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Give Adrian Homework! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-18 00:25:22
Edited:
2025-10-18 00:26:13
Imported:
2026-09

Poll

Give Adrian Homework!

  • The Vanishing (1988) 14
  • Cat People (1942 or 1982) 37
  • Alien (1979) 173
  • The Company of Wolves (1984) 15
  • Re-Animator (1985) 15
  • Scream (1996) 100
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 77
  • The Lost Boys (1987) 65
  • Cujo (1983) 6
  • The Watcher in the Woods (1980) 11
  • The Stepfather (1987) 4
  • The Lair of the White Worm (1988) 17
  • The Wicker Man (1973 or 2006) 92
  • 2025-10-18
  • 626 votes
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Content

Hi all! For our Halloween episode of In Bed with the Right we are planning to talk horror films and gender politics! The idea was that Moira and Adrian would each bring in a few favorite examples to present and talk through!

Adrian had what he thought was a good list, but then he started getting ambitious. Why not dive into a film he hadn't thought so much about. And -- like a person tinkering with the Lament Configuration and thinking hey what's the worst that could happen -- he blundered onto a truly demonic idea. Why not ask you, our patrons, to select his movies for him? So... feel free to vote below!

Now, there are some restrictions: Adrian is somewhat squeamish, meaning -- the Hellraiser joke from a second ago not withstanding -- Hellraiser is off the menu. Also, no torture-y stuff. Finally, the movie has to be available for streaming or renting. That being said, here's the list of thirteen spoooooky nominees:

(Movies that don't make the cut for the episode might make an appearance in a future Substack post, btw, so if you're an absolute Herbert West-freak and your pick doesn't make it, do not despair!)

Comments

Nina V~

i am TORN between the original "cat people" and "scream," oh no!

Miggy

Omg yes I’d love to hear your takes about Alien!!

Jon F

So many good ones, but I would love to hear you talk about the original Wicker Man.

Drew Kidder

Guess we’ll have to wait until 2026 for Event Horizon or At the Mouth of Madness

Lorissa

Omg The Lost Boys hugely resonant for so many GenXers—the aesthetics, the music, etc etc. You must do this film. Dracula, as with all vampire films, almost *too* rich for a gender reading

Brianna Bertoglio

I voted for The Lost Boys to represent those of us who were tweens when it came out, it was a very important slumber party movie. We were drawn to it initially because of both Cory's, but then became captivated by the homoeroticism between Jason Patrick and Kiefer Sutherland. I've seen it in revival theaters twice as an adult once this year, and it's still very funny and exciting (In entertainment way as well as emotionally). Plus Diane Wiest, proving no one in cinema has ever been better at playing and overwhelmed mother 😂

Meowca

LOL I chose Re-Animator before I even saw the joke at the end. Would love to hear your thoughts on queer readings of it!

Zach

I am curious about giallo, or giallo-adjacent stuff like Suspiria. I never quite know how to think about the quasi-slasher elements, but am a sucker for a mystery. And a soundtrack.

Zach

Oh, or "Possession", if you want a strangely young looking Sam Neill

Barb B

Cryyyyy little sister....

Allen

Cat People (either one)

Emma Duffy

The Wicker Man might make for an interesting discussion of preacher masculinity outside of American culture. In the extended cuts we see that Sergeant Howie’s rigidity in his beliefs hasn’t actually won him any respect from his colleagues. The film sets up a dichotomy between Howie, a man whose sexuality is repressed as much by Presbyterian notions of working-class respectability as his own personal religious convictions, and Lord Summerisle the sexually indulgent aristocrat.

Foxhilt

Absolutely seconded! The original is so ripe (ha) for gender politics readings!

Colleen

Only being able to vote for one is a crime hahaha There are so many good options! Ended up voting for Scream, but Lost Boys and Alien are classics in their own rights

James Miola

Lot of good stuff in Alien. The characters were allegedly all written gender-neutrally and then cast. One of the characters (Lambert) was retconned to be trans in the sequel based on info seen in the background of one scene.

Mackenzie Brown

You put alien down, but both Promethus and alien:Romulus have weird birthing scenes. Which would be cool to see you guys dig into. Because I know there is something there but I can't figure it out.

Bruce

It's clearly not going to win, but The Stepfather is an amazing movie and a surprisingly insightful take on Reagan era "family values."

Nina V~

i'm also going to point out that you could do a folk horror double feature with either version of "wicker man" & "watcher in the woods"

In Bed With the Right

I may get back to it, because while I haven't seen it in *ages*, that's exactly how I recalled it!

Carsten Brombach

My vote also goes to Alien - as someone put it: „a movie in which noone listens to the smart woman, and then everyone dies except for the woman and her cat. Four stars“.

Jeanette Wall

Please.... my wife.... she wants me to have The Vanishing ep

Ilona

I am sure there are better horror movies than Scream, but this movie and the time it was released was so weird. 90ies, pop-trash, this very specific group of actors with this mix of genres (I might be biased because it overlaps with my teenage years - which are also weird times with weird feelings and a lot of mixing and suddenly there is Scream and the expectation that as a becoming adult this is what one would watch, understand and find entertaining). It’s all coming back.

Claire Thompson

how dare I be forced to pick one when I wish to pick several. I settled on Dracula as it’s a personal touchstone, but I wanted to choose multiple others. I demand (gently, respectfully, really in a politely asking way) a full horror series. totally fine if it’s a patreon exclusive 😉

Jessica Armstrong

Ooh if there’s a horror series on offer I’d have some of that too 🙏🏻

Estarrgh

I’ve only seen alien and scream on this list. So obviously sigourney gets my vote.

Saschi

This is so exciting! it seems like it will be Alien. as someone whose married name is Gyger, even when I have only said it aloud I'm called "Geiger." I will jump for joy if y'all pronounce Giger the Swiss way :P

Beavis

This is a travesty, I love all of my children equally… except The Vanishing is clearly the best. Won’t win, but so good. Spoorloos is flawless, but bonus points if you watch the shitty American remake and compare/contrast!

Anne Paxton

Agree with Kalie. The Vanishing is the most horrifying film I ever saw and the terror stayed with me for decades. But is it really a horror film? It’s more a psychological thriller that hits hard. If it doesn’t make it to the top of the Halloween episode maybe it can be discussed another time

Gabe Dusenbury

I voted The Wicker Man, just want to make clear that's for the original, not the remake. Folk Horror feels like a good lane to explore a clash of attitudes towards sex. Also just watched a very good (but 3 hour long) documentary on folk horror generally, which is up on Kanopy. Tons of interesting stuff explored in that. Mostly just listing it here for anyone interested, it's called "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched," and it has some really great and interesting looks at folk horror movies worldwide.

Darren Hughes

The 1942 Cat People is an all-time great film!

Nathan Atkinson

Don’t sleep on Possession (1981). It’s got it all: Sam Neil, Isabelle Adjani, demonic pregnancy, Berlin

Rachel K

Wicker Man (1973)! (Formerly extremely online™️ confession: Partly inspired by the most bananas goncharov montages on tumblr, which consider any 1973 movie fair game)

Diane Crotty

The Wicker Man- the remake. Because the remake is insane and terrible.

Nina V~

also, it's too bad that adrian is squeamish, bc i would love to hear either version of "suspiria" (tho i must point out that the remake interfaces more with the politics of divided berlin in the 70's) unpacked by someone actually from germany.

James Hultgren

I only saw “Cat People” (1942) and couple of days ago and the gender politics are INSANE. I really didn’t enjoy it… but I am curious now to see the 80s version and see what they changed (or if they didn’t).

Louzie

I'd be sad to see it becoming Alien, as it's one of the most talked-about films with regard to horror+gender, but oh well. You guys will make it an interesting listen regardless. ;-) Personally, I voted The Company of Wolves, one because it was significant for my teen self, and two because, even it it's kind of in-your-face with some of the gender narratives, the way it is embedded in it's time and discourse(s) is super interesting, and I'm sure there's tons to discover that I don't know of, and that I'd love you to explain to me. <3

Anne

I agree on the insane gender politics (+ weird racism towards Eastern Europeans) so I actually voted for it. I really wanna hear Moira and Adrian’s thoughts on it, though I feel it’s unlikely to win. (P.s. I have not seen the 80s version)

Elizabeth Sutcliffe

Seconding this whole comment. I'm sure you guys would have interesting things to say about Alien, but I feel like that's been done to death. The Company of Wolves is such a deeply weird film, and Angela Carter's whole body of work is super interesting.

Maxwell

Even though y’all aren’t soliciting suggestions, I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on Titane; and even though it’s not horror, I feel that Strange Days could make a phenomenal episode, as prescient as it is (though, content warning, it contains one of the more profoundly disturbing sequences ever put to film, at least to me)

William Knight

Voting for The Wicker Man, ideally the original, which I take to be an illustration of the ways men project sexual fears and fantasies onto women as well as projecting meaning onto the world.

William Knight

Hot take is that it is the conflict between the Priest and Pervert forms of masculinity with elements of the creep sprinkled in.