You have to control yourself.

You have to control yourself. And welcome back to horror queers. We're doing a little cutesy book review, and I'm Joe.

And I'm Trace. And yes, it is true. Joe got me to read a book.

It's not the first time. Probably won't be the last time, but we don't do it too often. No, not very often. But honestly, Joe, I got to say, I really do cherish the chances when I'm forced to read it because I know. What a statement. Force sounds bad, but I used to be a big reader. And I know I've said this before, but like I used to be a person that would read every night before bed.

And I just don't anymore. I think just because I'm exhausted. But, so that being said, though, again, when I'm forced to, it's not necessarily always a bad thing for me. And I, I mean, we got to read a book about fucking horror movies, Joe. Yeah. So folks, we're talking about Clark Collis' book, Screaming and Conjuring, The Resurrection and Unstoppable

rise of the modern horror movie.

This is quite a tome on contemporary horror films, basically from Scream, 1996, all the

way through to the Conjuring Universe.

And it's available as of September 2nd.

So we're just going to walk you through a couple of the big things that we like,

maybe some of the gentle criticisms we had around some of the formatting. And then we're going to encourage you to go out and check it out.

Because if you want to know the backstory behind a bunch of your favorite recent films, this thing will give it to you.

Oh, absolutely. And you are right. This is a to tell me all. This is nearly 500 pages tracking this period from 96 to 2013. And I think when it was announced, well, I was really excited because I don't know how

familiar you are with Clark Hollis, but like I definitely had read or have been reading a lot of

his work back when he worked for Entertainment Weekly. I mean, my God, he interviewed us. He

profiled horror. Oh, I know. The queer horror pieces. So. Absolutely, which also very grateful

for that. But I think when I saw he was doing this, I was just really excited because, well, excited and also kind of sad because I was excited because I was like, oh, wow, this period of horror that hasn't really gotten like this kind of academic, really public focus the same way the 70s and 80s have.

I was so excited for that.

But then I was sad because I was like,

oh, wow, that means we're far enough away from this period that people are reflecting on it.

Yeah, yeah. And you mentioned that this is academic. And I'm going to gently correct you because I

think that this is highly accessible. You know, we're not doing readings of the films. We're

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