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Serial Mom (1994)

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

4.7931 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Keep an eye out for pussy willows and don't wear white after Labor Day because we're talking about John Waters' most "accessible" film, Serial Mom (1994).

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0:00.0

You have to control

0:02.0

You have to control yourself! And welcome back to horror queers.

0:27.6

We're talking, Chip, you know how I hate the brown word.

0:31.6

We're talking, be warned, she is armed and fucking nuts.

0:36.6

And we're talking, no, please, fashion has changed.

0:40.8

And I'm Joe.

0:42.0

And I'm Trace, and we're talking pussy willows, Dotty.

0:47.0

I love that we, like, at some point we're both going to have to try to do Kathleen Turner's voice, but I just cannot drop the octave down that low because that

0:55.9

voice is so husky. Just smoke a bunch of cigarettes like I did. Oh my God. No, sir. I will not.

1:03.5

Yeah, just smoke a pack of cigarettes and you'll be totally fine for like 10 minutes. Sure, a pack of

1:07.7

cigarettes and like an entire bottle of whiskey. Basically, yes.

1:11.3

Oh, yeah, the throat coat.

1:12.6

Absolutely.

1:14.0

But yes, everyone, we are discussing John Waters' ninth feature-length film Serial Mom from 1994,

1:21.0

starring the wonderful Kathleen Turner.

1:23.7

Yeah, this is the kind of movie where you think if John Waters wasn't a cult figure and this was a more mainstream, I mean, I know this is his most mainstream film of all, but this is the kind of performance that you think, in hindsight, this should have been nominated for a bunch of different awards.

1:40.6

Like the Oscars?

1:42.1

I think so. This is such an inspired performance.

1:45.5

Oh, the performance.

1:46.7

Okay, yeah, I could totally... At least a Golden Globe, right? Right? Yeah. Like, if Meryl Streep can get nominated for all of her... I like Meryl Street, but let's be honest, she gets nominated for a bunch of bullshit. And so does Nicole Kidman, like, if if this movie came out I want to say 15 years

2:02.0

later and yeah had this kind of thing going for it this would be nominated for shit just the thing

2:08.2

I'll talk about like kind of the road this film had to production obviously and the kind of like

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