This week on Horror Heals, we’re serving glamour, gore, and a whole lot of gratitude with none other than the high priestess of horror drag herself—Peaches Christ! 🎃👑💋

From her locker full of Fangoria centerfolds to commanding the San Francisco Symphony stage as Pinhead with fla-tits (you read that right), Peaches takes us on a full-throttle ride through her haunted, hilarious, and heartfelt journey. Along the way, we summon the spirits of John Waters, Divine, Elvira, Tim Curry, Heather Langenkamp, Adrienne King, Amanda Wyss, and Chloris Leachman—yes, all in one episode.

✨ Topics we sink our fangs into:

• Catholic schoolgirl horror and the bedroom that got a priest to do a blessing
• How Wes Craven and horror legends inspired survival and identity
• Peaches’ horror-soaked drag origin story—from Elvira to Frank-N-Furter
• Behind-the-scenes tea on meeting Tim Curry, working with Cassandra Peterson, and that iconic elevator moment with Nancy & Tina
• The legacy of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th
• Building chosen family through drag and the power of celebration over cruelty
• Creating immersive horror experiences like Terror Vault
• Why horror drag is finally breaking into the mainstream (hi, Boulay Brothers!)
• Hope, horror, and being loud in a world that’s trying to silence us

🎤 Plus: A tribute to Nancy Thompson, a love letter to Adrienne King, and one very rogue moment with Chloris Leachman that involves a wig and a lap.

This episode is a lovefest to horror, queerness, drag, and the radical act of being exactly who you are—even when the world tells you not to. So don your fiercest wig, light your cult candles, and get ready to feel seen, slayed, and celebrated.

🩸 Episode Trigger Warning: We talk about bullying, religious trauma, political rhetoric, and safety for queer and trans communities in today’s climate—with love, strength, and dark humor.

👑 Guest Bio: Peaches Christ

Peaches Christ is the cult movie queen, horror hostess, drag icon, and all-around underground legend whose work has helped redefine the intersections of horror, queerness, and theatrical spectacle. Known for her long-running Midnight Mass movie series in San Francisco, Peaches has spent decades paying reverent, riotous tribute to cult classics and the queer creatives behind them.

She’s the mastermind behind immersive horror experiences like Terror Vault, the writer-director of the beloved horror-comedy All About Evil, and a celebrated performer who’s taken the stage everywhere from haunted attractions to highbrow symphony halls (often in Cenobite couture).

A drag mother to icons like Jinkx Monsoon and Bob the Drag Queen, Peaches is also a champion of horror’s healing power, creating space for misfits, Final Girls, and everyone in between to feel seen—and fabulous.

From her early days as a horror-obsessed Catholic school kid to rubbing elbows (and elevator rides) with Elvira, Tim Curry, John Waters, Heather Langenkamp, and Adrienne King, Peaches’ story is proof that when you embrace the strange, the world gets a whole lot more beautiful.

🌐 Find Peaches Christ Online:

• 💻 Website: peacheschrist.com
• 🧛 Instagram: @thepeacheschrist
• 🩸 Twitter/X: @PeachesChrist
• 🎧 Listen to the Midnight Mass Podcast: Midnight Mass on Spotify
• 👻 Terror Vault (Haunted Attraction): terrorvault.com

Kendall and Corey: Peaches, welcome to the podcast.

Peaches Christ: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Kendall and Corey: Absolutely. We go back a few years and I just kind of wanted to start off, asking you, how do you feel about our theory that horror movies and horror culture is good for our mental wellness?

Peaches Christ: I have Long felt that way. I think I was lucky in that I was such a, horror obsessed child that by the time I was a teenager, it was already concerning to the adults in my life. I remember my parents getting a call from sister Phyllis, at my Catholic high school, because she was very concerned about the images that I had hung up in my locker, I remember my parents bringing our priest up to my bedroom behind my back, to bless it.

Peaches Christ: And he was shocked by all the, you know, fangoria centerfolds and, you know, horror movie posters. and I say that because it was through reading interviews with the masters of horror. And I believe. It was Wes Craven, quite frankly, who talked a lot about how horror was the way that he dealt with the real world, and that as a sensitive, empathic person, he would often be overwhelmed by the cruelty of humans, and that horror was a way to deal with it.

Peaches Christ: And I thought, About how much that connected to me, especially at that time, you know, I was a sissy in high school, Catholic high school in Maryland, getting bullied. You know, I was an outsider. I was an other, why did I love horror so much? I knew that I loved it from a young age.

Peaches Christ: But when I realized that it was actually helping me cope, You know, that was really important. And to this day, I, you know, now that I've lived a life, you know, celebrating horror, creating horror, you know, living in it, I can honestly say that there is a therapeutic part to it.

Kendall and Corey: Absolutely. Was it always a given then that Peaches was going to have some horror elements to her?

Peaches Christ: Oh yeah. I mean, because before my love of drag, my foundational love of all the stuff that, has made. up what I am as an adult. my first real obsession was horror. before I understood drag and then, you know, I can look back and go, okay, my first drag queen, obsession was Elvira.

Peaches Christ: I just didn't know that she was a drag queen. You know, I didn't really get it. I think I knew inherently that Cassandra Peterson and Paul Reubens weren't, The characters they played, but because they could exist outside of a singular movie, they could exist on TV shows, they could exist on talk shows, they could go to red carpet premieres.

Peaches Christ: It wasn't until later that I was like, Oh, that's like a drag persona. You know, that's a persona that you adopt and carry with you your entire life. and then it was. Obviously, Frank N. Furter and the discovery of Rocky Horror that, you know, really opened my mind to a different kind of drag world, a different kind of drag community.

Peaches Christ: but the most powerful, of course, was growing up in Maryland and discovering John Waters and Divine and the Dreamlanders and becoming obsessed with their movies and really, You know, when I look back on it now, I go, Oh, my God, my, my holy triumvirate of drag was, was fused with transgressive horror movies, cult movies, you know, all three of them, you know, have those elements.

Peaches Christ: so I feel really lucky

Kendall and Corey: Yeah.

Peaches Christ: gateway into drag was actually through horror and through cult movies. So peaches was born as this sort of, you know, I want to do this. But it wasn't even a question that she would be, horror.

Kendall and Corey: right,

Peaches Christ: Because for the listeners, I'm sitting here in full glamour goth drag.

Peaches Christ: Is it still surreal then that you've gotten to work with these people who are sort of your heroes? I mean, you know, John Waters and Alvaro.

Peaches Christ: Yes, and most recently Tim Curry, you know, so I mean, it's beyond surreal, sadly, by the time I was in a position to meet people that I admired so much, Divine had passed. and, you know, I remember Maryland. Was devastated, you know, and, and that was also really important.

Peaches Christ: She gave me the gift of in her passing in many ways of showing me that there were people in my own community who cared about people like this, because I was in a bubble. I was growing up in Annapolis. I was not exposed to as many open minded people, you know, growing up in a Catholic community as one.

Peaches Christ: But because Divine was such a Maryland hero, her passing was such a public thing that it was really a beautiful thing. That being said, meeting John as a college student, John is the reason I'm in San Francisco sitting here right now. It was John who, as a Penn State student making a movie called Jizz Mopper, John was sort of my validation in many ways, because there was a faculty there that didn't really get what I was trying to do.

Peaches Christ: John told me about the Cockettes and the underground film scene here in San Francisco and explained that he and Mink and Divine would live here. and I thought I would come here and be here before I would go to New York or LA. meeting him. Was crucial in terms of just everything.

Peaches Christ: Everything I am. I didn't become friends with john until about a decade later when I had been doing midnight mass for about 10 years. Before that, I was just the student who brought him to Penn State, You know, but then when I had become Peaches Christ and, you know, I had done this thing for 10 years and I had worked with Mink because Mink Stoll was the first celebrity to ever come and do Midnight Mass.

Peaches Christ: I was in a position to invite John, not knowing that John never did anything with drag queens. it was his assistant later who kind of called me and said, this is extraordinary. we get letters and emails from drag queens all over the world. He will never, ever replace Divine.

Peaches Christ: he isn't interested in drag in that way. but he's interested in what you do. And I think it's because I grew up in Maryland and I was interested in all the things he was. I mean, in many ways, he was my real film school. Shock Value was my Bible. I went to Penn State.

Peaches Christ: That's not where I learned about Russ Baier or Herschel Gordon Lewis or Ted B. Michaels It was through the book Shock Value, which I read before I even got to Penn State. So yeah, John has been the most crucial influence. and Midnight Mass also is why I was able to, invite Cassandra before John invited Cassandra to be part of Midnight Mass.

Peaches Christ: And the first year she came and did it out of drag as Cassandra. And we did a big tribute and it was lovely. And then she called me and said, I want to, I want to come back as Elvira. You know, I mean, that was insane, And then we started working together and doing projects together and doing appearances together.

Peaches Christ: I obviously invited Mink Stoll and Cassandra to be in my first feature film. So that's a long way of saying I will never get used to it. I will always be a fan of these people. I was so fucking nervous a few weeks ago. Sorry if I'm cussing too much.

Kendall and Corey: fine.

Peaches Christ: was so damn nervous. I guess damn is a curse word.

Peaches Christ: Sorry. Anyway, I was so nervous meeting Tim Curry and working with Tim Curry because even at this stage in my life where you'd think, Oh, you've met these people. It doesn't change that child in you that was touched by their spirit and their work is still there.

Peaches Christ: Oh my God, Tim was, life changing for me and working with him and him being on stage and us doing a tribute for Tim was I feel like I already had the best night of my year, and it's march,

Kendall and Corey: Right. When I saw that announcement, I was so excited for you because I just knew that that was going to be a special night. I was a little jealous for myself because not able to go. And you know, SF sketch fest. That's 1 of the things I miss the most. And you've done some great, great stuff there.

Kendall and Corey: But boy, it would have been wonderful to be in that audience. But I just have to, it had to be like. So bizarre and just ah, just meet like laying eyes on him for The first time. what was that? What was going through your Head?

Peaches Christ: luckily I was able to go and meet with him ahead of the event which I always try to do because they meet Joshua out of drag and they meet peaches in drag and I am both things, you know I don't pretend that and actually meeting Cassandra and Paul Rubens in my adult life you realize they are Not totally acting, you know a big part of Pee wee is Paul, right?

Peaches Christ: And a big part of Elvira is Cassandra. And so I really have embraced that Peaches is this sort of exaggerated version of me. And so Peaches is, you know, this way for me to sort of unlock something, and give myself permission to be this thing that I don't think I would do, you know, without that sort of character.

Peaches Christ: but she's in me, you know? And so I wanted Tim to meet Joshua first. And I always have felt like that makes more sense because, I've done it both ways. I mean, sometimes, you know, someone's schedule only allows them to meet me as peaches. And you can tell that it's a different thing because they're trying to figure out what's underneath all that and what my agenda is and what my style is.

Peaches Christ: I remember once doing a show. with Maxwell Caulfield, the star of Grease 2, and he's so handsome and so sweet, and he's a straight man. And quite frankly, I don't do many shows with straight men. Or if I do, they're very much of our oeuvre. They very much get it. Bruce Campbell, you know, very, very easy to go on stage as Peaches and do a show with Bruce Campbell, because as much as I'm performing, so is he.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah.

Peaches Christ: offstage is the sweetest, most gentle, kind of quiet, you know. And you get on stage and he becomes Bruce Campbell. So I totally connect to that. Maxwell Caulfield is like a real actor who's so sweet, grew up doing theater, professional theater movies in England. He thought I was going to be like.

Peaches Christ: the meanest British drag queen, because that's what he was exposed to growing up. Panto and catty mean queens. And you could see on stage, he was so confused, you know, because I was so reverential to his performance and earnestly celebrating Greece too. he was used to people kind of like, Taking the piss, I guess, and making fun of it.

Peaches Christ: And that, that's not my style. I only celebrate movies I genuinely love. so I wanted Tim to meet me. And so we got to have lunch and that lunch was so crucial because, you know. One is that Tim, as you know, suffered a really severe stroke and it's affected his, physical abilities as far as even having a conversation.

Peaches Christ: And so it was really important that I not have to figure out those, you know, how we were going to connect, on stage, you know, because the audience would have felt that. So what was lovely is when we were on stage, I think there was this sort of confidence, but meeting him. At lunch, I was terrified, terrified.

Peaches Christ: And he comes up to the table and, I swear for a few minutes, I just felt like he was just staring at me, but it was clear that I needed to show him who I was, But we got there and the best part was the end of the night, he's holding my hand and his gratitude and him whispering in my ear, how talented he thought I was.

Peaches Christ: And sometimes I ask friends like John to do a pitch for me, you know, John is who got me Ricky Lake, you know, people like that. and I think what he does is, I know what he does. Cause he tells me, he says, who wouldn't love it? You know, you show up there and it's just an evening of gay worship.

Peaches Christ: Like she and her legions are just worshiping you. And it's yeah, that's what it is.

Kendall and Corey: So it's, you know, Oh, I'm so glad to hear that. It was. That you were able to meet with him ahead of time and kind of get that sort of comfort level because yeah, I think you're right. I think people in the audience might have picked up on any kind of strangeness. If you hit didn't have that opportunity.

Peaches Christ: I mean, anyone who's sort of, altered from what they remember them being. you know, I think is it's that jarring thing where, you know, I knew that we were going to run this giant reel, this huge performance, where they're going to see him as frankenfurter, they're going to see him.

Peaches Christ: So we actually made sure that even the end of the video, you know, focused. And showcased him receiving awards in his wheelchair that that they really understood that this is a huge life with a lot of, twists and turns and it sort of set the audience up, I think to understand that there was going to be an extra layer of patience with Tim and I, and they were, I'm telling you, you could have heard a pin drop,

Peaches Christ: Yeah. and these pregnant pauses were beautiful because it wasn't so much that Tim, you know, mentally wasn't, able to come back. It was the stroke, right? Like they understood that there was a physical, effect of the stroke. And, when Tim would say something, it was often witty and wicked and hilarious and short and sweet,

Peaches Christ: Tim Curry, you know, I mean, he read Annie and I loved it, you know, cause of course he celebrated Carol Burnett, quite highly. But, then he said, because he talked about how much he loved working with Carol Burnett. And then he paused and went, Annie, not so much.

Kendall and Corey: love that.

Peaches Christ: Yeah.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah, I was very nervous when I met him a few years ago but he has an immediate calming presence, Rocky Horror is so important to our history. Kendall and I did Rocky Horror for our first Halloween together, 20 years ago he was Frankenfurter, I was Eddie,

Kendall and Corey: he was genuinely asking questions and stuff, I thought it was going to be a quick, come in and take a photo but no, he shook my hand lovely smile and, it was just everything I could have asked for.

Kendall and Corey: I'm looking at a photo of us right now. We have a Rocky Horror little accent wall behind us.

Peaches Christ: gifts of getting to work with folks such as Tim Curry or John Waters or Mink Stoll or, or any of these amazing people is that they get to see and experience forever the effect their work has had on people.

Peaches Christ: There's only a few that have that impact on people and culture. And I mean, God, you, I mean, Rocky horror. It's, it's un, it's indescribably, huge, you know, the magnitude of the, the number of lives it's touched, you know, and the way that it's touched them as far as acceptance and. Not dreaming it, but being it.

Peaches Christ: So yeah, I think Tim, I hope he really enjoys that, you know, I think he does. I think you would know, we all have done conventions. We've all met people, you know, you know, when they care and when they don't, you

Kendall and Corey: sure. And I mean, I imagine he could, how could he not be touched when you see these really young kids now finding Rocky Horror for the first time they're finding clue, you know, it's, and there's just such a reverence for him. to see a 10 year old kid walk up, with

Kendall and Corey: Joy in their eyes. How could you not?

Peaches Christ: that, yeah, the audience for that tribute was totally cross generational in a way that I honestly did not expect. I didn't realize it until I was doing the show. Also, I didn't realize the impact he's had with all the animated voiceovers. I mean, we had, we did the costume contest and there were a number of people in costumes where I was like, What the hell is that?

Peaches Christ: You know, and it's because there's this whole generation that grew up with him on these animated tv shows and stuff It was fascinating and the number of and the diversity of frankenfurters that showed up. I mean, we're talking like young sexy tall black women dressed as you know 70s style frankenfurter with afro wigs and I mean It was perfection, and what was great is the way that the show was designed.

Peaches Christ: we had it so that he was part of two giant kind of interview chunks, but there was all this sort of, celebratory fanfare and tribute performances. And he was in this gorgeous green room where he was able to watch on a, like an HD monitor. And, and he, Esau at all, which is great, you know, because sometimes when someone's off stage and you're doing these tributes, depending on the theater and the stage, they miss a lot of it.

Kendall and Corey: you definitely know how to put on a show and I just saw an image just popped into my head. One of the times that we saw you live, was, Chloris Leachman taking your wig off.

Peaches Christ: Yeah. And you know, the audience did not, it was the first time I felt like the audience was sort of turning on one of the people I was. You know, and I could kind of feel the audience, at least some people in the audience didn't really like that she did that.

Peaches Christ: but I was, I was fine with it and I was trying to let the audience know I am fine with this. You know, I don't know if you remember, but then she sat on my lap,

Kendall and Corey: I do.

Peaches Christ: She sat on my lap holding my giant wig. And the reality of it is I had been warned by her manager before the show that she would attempt to do that.

Peaches Christ: I said, did she tell you she's going to do that? He said, no, but she is crazy. this is her, her own manager. Who's she's unpredictable and she will not. And she, she's going to derail the interview. She's not going to answer any of your questions and you're going to have to be ready for, you know, an improv.

Peaches Christ: Experience. So I actually had my dresser who was there that night. We went in and pulled out all the bobby pins that had been attached to my head. So when I was walking out on stage, I was trying to balance that thing in a way that normally I wouldn't and I was kind of like, okay, just keep it together because if it fell off before she took it off, that would be so much less, you know, satisfying.

Peaches Christ: So anyways, that's a little behind the scenes thing that did happen

Kendall and Corey: That's hilarious.

Peaches Christ: enough, exactly what he described is exactly what happened on stage. She didn't answer any question. She was gonzo. I loved it. I loved

Kendall and Corey: yeah, it was. It was amazing. one, and I've always appreciated, you've mentioned it, the style of drag that you do. it's not coming from a place of meanness. It's coming from a place of celebration. And I think that that has to sort of like, wash off on your drag children, because I've met both Jinx, Monsoon, and Bob the Drag Queen, and So nice and just genuine, like you can just, you know, when you meet people sometimes you can tell, are they putting it on or are they being genuine?

Kendall and Corey: And they're definitely Genuine people. you must just, attract that from the universe. I'm guessing the good, the good people,

Peaches Christ: I think, you know, like any Community, right? drag is, is there's so many different kinds of drag and there's so much drag around the world more than ever before. Right. And, I think that what you find is. The like minded, the like spirited, I should say, folks tend to, you know, gravitate towards each other.

Peaches Christ: And, I was really lucky that I grew up in San Francisco in a scene that was, you know, that prioritized creativity and, wildness. And even if there are scenes here that we don't connect with as horror Queens, such as like the Imperial court, which is very much, you know, more of a traditional pageant drag, but that's does a lot of fundraising for the community.

Peaches Christ: Of course, we gave birth to the sisters of perpetual indulgence. Of course we have. Drag brunch queens who death drop and look fierce and do, The modern pop songs we all get along, you know, we appreciate each other I show up and do imperial court events and the imperial court queens will show up if I ask them to we're friends It wasn't until I started traveling that I realized oh not all drag communities get along and Sometimes, just like in high school or anywhere else, cliques and things start to form and competition, amongst people.

Peaches Christ: I was lucky, you know, me and Heclina and, Sister Roma and Juanita Moore, you know, we were, we were kind of the Queen's, I guess you would say at the, one time that we're seen as the sort of top queens of San Francisco, you know, of course, we're much older now and younger queens have come along to replace us as they should, and most of us have gone on to do, other things.

Peaches Christ: but we were never Competitive in that way, believe it or not. I mean, I get jealous of heck Lena and she'd get jealous of me, but ultimately we helped each other. We showed up for each other. We did things together. I don't know. I think Jinx and Bob very much as a mother, naturally.

Peaches Christ: Experience what it's like to come and do a pizza show, which is really doing a San Francisco show, and jinx is from Seattle and, that's a sister city as far as the scene goes, Ben de la creme is certainly part of our drag family and, Bob being from New York, Bob has a much more, what's the word?

Peaches Christ: A stronger edge to her. You know, she, she's more likely to call a bitch out if you know what I mean. but, but Bob is love, you know, Bob is Bob is so wonderful and, and, and just love, and then there's a lot of, drag children that haven't become famous yet, as you Can imagine. you know, I have more, I feel like they always get neglected.

Kendall and Corey: Oh,

Peaches Christ: because, they just don't deliver.

Kendall and Corey: I love that we're seeing, horror drag coming more into the mainstream because it's not something that we saw a lot of. I mean, obviously you and Elvira and other folks, but like seeing, the Boulay brothers and their, style of drag kind of coming to the forefront.

Kendall and Corey: Cause that's something that the two things that Kendall and I immediately bonded over were horror movies and drag queens. So our Breakfast area is a full gallery wall of drag, and then we've got horror stuff all over the house. one of my favorite moments of living in San Francisco was seeing Peaches Christ dressed as Pinhead in a very violent way, performing at the symphony.

Peaches Christ: Yeah.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah.

Peaches Christ: I mean, the truth of that is, it was the first. And I thought last symphony event I would ever do. And the reason is I am invited to these spaces usually I enjoy being a disruptor, right? Like the fact that I have a career that's got, and I even think it's hilarious to call it a career, you know, that's hilarious to me because it was never, I never set out to have this be a career.

Peaches Christ: I didn't know how I was going to make money. I just knew that, to do the things I loved, I would probably have to have a job, And I did for many years. I ran movie theaters, but at least it was a job. I liked. I never thought of this, in that way. And so I think in many ways, things like being invited to do a show at the San Francisco Symphony and to do it with the screening of Rocky Horror and have a concert of horror movie music that I got to select and put on a program where I was able to invite the talent.

Peaches Christ: It was very fun. Clear to me that I wanted to invite people to the stage that, I felt belonged on that stage, but probably wouldn't be invited like Myself. you know, we had the shadow casts for Rocky. We had Latrice Royale, you know, I flew in and I thought, okay, I'm going to be so crazy that, they'll never have me back, but at least I will have been Peaches Christ on stage at Davie Symphony Hall and you're right, I wore.

Peaches Christ: I guess that worked out. That did not, that was not my intention, but it caught the eye of a Chicago conductor who since moved to, San Francisco, Edwin Outwater, and he called me and said, Hey, I think this is so cool What you've done. let's partner up and let's do shows together. So Ed, Edwin and I then formalized a relationship and we've now been doing symphony shows ever since.

Peaches Christ: Unfortunately, Symphony of Terror, which is one of them that you can buy, we have three shows that you can buy if you're a big fancy symphony orchestra. We have managers out of London who sell these things. one is a Christmas show,

Peaches Christ: one is a horror show and one is a pride show. So we have the pride show now booked. we're doing it in Oregon in June and we have the horror show. I don't think I could say yet we're negotiating it's coming

Kendall and Corey: That's so cool though.

Peaches Christ: you know, it's so cool. Right. And I'm doing, I was booked to do the Kennedy center in June, but I got fired by, you know, the orange Cheeto monster.

Peaches Christ: So we are moved to the Bethesda. Strathmore, which is this giant, gorgeous, beautiful venue. But as someone who was born in D. C., I have to say it, it was pretty thrilling to think that I was going to perform at the Kennedy Center.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah.

Peaches Christ: Maybe someday, once he's, out of our

Kendall and Corey: Exactly. When they take his all, you know, his craziness down out of there.

Peaches Christ: I love this trend. This is so dark, but I love this trend on, TikTok where kids are all talking about, you know, when it happens. It's and you, we all know what they're talking about. They're talking about we're going to be partying in the streets. And I'm like, Oh my God. But you know, yeah, that's where we're at, just kind of hoping for it to happen Soon.

Kendall and Corey: it's

Peaches Christ: Sorry to derail the podcast.

Kendall and Corey: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, we, we get it. We get it. it's just, I'm like, sort of reflecting back on this just great career that you've had. I mean, you've wrote and directed a horror film and you've done the symphony all sorts of stuff. So what is still on, what's in your horror bucket list Still?

Peaches Christ: Walkthrough horror show, you know, with a story, but also it has all the Cardi, you know, we have mazes with drop panels and stuff, but, you know, you just so happened to enter scenes where there are actors who are scripted and that luckily has become, a success.

Peaches Christ: Bucket. You know, I don't even know. I'm not a musician. I, I never even imagined. So I think now I'm just kind of open-minded to see , you know? Okay, what's next? yeah, I have some ideas. I'm working on a new movie that has some interest behind it. it's in the development phase, but this is one that I'm very passionate about.

Peaches Christ: I'm co-writing it with my podcast partner, Michael Ti. and I'm directing it and I really. It's very different from All About Evil, and I think it's really special, and it's something I'm really excited about, so I do hope that I get to make another movie, but, as you know, even John fucking Waters has trouble raising money, which is insane to me,

Kendall and Corey: Yes.

Peaches Christ: this movie, you know, it's just, really, are you kidding?

Peaches Christ: how is this Possible,

Kendall and Corey: Why is

Peaches Christ: I would love to have, to be honest, something special for television, and, I am pitching, a midnight mass TV show. if there's any interest out there, get in touch with me that Michael and I would host. it would be very similar to things I loved growing up as a kid.

Peaches Christ: I'm also. Pitching with a group of producers, a TV show, much like the bar rescue shows and the restaurant shows where they go in and help the failing restaurant, it would be that, but for haunted attractions. So I would show up, around the country and they would have, actors that were misbehaving or, stuff that wasn't working.

Peaches Christ: I love that idea. those are some projects I hope would see the Light of day.

Kendall and Corey:

before we get to our final question, I do want to say, Boston just became a sanctuary city for transgender folks. And so Peaches, you know, Boston's calling. Come on.

Peaches Christ: know, it feels like I'm in my safe little bubble. and we're also obviously a sanctuary city. We have the world's first. Transgender cultural district. And luckily I think locally we're on the right side of history, right?

Peaches Christ: Just like Boston is. but that being said, I will be probably looking at Boston as a place to perform more often, you know, because the reality of these things are like, Mink and I are going to Texas to do this Texas tour. And I have two mindsets around it. One is, we need to be there.

Peaches Christ: And we need to be, in these spaces. But the other is, there's a real concern for, I think probably because I'm traveling with mink just that we're well supported and well protected. even in San Francisco, I don't feel completely safe because the rhetoric is so horrible and the way that they're dividing us is so intense.

Peaches Christ: And the division is so key to their success. And they're not only dividing. You know, MAGA versus, non cult people because that that's been very, very effective,

Peaches Christ: let's call it out. if it happens, we know. J. D. Vance is not going to be the cult leader they need, if it happens, the cult will be in peril because you need a leader in order for a cult to stay, functioning. they've divided us, they've divided the queers, they've divided the progressives, the leftists, and they've done it brilliantly.

Peaches Christ: We're fighting with each other so much. Going to the non safe places is important, but it's also uncomfortable, you know, because you don't know what's going to, what's going to come out. And my biggest thing right now is to try to say, okay, let's really look at these divisions.

Peaches Christ: Let's all look at them and focus on what matters. Cause we're facing Nazis. they're not hiding it. So can we set aside our differences around whether we agree or disagree that trans people should be. able to play sports because we have a bigger fight ahead of Us.

Peaches Christ: fuck off. This is bullshit. They are fueling this. It doesn't matter. And it's how they are keeping themselves at the top. And it's how they are stealing from all of us. And it's, you know, it's brilliant. It's how they stay rich. They want us to Keep fighting. but yes, I want to come to Boston. In fact, I think At one time, there was talk of doing one of the big symphony shows there, so I don't know where that, that stands out.

Peaches Christ: Boston, for being a sanctuary city, it also has a very conservative reputation, Yeah. But that's why I was really excited to see that this week because it's yeah, that's

Kendall and Corey: that's a little feather in the cap. All right. The last question, Peaches, that we ask every guest on Horror Heals is. Who is your favorite final person, a survivor in a horror Film?

Peaches Christ: that you know, it's funny it's easy for me because it goes back to my childhood and the characters that first touched my heart and so the franchise that I was most obsessed with like many people my age, you know, I'm very Gen X and grew up in the 80s was a nightmare in Elm Street and Nancy And Heather Langenkamp, and her portrayal of Nancy, especially in that first film, you know, she was a little bit nerdy, but she was powerful, and she was relatable, and she was cool.

Peaches Christ: She was both nerdy and cool. And what I really love about Nancy is that she's a strong. Feminist woman who does not wait for her boyfriend to save the day. She goes to the library. She learns how to set booby traps She's the one who goes in and confronts the scariest person I'd ever seen So I think for me it'll always be Nancy and then when she shows back up, you know and dream warriors And then I think New Nightmare, you know, the fusion of Nancy and Heather Langenkamp is so powerful and so iconic.

Peaches Christ: And I actually, I don't know if you've seen the documentary Heather made called I Am Nancy. Oh my God, I love it. So I think Nancy, I think Nancy's my, will always be my favorite.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah. that's definitely mine. And I think you're, it's very much sort of a generational thing because you and I are only a few months apart. Kendall's a few years, older. And so his, his go

Peaches Christ: is it possible that you're older than us?

Peaches Christ: How's that even possible?

Kendall and Corey: Trust me. I wonder sometimes it's like, Oh, there's a lot of spackle involved in

Peaches Christ: So, okay, then Kendall, who's yours? is it Laurie Strode? I mean, you know, I'm wondering like who, who comes before Nancy, I guess, Laurie Strode,

Kendall and Corey: I've always vacillated between trying to pick my favorite fan franchise and it will always be between Friday the 13th and Halloween I love Jamie Lee Curtis and it's almost like I revere her so much that I'm like, it can't Be her Adrian King is an angel sent from heaven.

Kendall and Corey: Adrian is my,

Peaches Christ: yeah, I've got to meet her through Michael Verati and I just love her so much. So plug for the Midnight Mass podcast. Listen, one of my favorite episodes we've ever done is our Friday, the 13th episode with Adrian King.

Kendall and Corey: She was one of our favorite guests on our show. We launched on Friday the 13th last year. of course, we had to have Adrian King and she was so good and. She's become a, you know, a friend to the show. she just, she's always liking my, our posts and stuff. She's just so awesome.

Kendall and Corey: So that's Kendall's it's really interesting to hear people's answers, but yeah, but yeah, definitely. Heather is mine. And so I'm going to put that out in the universe again, that we, she's like a dream guest. So might have to use that clip of you praising her to entice her.

Peaches Christ: I'll leave you with one story before we jump off. I know we're wrapping up. I was doing a horror convention with Elvira and Indianapolis and it was Friday night and they had us all in the same hotel, but they had the guests of the convention using sort of a staff elevator. and so we were.

Peaches Christ: In the elevator, she and I out of drag, you know, and the elevator is going down, the doors open and it's Heather Langenkamp and Amanda Wiss. So Nancy and Tina together step onto the elevator and I audibly gasp because I mean, it was, you know, mind blowing to me. You know, I will never not, like I said, I will never not be a fan.

Peaches Christ: So they react to my gasping because of course, I'm just now looking like just some obsessed fan. I think they're thinking, are we in the wrong Elevator? are we stuck in this elevator with a stalker? What's happening? And I say, and I stutter and go, Oh my God, I'm such a huge fan. Oh my God. I can't believe I'm just like so dorky.

Peaches Christ: Right. they kind of smile like, you know, OK, nice to meet you. But give me very much the fan treatment as you would, you know, because they're stuck in an elevator with me and Cassandra. I think doesn't like that. So she goes, this is peaches Christ, you know, and they're looking like, I don't even know that they knew, I mean, this is 15 years, 20 years ago.

Peaches Christ: I don't remember, but like they're, they're going, Oh, okay. You know, it didn't land quite the way I think Cassandra wanted it to. So then I say, and this is Elvira. And then they go, and then they have the reaction, you know, and they freak out because Elvira. And, and then it was kind of like, we got off the elevator and.

Peaches Christ: We had a bigger conversation in the comfort of a lobby. Elevators are uncomfortable.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah.

Peaches Christ: and it was just kind of this lovely, lovely experience that I'll never forget. you know, so I got to share an elevator with Tina, Nancy and Elvira.

Kendall and Corey: Isn't it funny? I would have assumed that Cassandra and Heather would have known each other, but maybe not.

Peaches Christ: No, no. I mean, that's the other thing, so that you would think there, these. groups, right? That there's all this overlap. You would think, I think the slashers are their own cult. You know, Adrian, Heather, all of those women, they do all know each other. And I don't know if you read that great book. the final girl, support group.

Peaches Christ: Have you read that?

Peaches Christ: Oh It's

Kendall and Corey: when we just.

Peaches Christ: Oh my God.

Kendall and Corey: We actually

Peaches Christ: That fabulous.

Kendall and Corey: Kendall's, was it your Christmas gift? It was. Adrienne lives in Oregon?

Peaches Christ: Oregon,

Kendall and Corey: yeah. and she got involved and donated some stuff to a really great, children's, charity thing, and so I got Kendall, I won one of the packages, and so an autographed copy of that book was part of the package, so we do have it.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah, we just haven't gotten into it.

Peaches Christ: so great. and it's based on their lives, the real women, even though he wrote characters. And if you listen to the audio book, it's Adrienne.

Kendall and Corey: Oh, yeah.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. Yeah.

Peaches Christ: It's fabulous. Yeah. so I love knowing that they have their own group, but like someone like Elvira is in a different group and her group is so interesting.

Peaches Christ: It's some of what you would expect, obviously all the burlesque, she knows Dita Von Teese and all those people. but also, it's a lot of people like Rob Zombie and folks who grew up Obsessed with her. that's her click is a little different.

Kendall and Corey: Yeah. For sure. Yeah. So it is really interesting to see how all these areas of gray kind of come Together. Peaches, it's been a joy. I knew it was going to be, but we adore you and we appreciate you taking the time to do this.

Peaches Christ: Thank you. Thanks for having

Kendall and Corey: For sure.