S2E20: DISGUST - Dolores Quintana on The Sadness (2022)
Content warning: discussions of mass shootings, (child) murder, rape, cannibalism, COVID-19, long COVID, death, viruses, amnesia, misogyny, racism, police violence, sexual assault, and physical assault.
On this episode of The Beauty of Horror, Chandler talks with horror writer, journalist, and actor Dolores Quintana about the numerous disgusting horrors of THE SADNESS (2022)!
They talk about how Dolores got started into social justice activism as a child, writing school essays about George Romero’s influence on horror, how a profound fear of something can end up drawing you into it, many different types of zombie apocalypses in film, and, of course, aesthetics.
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Instagram: @doloresmquintana
Interview with Rob Jabbaz for Fangoria
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Mentions
Referenced Beauty of Horror episodes
- Season 2, episode 16: Brian Keiper on The Fly (1986)
Literature
- Danse Macabre, by Stephen King
- Crossed, by Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, David Lapham, Si Spurrier, Kieron Gillen, and others.
Films and TV
- Dark Star (1974)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Martyrs (2008)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- The Girl with All The Gifts (2016)
- “Rick and Morty”: A Rickconvenient Mort (2021)
- 28 Days Later (2002)
- The Walking Dead (2010)
Music by Karl Casey (White Bat Audio)
Cover Art designed by John Green (JRGDrawing)
Edited by Aviva Dassen
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