From placing the fright in your wig as a part of Huluween or addressing interior demons on her OUTv present, Jackie Beat is aware of a factor or two about scary – and he or she shares that spooky data with ‘The Sound of Halloween.’
Boo! It’s Halloween! All through October, HollywoodLife is operating The Sound Of Halloween. On this month-long function, a few of your favourite stars and scars of the music, motion pictures, tv, and popular culture worlds decide songs that needs to be in your Halloween 2022 playlist. With horror extra mainstream than ever, there’s a variety of songs that may make your Halloween a scream. Serving to to kick off the sequence (which is a sister to this 12 months’sThe Sound of Satisfaction) is drag icon Jackie Beat.
The spooky season is filled with Jackie Beat. She helmed the Huluween Dragstravaganza Selection Particular, co-starring and co-writing the occasion that options Monét X Change, Ginger Minj, Woman Bunny, Selene Luna, Landon Cider, Jujube, Manila Luzon, Mo Coronary heart, and Mario Diaz. The second episode of Jackie Beat’s Dr. Jackie: Unlicensed Psychotherapist featured appearances from Alaska Thunderf-ck, Roz Hernandez, Drew Droege, Sam Pancake, and a particular cameo from the queen of Halloween herself, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson. The 6-part sequence premiered on OUTtv on Sept. 19 and can conclude on Halloween. Within the meantime, take a look at what Jackie has deliberate for the season and her choices for The Sound Of Halloween.
Jackie Beat’s Halloween Playlist Picks
Ennio Morricone, “Magic & Ecstasy” (From the movie Exorcist 2: The Heretic)
Editor’s Notice: resulting from Morricone’s “Magic & Ecstasy” not being on streaming, Snakefinger’s model will act as a stand-in. Proof why you must nonetheless purchase bodily media.
Bloodrock, “D.O.A”
Flock of Seagulls, “Nightmares”
HollywoodLife: What's your most distinguished Halloween reminiscence? When somebody says “Halloween,” what’s the very first thing that jumps into your thoughts out of your previous?
Jackie Beat: I bear in mind dressing like Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Journey for the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. It’s certainly one of my favourite motion pictures, and it was truly an ideal alternative for newbie drag as a result of she’s a multitude! I had a life preserver round my neck, a HAPPY NEW YEAR hat on my head, and walked round in just one shoe!
What do you suppose would be the hottest Halloween costume this 12 months? What SHOULD be, in your thoughts?
Perhaps there shall be a variety of Queen Elizabeths? If that's the case, I hope they a minimum of make her a zombie! However for my part, everybody ought to go as Jennifer Coolidge‘s character on White Lotus!
Do you've any specific October/Halloween traditions?
I hate to say it, however most drag queens think about Halloween ‘newbie evening’ as a result of we costume up all 12 months. However I do love Halloween and, if I’m not working, I like to remain dwelling and watch certainly one of my favourite horror movies like the unique Carrie from 1976 or Psycho or Evening of the Residing Useless whereas scarfing down the Halloween sweet I purchased for the trick or treaters that fortunately by no means present up.
What horror film would you star in if given a price range and free vary to do no matter? You possibly can remake any movie of the previous, or you may create your personal.
I actually don’t consider in remaking motion pictures, particularly if they're classics and/or have been completed proper the primary time. So I might most likely spend the cash on an unique thought. One thing actually terrifying like Woman Bunny Out of Drag in HD and 3-D!
What’s on faucet for October for you — and the remainder of the 12 months?
The Huluween Dragstravaganza selection particular I co-star in, and co-wrote, begins streaming on Hulu on Oct 1 and is offered all month. And my new comedy sequence “Dr. Jackie: Unlicensed Psychotherapist” is now airing on OUTtv. Belief me, Jackie Beat giving individuals recommendation is about as scary because it will get!