We take Pride seriously at the Brothers Grim Horror Podcast. Human rights are being discussed in Congress as if they’re a thing to compromise for policy decisions; the very right to exist, as the person that you truly are, to live and to love as freely as heterosexual, cisgendered people is up for debate as if debating the most basic of human rights is not one of the most heinous notions in the history of our species. So we’re planting our flag and doing about as much as a podcast can when nobody really listens to it. We pledge our support and celebrate the product of queer artists by highlighting pieces of the horror movie milieu that wouldn’t exist without them.
As horror movies of the past find reappraisal by queer folks in the light of modern times, we do believe that we have one that deserves some inspection. Vamp is an adequate horror comedy from 1986 that might have faded from memory beneath the shifting sands of time were it not for one very important piece of the puzzle that makes an otherwise forgettable movie stand out: Grace Jones. In this episode of The Brothers Grim Horror Podcast, you’ll learn way more than you were probably expecting to about artists Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe as well as about AIDS activism in the 1980’s. We also uncover a strange quality of the movie’s cast that tips a bromance over into a territory of wild longing and unrequited love of one man for another.
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