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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

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

4.7931 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Spit out that cherry pit and get ready to meet a horny little devil because we're discussing George Miller's 1987 adaptation of John Updike's satirical feminist(?) novel 'The Witches of Eastwick'!

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0:00.0

You have to control yourself.

0:10.0

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

0:26.5

We're talking, I prefer small.

0:29.0

Sam was huge, and there were times I could not face it.

0:32.1

We're talking, you're not even interesting enough to make me sick.

0:35.7

And we're talking dildos, anal intercourse. And I'm Joe.

0:41.2

And I'm Trace. And we're talking horny little devils in George Miller's The Witches of Eastwick

0:47.2

for our special episode for Chattanooga Film Festival. Indeed. Yes. How exciting. We're celebrating

0:53.2

pride with witches. With divas. Hello. Albeit, yes. How exciting. We're celebrating pride with witches. With divas, hello. Albeit, divas in a movie where they are not the stars.

1:02.0

I mean, are we surprised that Jack Nicholson gets top billing? No. No. But I'm honestly, I'm really happy we're able to discuss this because I feel like this has been kind of on a periphery for years

1:13.6

You know in the six years we've been doing the show, but it you know it doesn't scream horror even though there are horror elements to this film

1:20.1

But it sure does scream gay

1:21.7

It definitely does scream gay although I'm not going to lie

1:25.6

I definitely missed over the implied visual imagery of the

1:29.7

4G I was I was like this ballroom scene it's a lot of fun and then I'm like oh this is a stand-in

1:34.8

for them fucking yes it's weird like it's an R-rated film it earns the R rating for the dialogue

1:40.2

alone yeah it feels so horny but there's not really a lot on screen. Like, there's no fucking on screen. No, no. There's no lesing out. And I was disappointed. Well, yeah, no lesing out, which I feel like if you've remade this today, granted, there have been many attempts at re-adapting this story, which I find fascinating. But I feel like if you made it today, which I would love to see a remake of this. Yes. Who knows what actresses we put in it. But yeah, make it more queer. Do it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be interested to see what you pull out for the production history, but I do have a little bit on the book because the book is, strangely enough, a little more gay. Have you read the book? I've not read the book. I did. I read this way back in college. So it's been about 20 years. But yeah, definitely a book where it's like, this is not the same thing. They took a lot of liberties on adapting this book. Going as so far as to change the tone of the whole piece.

2:35.7

Yeah, I can see that.

2:37.3

I mean, I'm not really familiar with John Updike's work, so I don't know him as a writer.

2:42.2

But I have gotten the impression that he's gently misogynistic and gently homophobic.

2:49.4

Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. So do you remember the first time you saw this movie? Because admittedly, this is a movie that my dad talked about a lot growing up because obviously it had share in it. So yeah, but it was like, oh yeah, but I couldn't watch it as a kid. But it played on TV so much because it's easy to edit this for television.

3:07.8

So easy. Yeah, as you said, there's virtually nothing in here except for language. So you just

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