I hate to say it, but his parents have been feeling unwell as of late, and I'm staying with them to help take care of Alex. Oh, so it's serious? Oh, no, no, it's not serious. Nothing terminal.

It's just a touch of consumption.

Welcome back to Microqueers.

It's our sporadic queer horror movie Roundup, and I'm Joe.

And I'm Trace, and we are discussing the mid-2000s

a Carrie, I know you did last summer hybrid slash like pre-dates Jennifer's body kind of thing.

Yes. Tamara! Tamara! Yeah, so of course, this was written by Jeffrey Reddick. He of Final Destination, which is part of the reason that we're covering it.

And you had seen this.

I had not.

This is such a curiosity.

Like, what a weird little movie to the point where you and I actually had to have back and forth conversations about, okay, this isn't a big movie, so we're not going to

program it on the main feed. But as I told you right before we hit record, I have so many

thoughts and feelings about this film. I, yeah, this, so I mean, full disclosure, yeah, I saw

this in college and I did not like it. Okay. Yep. But even at the time, I don't, I don't think I was aware of who Jenna Dewan was at the time. Okay. Okay. But I haven't seen it since. And so I was mildly intrigued with the prospect of revisiting this. And here's the thing. I don't think this is a good movie, but I still would recommend people watch it. It is a time capsule of the 2000s.

Oh, my God, the fucking fashion alone.

Every girl in this movie is like, oh, God, right, I remember that outfit.

Like, honest to God, that specific outfit that each female character is wearing at any individual point in this film.

I was like, yep, I remember that.

Yeah, very much so.

And I don't think Redick screenplay is particularly great.

It's not terrible, but it's pretty...

There's some definite issues with this, and maybe before we get too far into this, we should

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