This being a Stephen King podcast, Jones discusses his favorite King books and the Skeleton Crew story that helped inspire My Heart is a Chainsaw. In the latest installment of The Losers’ Club’s On Writers series, co-hosts Randall Colburn and Mel Kassel talk to Jones about the book’s long road to publication, “likable” characters in fiction, and his own evolving relationship to the slashers of yore. That said, it’s also a riot, its twists and turns punctuated with eccentric and thoughtful analysis of one of horror’s most disreputable genres. My Heart is a Chainsaw, the first in a trilogy, has plenty of humor and horror, but it’s really a portrait of a girl whose lot in life has driven her away from reality and into the celluloid arms of Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers. Her desire to impose the tenets of slashers on her community’s situation isn’t appealing, it’s alienating.
Jade’s horror fandom isn’t quirky, it’s all-consuming. It sounds cute, that premise, but Jones’ excellent book is anything but. As the community’s slasher sage, it’s on her to identify the patterns, the suspects, and, of course, the final girl. She likes them so much that when it appears a real slasher has descended upon her small Idaho town, her reaction isn’t one of horror, but of excitement. Jade Daniels, the teenage protagonist of Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart is a Chainsaw, likes scary movies, too. P.S. Subscribe to our Patreon for more than 165 hours of additional content! This month, we’re discussing horror movies that make us cry, Shudder’s new zombie movie The Sadness, the remake of Firestarter, Alex Garland’s Men and an audio commentary on 28 Weeks Later to commemorate its 15th anniversary!ĭo you like scary movies? Of course you do, you’re reading Bloody Disgusting. Plus: meat-eating as a sign of masculinity, the importance of breaking tradition, questionable police interrogation rooms and a crater of copulating creatures.Ĭoming up on Wednesday: We’re tackling our newest release ever on the main feed in Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (which is currently available to rent on VOD)! Join us as we try to figure out what the tentacle alien monster represents while, laud the film for its realistic (and graphic!) depiction of gay sex and then jump right into adding a new letter to the LGBTQIA acronym (someone alert GLAAD!). Strap in because we’re discussing our first Mexican film and boy is it a doozy! We’re going to be discussing all the internalized homophobia and tentacle alien monster sexcapades in Amat Escalante’s 2016 film The Untamed!
You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. When Alejandra finds out, she seeks solace in her new friend Verónica ( Simone Bucio), who tells her of a strange meteorite containing a mysterious creature that acts as a source of both pleasure and destruction.īe sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. The closeted Ángel is secretly having an affair with Alejandra’s brother Fabián ( Eden Villavicencio). In the film, Alejandra ( Ruth Ramos) and Ángel ( Jesús Meza) are in a troubled marriage. Now we’re making our first journey to Mexico as we discuss the tentacle alien monster at the center (end?) of Amat Escalante‘s The Untamed (2016). After traveling all the way to Sweden to look at the evolving friendship between Eli and Oskar in Let the Right One In, we changed up the pace a little bit with an off-kilter pick in Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece Who Framed Roger Rabbit.