Gretchen Felker-Martin
Appearances
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yes, good God. The scene where she's sniffing her pussy in the bathroom. Yeah. Come on. That's like, it's so real. You know, who has not been that dyke? Who among us has not sniffed a body on this person?
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
His face just gets better every year.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It's awesome.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. She did Saint Maud, which I also love. Love that one.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I really enjoyed Cuckoo.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I didn't see it coming.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Like, I don't even know how... I mean, in a lot of ways, it's like a straightforward creature feature. Okay. But it's so specifically situated. It's like so concerned with sound and with particular kinds of German culture. Yeah. It's creepy. Tillman Singer, I think, is German and... I grew up next to a German family and they're exactly like that. Just like weirdly manic and punishingly unfun.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
What?
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Really? And they run into something that's hunting them.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It is so good. It is so scary.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Superficially, I would say it's similar to Prey, but it's doing very different things.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Just incredible.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I have to confess, I am a long-standing The Terrifier hater.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
All right.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I will do that. The first two are absolutely... I will do that for you. Literally no one else could compel me to this.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
That's fantastic. And you know, I have to say... Even if I don't personally like it, I'm always glad to see the freaks win a round.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
What are we at? Eight?
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
All right. The first omen. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. If I'm like rolling back over this, I might even move it up the list. It was so good. I was shocked by how good it was.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, that really got me. Nell Tiger Free, who I think before this had only... ever done like a bit part on game of Thrones is so fucking good.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. And you know, another, another fantastic horror movie directed by a woman. Um, it's, it's been an absolute banger year for them.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I can't remember her name, unfortunately. And The Devil's Bath is also co-directed by a woman. Oh, that's right.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Women do. It's a year of women's wrongs. Yes.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
This will be number nine. We've actually got two more. That's all right. That's all right. Let me see. Got my little list here. Number nine would be the Vordelok.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
So cool. I was so impressed. I was so impressed.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Just like... First of all, it's actually about things. Yeah. You know, I was I heard like the conceit of the monster as a puppet. And I was like, oh, this will be like a neat little, you know, showcase for someone's craftsmanship. And the puppet is great. And the decision to have the characters treat the puppet like it's a normal human being. Terrifying. It's so scary.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I'm actually in Michigan visiting my girlfriend.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
And after three... Are we sure? Are we sure that's dad?
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, it really does work. It's so surprising.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
And it's, you know, it has some like really sharp, interesting things to say about gender and sexuality in class too.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I love the protagonist is like this ridiculous fop who, you know, accidentally falls in love with a cross-dresser.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, he does, which is really impressive. Yeah, he's fabulous. Fabulous film. Just a great vampire movie. Yeah. And I would probably give my final slot to Infested. Oh, ooh.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I do reside in Worcester, yeah. Okay.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, just a movie that made me want to get into bed, tuck the covers in at every corner and never touch the floor again.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It's like... Yeah, there's no contest between this and the next scariest spider movie.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Oh, it's my favorite. It's great. It's a dump, but it's my dump.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Ooh! Oh, it's so scary. It's so scary. The effects are so good.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
They're like those little foam caplets you throw in the bath and they turn into a rhinoceros.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
And it's like, Oh God, it's so nasty. It just, it, you know, in so many ways, insect horror is all about the fear of being penetrated because they're small enough to do that. And this movie just plays with that so cleverly and remorselessly. It wants you to feel bad. It wants you to develop a phobia.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
No, it's under my own name, Gretchen Felker Martin.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yes, I can. I can finally talk about it. Lily Wachowski and I are adapting Manhunt for television.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Over the moon. I'm over the, I could never have imagined this would happen. And if it did, I certainly wouldn't have imagined it happening with someone as incredible and as influential to me personally as Lily. She's just, she's been amazing to work with.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, we've certainly got a lot of hurdles ahead of us, but I'm really hopeful it'll get picked up.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I definitely watched worse movies than this, but I think the one that got me personally angriest was Alien Romulus. Because first of all, you do not fucking dig up my boy Ian Holm with this AI bullshit and make me watch his janky computer animated face jerk around for an hour and a half. And second of all, what happened to the back half of your movie?
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
You had a whole script for 45 minutes and then it just blows out the fucking airlock and there's nothing.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. I mean, don't bother. Okay.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I hated that movie.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I felt like a, I felt like an absolute fucking lunatic watching people call it smart. Yeah.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Eating that weird breakfast.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. Yeah, just like a really incurious, dull movie that keeps going with a format that's not actually doing anything after the first twist.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Absolutely. I've got two for you. One, Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris. This is a book about a Mi'kmaq indigenous woman who is super, super, super depressed after her estranged father's death. And her pushy white partner sends her to this art residency on the edge of a lake, and she has this complete and total breakdown.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
There's fungal horror, there's like nasty, fucked up animals, and it's so cloying and claustrophobic and upsetting. I really dug it.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
And my second recommendation is Augustina Baz Sharika's Tender is the Flesh, which I think... doesn't have real competition for the best horror novel of the past 10 years. Really? It is astonishing. It has one of the greatest final lines in recent fiction. It's brutal. It's nasty. Is it cannibalistic? Yeah. It is. It is. It's about, it's about institutionalized cannibalism in the future.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I am updates only on Twitter, but you will find out what I'm working on there. And I'm scum believable or just my own name there. And same on blue sky.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Thank you so much for having me.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It was... A real feel bad classic.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, so The Devil's Bath is set in the German Middle Ages, and it's about the historical practice of suicide by proxy, in which women who were going through really intense mental illness and...
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
were suicidal because they were so afraid of going to hell after committing suicide instead they would go and commit a mortal sin and then confess immediately so that they could be absolved and then executed by the state and the most common crime was infanticide or murdering a young child
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. It is so. No, I mean, it's.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It's a great system you've built there, guys.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, absolutely. If that's how you believe the world works, that's what you should do.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
You both go to heaven. Great. Oh, my God. That ending scene is so upsetting. It's so nasty.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
We're going best to worst.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. Which is just like so mind-meltingly ghoulish.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
What an awful... awful picture of like celebrity obsession and depersonalization and desensitization to the suffering of other people.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. That actress is really doing something really, really special. Yes. Disturbingly special. She's such a great combination of like normatively, marketably beautiful and just obviously insane.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I would have to say my number three spot goes to I Saw the TV Glow.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Oh, my God. So it's sort of like, it's by Jane Schoenbrun, who did We're All Going to the World's Fair. And they just do such a beautiful job sketching this portrait of someone who realizes as a teenager that... she's trans and then just stagnates and never emerges from that cocoon and becomes this miserable, self-minimized nothing of a person. It's also really sweet and hopeful and beautiful.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Some really horrific special effects.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
oh my god okay so next i gotta what that's on my list what's what's next i would i people would probably fight with me over whether you could classify the whole thing as is horror but certainly the second entry is straightforwardly horror and i think you could you could make a case for the whole thing kinds of kindness the newest uh yorgos lentimos movie i I was blown away.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I really liked Poor Things last year. I really enjoyed it. And I thought this blew right past it.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah. Interesting. Just incredibly smart, incredibly enigmatic, really unafraid of presenting mysteries and then just walking past them. Yeah.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I love her.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I mean, when. I want to turn on my TV. I want to have to pick between Hong Chao movies. Yeah.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It's incredible. It's so wild. That's incredible.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It's weird.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Oh, it's very weird. It feels in a lot of ways like sort of a great mid-century short fiction collection, you know, by G.K. Chesterton or like if O. Henry went insane.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Oh, it's so good.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
That's just another thing I really love about Yorgos Lanthimos is that he's just really unashamedly horny.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
And as a freak, I appreciate that.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
It is. Substance is here. The substance is, in fact, my number five pick.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Fucking love this movie so much, Gretchen.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
I had such a good, listen, it does, you know, like what are they trying to say with her eating all that food and stuff? Right. What does that mean? Who cares? Who cares? A great movie can have one nonsense failure and the substance is great. It is so mean. It is so dumb. I love it.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
The beginning, I was a little... I was a little hesitant getting in. And then we got to the Margaret Qualley scenes and immediately the director just starts treating her like she's a living blow up doll with like no humanity, no interiority. And I started to see what they were doing. And I was like, Jesus Christ, this is great. These people are totally empty and dead. There's nothing.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
You know who really blew me away, though, was Dennis Quaid. Ugh, that fucking shrimp.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Just the most revolting performance I've ever seen.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Nasty. Oh, God. His metal heels. Yeah. The smile. The horrible tan. Yeah.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Yeah, I mean, you know, that's like the whole movie is just like, wow, I guess we're just going to deform and terrorize and murder ourselves in service to the dumbest thing imaginable. And we'll feel nothing about it. You know, we won't be happy.
The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cornucopia of Horror with Katya
Oh. I would say next is probably Love Lies Bleeding. I loved this movie. Katie O'Brien and Kristen Stewart. Amazing chemistry. It's very funny. It's nasty. It has really unexpected moments of bizarre hyper-violence.