![]() Regardless of what the film actually contains narratively, she was going to be a meme. I think that as soon as I saw that trailer, and I saw that dance, I was like, “Oh, I know what’s going to happen here.” You know, it was very clear to me that it was going to be sort of instant gay iconography. I worry because I’m in this homosexual bubble that I might be imagining things, and I just want to know if you’re seeing the same thing. Like we must see this movie with this murder doll. I can’t fully explain it myself, but as a flagrantly homosexual man, I feel like this movie has triggered some kind of synapses in gay brains. We talked about where M3gan fits into the long history of killer dollies on screen, why LGBTQ people love the genre (hint: because it subverts real life), and how horror can give queer people an escape that they might not find anywhere else. To help figure out the obsession, I spoke with Joe Vallese, a professor at NYU and the editor of It Came From the Closet, a collection of critical essays about the intersection of queerness and horror movies. A lot of that love was from queer people who were already (ironically and unironically) anointing M3gan as a queer icon, not unlike the way we’d done for Ma’s Ma, or the mother in Barbarian, or the Babadook, or Pearl from X, or Scream’s Ghostface. All over the internet were fan-made videos of M3gan dancing as well as declarations - from people who hadn’t even seen the movie - that M3gan was coming for the crowns of fellow murder dolls Chucky and Annabelle. And while glamorous women who dance and are capable of homicide appeal directly to my homosexual tastes (I love Chicago!), I couldn’t figure out why I desperately needed to see this movie. Since the initial trailer release in October, I’ve wanted nothing more than to watch this beautiful mean-girl animatronic cheerleader kill things, wreak havoc, and terrorize Allison Williams. So imagine my surprise when I, of my own free will, found myself deeply obsessed with M3gan, a Blumhouse-James Wan movie about a pretty doll that murders people. I saw The Blair Witch Project, and that was really just a nail in the coffin when it comes to camping, an activity I was already skeptical about. I watched The Strangers and was checking the locks on my front door multiple times a night. ![]() ![]() will center on memories of the meals or favorite foods we all grew up with, from the exotic to the mundane, dishes that still tickle or tantalize us as adults." He is also working on his memoirs.When it comes to horror movies, I’m a scaredy cat. "Cooking by Heart," with celebrity guests, is a show "featuring discussions with well-known actors, directors, authors, chefs, politicians, business figures, and comedians. Sarandon hasn't acted much since 2015, but has taken on a new career as a food podcaster. Always afraid of being typecast as a villain, Sarandon achieved vocal immortality as a sort of anti-hero, forever to be associated with every goth kid's favorite animated, narcissistic holiday-wrecker. Danny Elfman handled the singing, but Sarandon has continued to speak Jack dialogue in video games, parades, theme park rides, and everything in between. As Jack Skellington in "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas," Sarandon gave voice to a Halloween mainstay who has subsequently become one of the most merchandised and cosplayed characters of all time.
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