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!
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Screaming Queenz Ep 43 - Mummy Dearest
Screaming Queenz Ep 42 - Babashook!
Screaming Queenz Ep 41 - Stage Fright (2014)
Screaming Queenz Ep 40 - Video Nasties - The Cannibal Man
Screaming Queenz Ep 39 - Alien Covenant Review
Screaming Queenz Ep 38 - Little Barbershop of Horrors - Musicals Pt 1
Screaming Queenz Ep 37 - The Lost Boys
Screaming Queenz Ep 36 - PSYCHO
Screaming Queenz Ep 35 - Video Nasty Double Bill!
Screaming Queenz Ep 34 - The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
Screaming Queenz Ep 33 - GET OUT!
Screaming Queenz Ep 32 - Video Nasties: Possession
Screaming Queenz Ep 31 - The Killer Reserved Nine Eyeballs!
Screaming Queenz Ep 30 - Feud! Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Screaming Queenz Ep 29 - Neon Demon
Screaming Queenz Ep 28 - Giallo A Venezia!
Screaming Queenz Ep 27 - Silent Night, Krampus Night!
Screaming Queenz Ep 26 - Black Christmas!
Screaming Queenz Ep 25 - Daughters of Darkness
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