I’ve always loved horror even as a young kid. Thank you for having Peaches on the show to discuss some of her faves. Good solid choices for sure, and as always tons of stuff beneath the surface you could add. Peaches is my favorite guest simply because I am such a movie nut! More Peaches please!!!!

One of the most interesting thing to me is how horror movies make bad guys (and gals) out of the queer community. Peaches brought it up with the analysis of NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and of course SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is loaded with it. I remember an ’80s flick called TERROR TRAIN where the killer was also a transsexual, or at least a drag queen. PSYCHO had a cross-dressing killer who couldn’t have sex with women, The list is really endless when you look at it. Brian De Palma followed up CARRIE with DRESSED TO KILL in which Michael Caine also took a turn stabbing people in a dress.

I would add these to your Halloween viewing to balance some of it out:

THE HUNGER - Catherine Deneuve puts the moves on Susan Sarandon in one of the best lesbian vampire love scenes ever filmed.

HELL BENT - a gay slasher flick set in West Hollywood on Halloween. Somewhat silly, but truly a neat twist on the slash ‘em up genre for the queer set.

LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE - a Spanish take on Romero’s zombie movies done with a touch more style and some sexier sequences.

THE SEVENTH VICTIM - a movie Val Lewton (CAT PEOPLE) did about satanists that rivals ROSEMARY’S BABY for creepy horror.