The Fan (1981) feat. Michael Varrati
Horror Queers
Horror Queers
4.7 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 130 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.9 | Oh, so it's serious? |
| 0:19.1 | Oh, no, no, it's not serious. Nothing terminal. |
| 0:21.3 | It's just a touch of consumption. |
| 0:30.3 | And welcome back to horror queers. |
| 0:32.9 | We're talking, what is this bliss shit? |
| 0:35.7 | We're talking, I have all the necessary equipment to make you very, very happy. |
| 0:41.2 | And we're talking, has it occurred to you that she may have lesbian tendencies? And I'm Joe. |
| 0:47.7 | And I'm Trace, and we're talking, dearest bitch. See how accessible you are? How would you like to get fucked with a meat cleaver? |
| 0:54.8 | Oh my God. That line lives rent-free in my head since we covered this back in our editorial |
| 1:01.4 | column, back in what, like 2018? |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, yeah, it was before. I think it predates the podcast. So this episode on Edward Bianke's |
| 1:09.1 | the fan, the 1981 film, not to be confused with the De Niro one. |
| 1:13.7 | Not the De Niro Snipes one and not the John Travolta fanic one. |
| 1:16.9 | But this is 1981's The Fan. |
| 1:19.3 | And yeah, I mean, I hadn't revisited this since we covered it for that article series. |
| 1:24.9 | And yeah, forgot about that line. |
| 1:28.1 | It's a good line. |
| 1:29.2 | This is a fun one, right? |
| 1:30.9 | It's, I think it is an interesting beast. |
| 1:34.3 | It's not one that I would find myself particularly revisiting a lot, although there's a lot here that is very gay. |
| 1:42.7 | Oh, so gay, yes. I was thinking to me, this is a perfect double feature with the Eyes of Laura Mars. Okay, Joe, not going to lie. Because is there a pool scene in Eyes of Laura Mars, too? I don't think so. Okay, literally, I think in my head, even though we've covered the Eyes of Laura Mars, both in an article form and on this podcast, like, I think in my head, I thought the pool scene was in that movie, |
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