The Devious Divas at the Center of ‘Death Becomes Her’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Now, a warning.

After wrapping up October with discussions of horror classics like Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (listen), Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (listen) and Kevin S. Tenney’s Night of the Demons (listen), we’re checking in with two of cinema’s fiercest divas in Robert Zemeckis‘ Death Becomes Her (1992).

In Death Becomes Her, novelist Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) loses her fiancé Ernest (Bruce Willis) to movie star and former friend Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep), she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Madeline, desperate to one-up her former rival, is offered a mysterious potion that allows her to look young and beautiful forever, but she soon discovers that immortality has a price.
Episode 306: Death Becomes Her (1992)
Spoon that icing out of the can and get ready for a lot of time jumps because “it” is awake in Robert Zemeckis‘ Death Becomes Her (1992). It’s a smorgasbord of bitchery and high fashion in this delectable black comedy.

Join us as we marvel at the Oscar-winning special effects that are anything but “cheap” in this hilarious film starring two of Hollywood’s greatest actresses (Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn) and a scene-stealing Bruce Willis.

Plus: fat suits, rock-like tits, floating nuns, beekeeper couture, and sex. Sex. Sex. En garde, bitches!

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