XRGC: Task Season Finale, History of Queer Horror, and Interview With Director Tina Romero
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of GROUP CHAT, Jason and Rosie are bringing in producer Ian to discuss the finale episodes of HBO’s “Task”, then we go to the XRV Scream Queens Joelle and Carmen for a discussion on queer horror, exploring why the genre is so intertwined with queer identity? Then Rosie and Carmen invite director Tina Romero on for a discussion on queer horror and her new movie “Queens Of The Dead”.
Queer horror mentions:
Carmen: “Silence of The Lambs” and “The Hunger”
Joelle: “Jennifer’s Body”, “Candyman (2021)” and “Interview With The Vampire”
Rosie: “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2” and “Bride of Frankenstein”
Jason: “Gingersnaps” and “Shiver”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:08.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:12.6 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. |
| 0:16.0 | And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:20.5 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:27.6 | Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.1 | Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for Task, the finale of Task, and some notable queer horror classics. |
| 0:45.0 | You are warned. |
| 0:46.1 | Thank you. Hello, my name is Jason Kitsapcio. |
| 1:04.4 | And I'm Rosie Knight. |
| 1:05.8 | And welcome back to X-ray Vision, the podcast, where we dive deep. |
| 1:08.5 | It's your favorite shows, movies, comics, a pop culture company from IHart podcast |
| 1:11.4 | where we're bringing you three episodes. |
| 1:13.9 | Week, Plus News. |
| 1:15.1 | Plus News. |
| 1:16.2 | In today's episode, we are back, and it is XRGC, which we love. |
| 1:21.9 | We love to have a little XRGC. |
| 1:23.6 | So in today's episode on the heels of our delightful Scream Kings, Matthew Lillit |
| 1:30.1 | Oreck, declaring their characters, Billy and Stew from Scream, the first husbands of horror. |
| 1:35.6 | And they said that on stage in Los Angeles, I believe, at the recent LA Comic-Con. And in |
| 1:40.8 | anticipation of Tina Romero, yes, the daughter of George Romero's queer zombie homage to her father. |
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