A Warning from ‘Serial Mom’: No White After Labor Day [Horror Queers Podcast]
A Killer Satire.
In August we’ve already been to the beach with Robert Lee King’s camp classic Psycho Beach Party (listen) and to Australia with Peter Weir’s 1975 adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (listen). Now it’s time to head to the suburbs of Baltimore to tackle Serial Mom, John Waters‘ satirical take-down of true crime and fashion faux-pas.
In the film, Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is a regular, happy housewife and mom. She sorts her recycling, attends PTA meetings, and is an avid bird-watcher with her husband Eugene (Sam Waterson).
She’s also a compulsive serial killer who has no qualms about dispatching an offending neighbor or passing acquaintance for the smallest infraction. If you’re stealing parking spaces, refusing to rewind video cassettes, inferring that her son Chip (Matthew Lillard) likes horror movies too much, or ditching her daughter Misty (Ricki Lake) for a hotter model (Traci Lords), you’re about to feel Beverly’s wrath.
And God help you if you wear white after Labor Day!
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Episode 348: Serial Mom (1994)
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).
Featuring an all-time performance by Kathleen Turner and the usual Waters’ stable, this satire of true crime and horror films is a great introduction for Dreamland novices.
Plus: the best comedic bits, a primer on Patty Hearst, more of Trace’s favorite Waters films, and why you do not want to mention Annie around Joe.
Cross out Serial Mom!
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