Perdita Durango (1997) feat. Kay Lynch

Horror Queers

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Make sure those human fetuses are refrigerated properly because we're hitting the road with Rosie (fucking) Perez and Javier Bardem in Álex de la Iglesia's controversial film Perdita Durango (1997), which only just saw the release of its uncut version last year! Joining us for the trip is Salem Horror Fest's Festival Director Kay Lynch! Join us as we look at the film's origins as a sequel to Wild at Heart (yes, really) before discussing the films taboo and challenging subject matter. Rosie Perez's career-best performance forces us to rationalize loving a character who commits so many heinous acts. Oh, and content warnings aplenty for this one because we've got filicide, f-slurs, voodoo rituals, copious amounts of cocaine, blood sacrifices, corpse mutilations, grave desecrations and, in the words of the director himself, consensual rape??? And that's all just in the film's first hour! Reference: Peter Buse, Núria Triana-Toribio and Andrew Willis. The Cinema of Álex de la Iglesia Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote > Kay: @videocoven / @salemhorrorfest / salemhorror.com Be sure to support the boys on Patreon! Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada 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	Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the bloody disgusting network.
0:10.6	The following show is just horrifying.
0:15.8	Beware.
0:20.4	The Sheriff, you're not cheating on your wife if you eat my lemon square.
0:33.4	Your lemon squares taste like ass.
0:37.4	Music Your lemon squares taste like ass.
0:45.5	And welcome back to horror queers.
0:47.8	We're talking dead baby jokes.
0:52.7	We're talking about the strangest people coming up with the most interesting ideas.
0:56.7	And we're talking Rosie fucking Perez.
0:57.9	And I'm Joe.
0:59.4	And I'm Trace.
1:01.5	And we're talking fuck Batman.
1:08.0	It was one of like 25 different Rosie Perez lines that I knew you were going to pick from.
1:13.3	I have, yeah, I knew from the moment I first saw this movie, whenever we cover this, which I knew I'd make us cover, I'm doing fuck Batman.
1:15.0	But everyone, we are discussing Alex de la Iglesias, her Dita Durango, which I'm willing to bet
1:22.1	95% of you have never heard of.
1:24.2	Yeah, it seems like a fair bet. Either that or maybe we have listeners from Spain who are
1:29.6	big fans, since he is one of their big time film directors. Maybe, maybe so. And of course,
1:36.0	if you're a big fan of HBO's 30 coins, he is the creator of that. But if you're starting this
1:41.1	and you're like, what is it? Go to Shudder and it's there and you can watch it.
1:44.8	Yeah.
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