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DUNZO!

161: Sleepaway Camp with Vanessa Cordero

DUNZO!

Cloud10 and Troy McEady

Society & Culture

4.6959 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is dedicated to the most shocking ending in film history, and Vanessa Cordero from "The Bottom Bible" podcast is here to help make sense of it. Troy and Vanessa are breaking down the 1983 cult classic, Sleepaway Camp! They discuss everything from the unapologetic queerness of this film to it's over the top camp sensibility. They also give their theories on some of the more debated themes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dunzo. This is a podcast that explores hookups and

0:06.3

breakups of famous lovers and friends both real and fake and all the

0:11.1

discarded pop culture of yesteryear.

0:13.0

I'm your host'm gonna be honest. I'm more excited about this spooky episode than I have been so far. I am for many many reasons. For one thing I am joined by true friend of the pod Vanessa Cordero Vanessa how are you?

0:44.8

Hi I was very tired at the end of a very long work day but I have all my energy

0:51.9

back I'm on a Diet Coke High, we started talking about this a little bit and I'm back. I'm back baby.

0:59.1

I am so happy that you're here. For one thing I love talking about movies and TV with you already like I just feel like that's kind of our like our vibe

1:10.3

I think it's our thing and we haven't talked about a horror movie together. So this is a big deal for me and especially this one. I'm so glad we like lines intersected on this one because I didn't know I I like horror movies but I am also a chicken baby so I don't want any demon or haunting movies.

1:34.8

Even though I don't believe in any of it, it's still too real because I was brought up Catholic

1:39.8

and even though it's non-practicing it scars you for life.

1:42.6

I get it.

1:43.4

So I don't need demons and then haunting

1:46.8

like the conjuring and all those?

1:49.2

No, ma'am.

1:51.0

What's your, I don't need that? What's your choice genre, like your choice horror genre? My choice horror genre would probably be like scream like the zoo sort of like the the renaissance of horror where it's still

2:09.9

horror there's still scares but there's like a certain amount of humor, right?

2:16.3

And kind of like a smart type of snappy humor in it or what we did what we're covering today like yeah a true 80s

2:30.0

camp yeah not just because it's set at camp, but camp with a capital sea.

2:36.0

Yes.

2:37.0

The John Waters, like John Waters, like Magic Wand sort of waved over the whole production kind of vibe. Yes, camp and camp honey.

2:46.1

Campy camp. So we're talking about sleepaway camp today, which is, you know, for horror fans, this is a movie that I think means a lot to a lot of people.

2:58.0

It's one of those like, I wrote my notes that when I was a teenager and I discovered this movie, you know, I went through this whole period of like trying to watch like as many camp movies as I could like cult classic sort of like films that I thought would make me cool. I was like, this is a cult classic and people like it so I have to see it. You know what I mean? You go through that phase is like a young person. And this was one of those movies

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