‘Panic Room’ Is a Top Tier Popcorn Flick [Horror Queers Podcast]

Popcorn Fincher. After a month of doppelgängers and deception, including discussions of cam girl thriller, Cam (listen), 1978 alien invasion Invasion of the Body Snatchers (listen), and the original The Stepford Wives (listen), Trace and I are ready to decompress with a simple, elegant David Fincher title. In 2002’s Panic Room, Jodie Foster plays Meg, a recently […] The post ‘Panic Room’ Is a Top Tier Popcorn Flick [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Apr 7, 2025 - 14:43

‘Panic Room’ Is a Top Tier Popcorn Flick [Horror Queers Podcast]

Popcorn Fincher.

After a month of doppelgängers and deception, including discussions of cam girl thriller, Cam (listen), 1978 alien invasion Invasion of the Body Snatchers (listen), and the original The Stepford Wives (listen), Trace and I are ready to decompress with a simple, elegant David Fincher title.

In 2002’s Panic Room, Jodie Foster plays Meg, a recently divorcee who moves into a posh townstone (town home meets brownstone) with her pre-teen daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Unbeknownst to them, the eccentric recluse who owned the property before them left a large fortune in the titular room’s safe…and there are three opportunistic thieves who will do nearly anything to get the cash.

What follows is a cat and mouse thriller as idiot Junior (Jared Leto), sympathetic Burnham (Forest Whitaker), and wild card Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) try to break in while Meg and Sarah attempt to keep them out. Will the thieves get what they want or will the women persist? You’ll find out by the end of the night!

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Episode 328: Panic Room (2002) feat. Cameron Scheetz

Monitor your blood sugar and watch the motion sensor lasers because we’re diving into David Fincher’s Panic Room (2002), along with Queerty‘s Cameron Scheetz.

We think this David Fincher “popcorn” flick doesn’t get enough respect, particularly for queer leads Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart.

Plus: a scary Dwight Yoakam, Leto’s cornrows, slow motion set pieces, and the film’s troubled production history which includes…Nicole Kidman?!

Cross out Panic Room!

Coming up on Wednesday: We’re checking out the ’90s teen thriller Disturbing Behavior, which got the studio hack job treatment right before its 1998 release.

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