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Micro Queers: Hey You (2019)

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Film Reviews, Lgbt Horror, Gay, Gay Horror, Queer Horror, Lgbt, Queer, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We're back with our second outing of Micro Queers, and this week we're discussing Jared Watmuff's award-winning short film Hey You (click the link to view the 4-minute-long short), which chronicles the dangers of dating app hookups with a real-world horror twist. Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, and/or Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote Support the boys on Patreon and shop our online store for your very own Horror Queers merchandise!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the bloody disgusting podcast network.

0:04.0

We're gonna carry on and plan the sequel because let's face it baby these days

0:23.3

you got to have a sequel and welcome back to microqueers. It's the weekly short queer thing that we're doing now. And I'm going to work on that introduction as we progress. And I'm Joe. And I'm Trace. And yeah, we're talking something that I was not expecting to talk about today, and it got real heavy, real quick.

0:57.3

I swear, one of these times I'm just going to hit you with a fun short, but yeah, we're talking

1:02.3

about British short, Hey You from 2019, and folks, we're just going to give a content warning

1:08.5

right off the top in the event that you haven't watched this short.

1:12.2

It is, in fact, very short at only four minutes, but it is disturbing in its subject matter.

1:18.9

Yes.

1:19.8

It's interesting, though.

1:20.9

It's not explicit in the sense of like, we'll talk about the editing in a second.

1:25.7

But yeah, I mean, so it's not violent, but the implications are there, and it's very upsetting to watch.

1:32.6

And it was what I started my Monday morning with, and that was an interesting way to start my week.

1:37.4

Ooh, congratulations.

1:40.2

Yeah, so this is by a queer British director named Jared Watneth.

1:46.1

And I think some people are going to do that sweeping categorization thing and say,

1:53.9

hey, this isn't really a horror short because really this is more about dramatic, traumatic,

1:59.7

real life incidents, to which I say,

2:03.4

welcome to life as a queer person.

2:05.3

Yeah, I wasn't going to say, I called bullshit on that because I was very

2:08.6

like upset and scared watching this.

2:10.9

And it's because, I mean, again, that's, oh, God,

2:13.6

it was just today that someone was on Twitter talking about how

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