Justin Chang

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1,567 appearances 50 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 2d ago

Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 27 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 5.

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Noting that in the movies, we respond to sex and horror on a pure visceral level.

True to its title, Teenage Sex and Death is fascinated by the connections between what excites us and what scares us.

It's no surprise when Chris and Billy begin to explore their own growing feelings for each other.

Their sex scenes are played for some wry humor.

Anderson has been an LGBTQ plus icon for decades, since her days on the X Files.

But there's also a genuine warmth and tenderness here that builds on the actor's natural chemistry.

Both characters, it turns out, have had their own physical and psychological hang ups about sex, but

And the movie's most bracing element is the way it lets them confront those issues together.

In Chris's case, that means exploring the voyeuristic and violent fantasies that drew her to the Camp Me Osma movies in the first place.

There's a sly paradox at play here that I think more than a few horror aficionados will relate to.

A boudoir slathered in blood.

can suddenly become the safest of spaces.

Schoenbrunn is a madly ambitious talent.

Deconstructing the nature of genre one moment and channeling an uneasy Lynchian mood the next.

At times they run the risk of stretching the film's many, many ideas past the point of redundancy.

And there's one set piece.

A killing spree from Camp Miosma, ironically set to a hit ninety song.

that for many will be the movie's gory highlight.

Though I checked out of it pretty early on.

Perhaps I was impatient to get back to Chris and Billy.

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