- He highlights Cruising and Knife+Heart for their focus on surveillance, policing, and the spectacle of queer sex and death.
Activists Shaped Cruising's Eerie Sound
- Turner recounts how activists disrupted Cruising's filming and how ADR created a disembodied killer voice in the finished film.
- He argues that distance between voice and actor added an eerie quality to Cruising's killer.