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Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

SBG 133: Lisa Frankenstein with Silas Howard

Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Lez Hang Out

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out with Silas Howard (@silash), award-winning trans filmmaker, to talk about why the 2024 horror-romcom Lisa Frankenstein Should’ve Been Gay. If you recall, we recently did an SBG episode on the 2022 series Darby and the Dead, which was directed by none other than Silas. So when we decided to do an episode on Lisa Frankenstein, we could not think of a more fitting guest for discussing this incredibly campy, queer-coded Halloweencore romcom. As you all know by now, monsters are super queer-coded. They are often depicted on the fringes of society, hiding in literal closets, and transforming their bodies in unique ways. If you identified with the misunderstood monster in horror movies growing up, you’re probably some flavor of queer now. Lisa Frankenstein takes identifying with monsters a step further by making the transmasc-coded creature a love interest for the main character.  The story follows Kathryn Newton’s character Lisa Swallows (the jokes basically write themselves) and her growing friendship with a reanimated corpse. She seems entirely unconcerned with his whole being dead thing and doesn’t mind one bit that he is missing certain body parts. Things get increasingly unhinged as Lisa begins helping her new friend get the body parts he needs to feel affirmed and comfortable in his newly reanimated skin.  Everything in this film from the plot to the cast (Carla freaking Gugino is in this!) to the color palette to the over the top drag-influence on the costume design is too queer-coded to have been unintentional. Honestly even the morally ambiguous way that the characters approach killing is queer-coded. Even though the film doesn’t go all the way there or expressly state anyone’s sexuality, it’s basically leaping off the screen the entire time.  We know one thing for sure, Lisa Frankenstein Should’ve Been Gay(er).  You can support Lez Hang Out while unlocking a bunch of awesome perks like access to our exclusive Discord, 23 and counting full-length bonus episodes (including our brand new episode on the dark comedy/psychological thriller Saltburn), weekly ad-free episodes, and more by joining us on Patreon at bit.ly/lezpatreon. You can also support the podcast by buying our original merch at bit.ly/lezmerch (use code lhospooky for 20% off your purchase through November 1st!) and purchasing our original Lez-ssentials songs for as little as $1 each on Bandcamp. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. You can find your fav tol and smol hosts Ellie & Leigh at @elliebrigida and @lshfoster respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's hang out.

0:02.5

Let's hang out.

0:03.4

And let's talk about what lessons are found.

0:06.0

Let's hang out.

0:06.9

And let's listen to two heads me and shout.

0:09.6

Let's hang out.

0:13.9

Hey, everyone.

0:14.9

Welcome back to Let's Hang Out.

0:15.8

I'm Melleie Bridgeta.

0:16.8

And I'm Lee Holmes Foster.

0:18.0

And here's what's happening this week.

0:20.5

This week in the Lesham.

0:25.0

This week in the Lesham is a place where you can touch base each episode about things going

0:28.0

out with a podcast or otherwise.

0:30.3

And we'd like to remind you in season eight, we have all kinds of Patreon bonus episodes.

0:33.9

There are 23 episodes so far up on our Patreon because today our episode on Saltburn

0:39.2

has just come out. So if you want to listen to that, you can listen to it at bit.ly slash Les Patreon.

0:43.5

We had some, some thoughts on Saltburn. Saltburn is quite thought provoking. We had some real-time

0:49.2

processing happening. It was great. In other, in other podcast news, we want to remind everyone that we are in the midst of planning our next trip.

0:58.0

Ellie and I have sort of narrowed down the locations we believe to either Bordeaux in France with like some stops in Paris or Barcelona.

1:07.0

So if you have strong feelings on either one of those and you want to let your voice

1:12.1

be heard, now is a great time to tell us because we are going to pick one and start actually

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