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To Die For (1995)

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

4.7931 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Strap on your ice skates and check your makeup because we're talking Gus Van Sant's whip-smart satire 'To Die For' for its 30th anniversary! After all, you're not anybody in America unless you're on TV, right?

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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. We're talking, four letters begins with C, cold, C-O-L-D, cold.

0:32.9

We're talking, now if it rains or there's lightning or thunder, or if it snows, I have to jack off. And we're talking, now if it rains or there's lightning or thunder or if it snows, I have to jack off.

0:40.9

And we're talking, I believe that in our fast-moving computer age, it is the medium of television

0:46.5

that joins together the global community, and it is the television journalist who serves

0:51.4

as messenger, bringing the world into our homes and our homes

0:54.5

into the world. It has always been my dream to become such a messenger. I look to you,

0:59.9

gentlemen, now, to make that dream a reality. And I'm Joe. I'm Trace, Mr. Monologger, and we

1:06.9

are talking, it's nice to live in a country where life, liberty, and all the rest of it

1:11.0

still stand for something.

1:12.6

All the rest of it.

1:14.5

All the rest of it.

1:15.6

Everyone, we teased it last week.

1:17.0

I'm sorry, we announced it last week.

1:18.5

We are discussing Gus Van Sant's 1995 masterpiece to die for, starring Nicole Kidman in one of her best roles ever. Oh, boy. Yeah. This was a very

1:30.6

confusing time for me in the mid-90s because I tease this when we talked about Batman forever,

1:38.3

but Nicole Kidman in this period made me wonder what my sexuality was. I was having inklings about my persuasion

1:47.8

towards the male side of the equation. And every time I watch Nicole Kimman in this era,

1:53.2

I was like, something about this hair, something about this line delivery, something about the clothes.

1:57.9

I just like, I mean, oh, shocker, I'm a big old mo. But yeah, she, she and Kira Knightley invent it like Beckham. I was just like, what's going on? Kira Knightley and bented like Beckham. That is a wild comparison to like, to your experience with Nicole Kidman in this movie. One's a little androgynous and one is hyperfam. Yeah. So this, this movie was something I actually saw very late in life.

2:20.2

And when I say late, I mean, I want to say like after I was 30 because I, so the marketing, I remember the poster of the box art for this movie, you know? It's Nicole Kidman. She's like kind of like, sexy. sexy taking off her top a little bit and she's just looking at you um and so i thought

2:35.7

this was very much like an erotic thriller type movie for most of my life okay and i remember my

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