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LGBT+ Themes Episodes

Oct. 10, 2025

"DAMN YOU, UNCLE LEWIS!" - Hello Mary Lou Prom Night 2 - The FRIDAY T…

"DAMN YOU UNCLE LEWIS" will be taking a hiatus from our usual coverage of FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES episodes until the show launches publicly this fall. Until then, we've put together a series of FRIDAY THE 13TH THE SERIES S...

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Aug. 1, 2025

"Are the straights okay? - ARNOLD (1973)

Watch ARNOLD for free on Youtube or buy the gorgeous new Blu-Ray from Vinegar Syndrome . Say goodbye to ScreamQueenz with ARNOLD, a delightfully bizarre but tragically forgotten horror comedy of 1973. In the first five minute...

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June 27, 2025

"Sex & Death & Girls & Cars & Gods" - TITANE (2021)

This episode, we're taking on a real brain-bender: the French film "Titane"'; a whirlwind of sex, death, cars, and a whole heap of existential questions. The movie is a tough cookie, but MAYA MURPHY and I here to break it dow...

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Feb. 27, 2025

Val Lewton's Queer-Coded Film Noir Masterpiece - CAT PEOPLE (1942)

"You can fool everybody, but landy deary me, you can't fool a cat!" Irena, a lonely young Serbian immigrant, believes she is descended from a tribe of shape-shifting witches and fears that any physical intimacy will change he...

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Nov. 29, 2024

*REPOST- Editing Errors Fixed* - UNCLE PECKERHEAD (2020)

***This episode of ScreamQueenz was first released on 11/29/2024 with an excessive amount of editing errors making the show unlistenable. The errors have been fixed. My apologies for the sloppiness.*** Punk rock will never d...

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May 17, 2024

"Welcome to the House of VERY Dangerous Women" - THEY WAIT IN THE DAR…

If you enjoyed this episode, say THANK YOU and SUPPORT THE SHOW with a one-time donation at bit.ly/sqthankyou . ***** In THEY WAIT IN THE DARK , Amy and her son Adrian seek refuge in an old abandoned farmhouse to escape her d...

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March 8, 2024

*Repost* - We Always Hurt the Ones We Love - WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE …

If you enjoyed this episode, say THANK YOU and SUPPORT THE SHOW with a one-time donation at bit.ly/sqthankyou What starts as an idyllic trip to the Canadian wilderness for two women celebrating their first wedding anniversary...

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Feb. 5, 2024

Sex, Death and Speedos: Welcome to THE ESTATE (2020)

If you enjoyed this episode, say THANK YOU and SUPPORT THE SHOW with a one-time donation at bit.ly/sqthankyou ***** You know how I love a movie full of rich obnoxious jerks who are all secretly trying to murder each other so ...

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Jan. 11, 2024

FLASHBACK to Episode #86: EVIL UNDER THE SUN (1982) -repost

As proof that ScreamQueenz has not podfaded, please accept the Flashback to one of the most popular and beloved of our classic episodes: that time TRAE DEAN and DOUG SHAPIRO dropped by to discuss the gayest Agatha Christie m...

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Dec. 8, 2023

Love, Lies and Sacrifice - ATTACHMENT (2022)

ATTACHMENT is an extraordinary film in which clashing Danish, British and Jewish Haredi cultures combine to tell a love story most queer: A story of Mothers and Daughters, of Daughters and Lovers, and of the Ancient Evil that...

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Oct. 13, 2023

Sororities, Secrets & Telekinesis: The Deadly Sisterhood of THE INITI…

Get ready for a far-out flight to the grooviest decade ever when IT CAME FROM THE 70's takes over ScreamQueenz Studios to talk about everyone's favorite shameless CARRIE ripoff: the 1978 made-for-tv exercise in coded lesbiani...

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Sept. 29, 2023

"Boys like that...God don't love 'em" - CHILDREN OF SIN (2022)

Last time, you escaped from Camp Whistler. But no one ever leaves Abraham House. Our exploration into the horrific world of conversion therapy and queer conversion camps continues with a discussion of CHILDREN OF SIN written ...

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Sept. 15, 2023

THEY/THEM (2022)

"I'd understand it a lot more if there were a lot more queer bashing and bible-thumping..." On the surface, the movie Blumhouse's THEY/THEM had everything going for it: A slasher film with a novel queer conversion camp settin...

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June 27, 2023

The Horrific Beauty of Nicholas Verso's BOYS IN THE TREES (2016)

Come along with me and my special guest, Pastor Ben Fitzgerald-Fye , as we venture into the eerie, mystical and very queer world of the 2016 Australian film, Boys in the Trees . This unique coming-of-age tale set on Halloween...

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Feb. 15, 2023

"It's the humane thing to do..." SISSY: Part 2 - This Time With SPOI…

Last episode, we took you to the brink of utter insanity with our discussion of SISSY . But now we're back. We're gonna finish what we started. With SPOILERS this time! My extra special guests for the #WomenInHorrorMonth sele...

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Feb. 10, 2023

"I am doing my best. We all are..." - SISSY (2022) - Part 1

On the surface, SISSY is your standard bully/revenge slasher. Underneath, there's soooo much more. In fact, there's so much I have to split this episode on it into two parts! My extra special guests for the #WomenInHorrorMont...

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Jan. 27, 2023

"Once he tastes blood, he'll never let go..." - THE NEW KIDS - (1985)

The movie discussed in this episode contains scenes of threats & acts of sexual violence. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the NATIONAL SEXUAL ASSULT HOTLINE at 1-800-656-HOPE(4673) or visit RAINN.org . Our ...

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Nov. 17, 2022

"I'm not breaking my edge for your European t!tty movie..." -PORNO (2…

Three young Evangelical movie users find a strange unmarked roll of film in the theater's basement. Thinking it might be porn, they screen the movie and accidentally unleash a bloodthirsty succubus. But in order to survive,...

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Nov. 4, 2022

"Twirl, baby! Twirl!" - I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME AT HOUSE HARKER (201…

Halloween may be over, but the horrific hijinx continue with the delightful vampire comedy I HAD A BLOODY GOOD TIME AT HOUSE HARKER (2016 ). The bumbling descendants of Jonothan and Mina Harker must raise $50,000 to save thei...

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Oct. 7, 2022

"This movie is so lonely..." - GRIMM LOVE (2006)

CW: suicide, child abuse, child endangerment, sexual violence, dark psychological themes. Love bites. Love bleeds. Love lives. Love dies. Love begs. Love pleads. Love is Grimm. The final stop on our "Dark Side Of Rainbow" tou...

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June 24, 2022

"My tuck is everlasting..." - DEATH DROP GORGEOUS (2020)

THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part Two - "Queer Prejudices" On the next leg of our journey to the ugly underbelly of LGBT+ life, we're heading to Providence, Rhode Island for the dragtastic, glitter-sprinkled, and gore-streak...

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June 10, 2022

"Heterosexuality is a bourgeois scam..." - POLTERGAY (2006)

THE DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW: Part 1 - "Queer Stereotypes" Don't you hate it when your favorite disco is also an ancient Templar shrine and you die in a freak foam party accident and your soul is forced to walk the earth for ...

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Feb. 14, 2022

"Evil Runs In The Family" - THE MOOSE HEAD OVER THE MANTEL (2017)

Meet the Hoffheinze family. They're respectable...presentable....and dangerous as hell. You are aboiut to watch a century's worth of their family history through the eyes of the one witness who has witnessed their crimes....w...

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Jan. 10, 2022

"Perhaps she requires liquid nourishment..." - QUEEN OF BLOOD (1966)

Get ready to blast off into a galaxy of gay camp and mortal terror as we go do the depths of space to battle the QUEEN OF BLOOD ! A group of astronauts on a rescue mission to Mars suddenly find themselves on the menu when the...

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