Spooky Doings: Peaches Christ

About this episode

Rick welcomes Peaches Christ to discuss horror, fandom, and their shared interests in camp and kitsch.

On this episode, Rick welcomes the fantastic Peaches Christ & they instantly hit it off. We get into how Peaches' love of horror was factory installed, Rick compares her to Jello Biafra, fandom, meeting your idols, camp, kitsch, our mutual religious upbringings & more. We also have a delightful digression via a text from Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira, Rick getting into John Waters later in life, Peaches' friendship with Mink Stole, our love of final girls, Rick's privilege of seeing female nudity via horror & our mutual love of Showgirls! Please subscribe, review & give us that 5 star boop!

People in this episode

Host: Rick

Guest: Peaches Christ

Topics covered

• horror fandom
• camp culture
• female nudity in horror
• final girls
• celebrity friendships
• religious upbringing

Keywords

• Peaches Christ
• horror
• fandom
• Showgirls
• final girls
• camp
• Jello Biafra
• Cassandra Peterson
• Elvira

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Showgirls

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