We're taking a long hard look at Hitchcock's queer classic 'Rope' where Farley Granger and John Dall thumb their handsome noses at the Hayes code and play a queer couple who murder for kicks. OK so they couldn't kiss, touch or tap dance to Judy Garland, but almost every scene in this play-on-film crackles with queer sexual tension between the two... and that's before their mentor Jimmy Stewart shows up... But where did the inspiration come for these twisted queens?
Enter Leopold and Loeb - socialite bright young things who in 1924 killed a young boy for kicks and thought they were above the law. They weren't. But their twisted romance and horrific crime meant the pair went down in history. Not only did they inspire a play by Patrick Hamilton and the movie by Hitch but they inspired Swoon, a 90s avant garde queer art film. We look at both, we celebrate the genius of Hitch (again) but we also have a right old laugh about butt plugs, flip-flopping tops and bottoms, and reveal which queer heart throb COULD have played opposite Farley Granger... if he hadn't been so painfully closeted.
Spoilers, bad puns and frankly disgusting humour ahoy!
Episode 64 - Hostel, Part 2
NAZISPLOITATION! Ilsa She Wolf of the SS
Episode 62 - Terrifying The Strangers with Ghost Stories in a Quiet Place
Episode 61 - Hostel, Part 1
Episode 60 - Dream Home
Episode 58 - Silence of the Lambs
Episode 57 - My Bloody Valentine Original v Remake
Episode 56 - SCREAM
Episode 55 - The Birds
Episode 54 - Ghost Stories For Christmas
Episode 53 - Nosferatu vs The Manster!
Episode 52 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Screaming Queenz Ep 51 - The Descent
Screaming Queenz Ep 50 - Halloween
Screaming Queenz Ep 49 - Plan 9 vs Ghostshark!
Screaming Queenz Ep 48 - The Bad Seed
Screaming Queenz Ep 47 - So Bad It's Good Part 1
Screaming Queenz Ep 46 - Strait Jacket
Screaming Queenz Ep 45 - The Greasy Strangler!
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