Girls, Guts, and Giallo
A podcast about subversive and controversial cinema hosted by Lesbian Vampire, Annie Rose and featuring various guests. We explore sin-ema through the lens of queer sex work and leather history sensibility. A celebration of trash and feminine perversion.
Episodes
Morbid YouTuber/tattoo artist Darby Valentine joins me for a discussion about this infamous West German horror nasty. We chat about female necrophiliacs, punk culture in 1980s Germany, and romantic gore.
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Morbid YouTuber/tattoo artist Darby Valentine joins me for the first GGG discussion! We chat about this infamous West German horror nasty. We discuss female necrophiliacs, punk culture in 1980s Germany, and romantic gore.
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This episode is dedicated to the iconic David Lynch. The first two hours are FREE, but to listen to the entire four hour long episode, sign up at Patreon.com/GirlsGutsGiallo!
Carr Conaway is back to discuss another David Lynch masterpiece. This is one of favorite movies and we leave no stone unturned. We analyze the film scene by scene and discuss various theories about the plot, symbolism, and iconography. We attempt to unravel the...
Pro Domme and artist Micha Malvada joins me to discuss George Franju's horror masterwork. We discuss the political climate of France post-WWII, George Franju's politics, medical horror, and more.
You can find Micha Malvada at luxuryevil.com
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Not feeling the holiday spirit? Neither are we! Comedian Honey Pluton joins me for an episode that will surely land us on some kind of list (if we aren't on there already!) We discuss a collection of films that embody the anti-Amerikkkan insurgent spirit. We also rant about our unhinged political beliefs.
Happy Halloween, perverts! Recurring guest and Halloween historian Lucé Tomlin-Brenner joins me for a chat about horny horror. What is the difference between horror that is simply psychosexual vs. erotic? Why are we horny for fear and violence? What is the state of erotic horror today? We discuss these questions as well as our personal canon of horny horror icons like Jean Rollin, Jess Franco, Paul Morrissey, and David Cronenberg.
...We are celebrating Folsom Weekend on Girls, Guts, & Giallo! Director/artist Michelle Handelman joins me for an interview about her paradigm shifting, transgressive documentary on the leatherdykes of San Francisco. BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism (1995) is screening at the Roxie Theater Saturday 9/28, which is one of the theaters it originally was shown at back when it was first released. It’s a very special screening...
Video artist Liz Zito joins me to discuss a film whose killer bears her name: the infamous Maniac! We talk Italian-American horror, masculinity, women who love grindhouse, and more.
This is the free version of my episode with Vita Breva on the cult classic film, The Wicker Man. To access the full episode, subscribe to my Patreon at patreon.com/girlsgutsgiallo or sign up on Spotify or Apple subscriptions. You don't want to miss the full version!
As a director associated with the Cinema of Transgression movement, Charles Pinion made three SOV horror classics in the late 80s/early to mid 90s: Twisted Issues (1988), Red Spirit Lake (1993), and We Await (1996). In this interview, Charles and I discuss his filmmaking career, as well as his foray into the porn industry. The director generously shares his stories in this full two hour interview, the first part of which is availab...
This is part two of a two part episode. Filmmaker Carr Conaway guests on this highly requested episode. A titan of the neo-noir movement, Blue Velvet is one of David Lynch's masterpieces. This is a traditional GGG episode with a scene by scene analysis. Join us for discussions of Freudian theory, the neo-noir genre, and David Lynch's career in the 1980s.
Part I of II! My gay goth brother Travis Merriman guests on the show to gush blood over Neil Jordan's homoerotic vampire classic.
Part II of my discussion with Annaliese about Ms. 45. We continue to analyze the film in full!
Annaliese joins me for a rigorous, sometimes emotional, discussion of Abel Ferrara's famous rape revenge exploitation film starring Zoe Lund. This is Part I. Part II comes out next week. This was a great discussion and I know you all will enjoy it. We talk about what the film means to us as survivors, why we dislike most discourse about survivorship, and begin to discuss the film in depth. Happy Halloween, freaks!
Scottish critic Michael Gillespie joins me for a discussion about this subversive '90s sleeper hit.
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I have a new episode for you! Only my patrons have access to the full episode I recorded with Katrina Kemp (@kueenkatrina)! Sign up on patreon.com/girlsgutsgiallo for the full experience. The first hour and a half is available for free
Katrina Kemp, a prolific actress and little person rights advocate, joins me for a thorough discussion about Tod Browning's controversial Hollywood film: Freaks (1932). We talk about the hi...
Kamikaze Jones returns for the third installment in our series about important directors of gay porn from the 1970s!
In a stunning reevaluation of a film I once called "indefensible," trans therapist and femme sadist Maeve Martin joins me for an episode about Brian De Palma's most controversial film. This a traditional GGG episode, meaning we go scene by scene and do a deep analysis of the subversive themes and history of the film. Maeve provides much needed insights on psychiatric history in regards to gender dysphoria.
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