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The Horrors of Conformity in ‘Disturbing Behavior’ [Horror Queers Podcast]
BloodyFM Blog / Updated: April 16, 2025
Fluid Boys & Peckerheads.
It seems like just yesterday that we were doing a themed month on Doppelgängers and deception (it was actually last month), and while we concluded March with discussions of classics like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (listen) and The Stepford Wives (listen), we took a break for a week to look at David Fincher’s Panic Room (listen). Now, we’re heading back into the world of doppelgängers with a look at David Nutter‘s teenybopper version of The Stepford Wives in 1998’s Disturbing Behavior.
In the film, Steve (James Marsden) has just moved to the small town of Cradle Bay with his parents and sister (Katharine Isabelle), quickly realizing that there’s something off with his peers. The preppy clique known as the Blue Ribbons are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean living but, like the rest of the town, they’re a little too perfect.
When Steve’s misfit friend Gavin (Nick Stahl) mysteriously joins their ranks, Steve teams up with fellow misfit Rachel (Katie Holmes) to get to the bottom of the mystery and save the town’s youths before it’s too late.
Episode 329: Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Self-mutilate this, fluid boy, because we’re talking Blue Ribbons and hack jobs in David Nutter‘s teenybopper version of The Stepford Wives in 1998’s Disturbing Behavior!
Join us as we go all in on this film’s extremely troubled production (seriously, it’s bad!) before diving into the plot of this extended episode of The X-Files.
Plus, mathematics vs. moments, peckerheads, some well-earned praise for Nick Stahl and test screening after test screening after test screening (after test screening).
