Episode 10 - MICHAEL VARRATI - BONUS CONTENT
Added 2024-01-15 15:00:13 +0000 UTCEpisode 10’s guest is Michael Varrati, writer, director, podcaster known for his work on The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, Tales of Poe, A Christmas in Vermont, The Wrong Stepmother, Unusual Attachment, and the audio series Darkest Night and Deadly Manners. He is an expert pop culture, horror and its relationship to the LGBTQ experience.
In this episode, we debate whether the Scream Dreams studio is kind of yonic – and what yonic means! Michael talks about his Troma connections, working with Peaches Christ on his Midnight Mass show, the queer appeal of Disney villains and Dracula’s lesbian origins, cult movies and Rocky Horror, advice for making a first feature, and the secret of getting ‘camp’ right.
Comments
He is a fantastic interview!
2024-01-16 20:21:55 +0000 UTCMichael has definitely thought a lot about it - and that makes sense.
2024-01-15 18:32:50 +0000 UTCI *really* like Michael's comments about how LGBTQ+ representation in movies shouldn't always be vanilla. We are people with faults, we wouldn't always survive a horror movie just because we are queer, and some of us can be villains. I feel having that kind of honest representation to be much more true to real life, and should be the kind of inclusion we desire - to not be treated as a "special" case, but just like everyone else.
KissMyFlapjack
2024-01-15 16:57:31 +0000 UTC
