This is a bloody disgusting podcast network.

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

These days, you got to have a sequel.

And welcome back to microqueers.

It's your weekly roundup of queer horror shorts, and I'm Joe.

And I'm Trace, and we're talking, it was only a dream again in Sond of the Dead.

Yes, dash a fairy tale.

And the reason I say that is because I know that this short has two things that you don't love, zombies, and the it was all a dream trope.

I will say that in this particular short, which I do think is about eight minutes too long, it's all a dream actually did work for me, given the context of the film.

I'll say mostly worked.

I still, we'll get into it as we talk about this main character.

But I do, I did think there was some innovative things that were going on here.

And also, I mean, we're calling, it's called a sauna, but I mean, I know it

better as a bathhouse. Yeah, that could just be because this is a UK short, so they might

have a different name. But before we get too far into it, let me read you the log line in case

people haven't watched the short. And of course, as always, you can watch it through the link in the show notes. So, Sana the Dead dash a fairy tale is a fable in the vein of a Christmas

carol set in a gay sauna with zombies. A jaded narcissist stalks the bathhouse halls looking

for his next hookup. When he finds himself in the midst of a zombie outbreak, his survival may depend on the one thing

he didn't come there for.

A human connection.

So two things.

One, I did like that this was a gay man in a bathhouse who was very much not into intimacy,

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