Makeover Montage: A Fashion in Film Podcast · Marie Lodi and Blaire Bercy

Hot Topic Goth Corsets and Cozy Fall Turtlenecks in Urban Legend (1998)

·1 hr 40 min·5 clips

The hosts link Urban Legend to celebrity rumors about baby aspirin, semen stomach pumps, and Richard Gere’s gerbil story.

Marie Lodi opens in full horror-whore mode and Blair Bursey matches it, with Natalie from Halloween Queens joining for a special October hang. The episode centers on *Urban Legend* (1998), which Blair wanted to cover because the cast is star-studded and unmistakably late 90s. From there, they settle into the movie’s campier pleasures and keep returning to how it looks. A goth character’s corset becomes the fixation: they mostly only see the top half at first, then the overhead bathroom shot gives a better look and sends them trying to work out the rest of the outfit. They wonder whether it was Hot Topic, Lip Service, or something picked up on Melrose at Red Balls Retail, and they wish they had promo or test photos to settle it. The conversation also moves through campus-goth hookup energy and the film’s brutal deaths, including a kill that reminds them of *Idle Hands*. It stays chatty, affectionate, and very much in the Halloween spirit, with the group riffing on costume detail, horror logic, and the kind of movie memories that get people talking. They close by asking listeners to send the episode to friends who love *Urban Legend*, 90s horror, or costume design, and to share their own urban-legend stories.

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A loose, lively late-90s horror chat that keeps circling back to costume details, goth style, and Urban Legend.

Makeover Montage keeps Urban Legend (1998) moving at a brisk, easygoing clip. Marie Lodi, Blair Bursey, and Natalie from Halloween Queens lean into the movie's late-90s cast appeal, then stay with the costume details, goth styling, and the bits of wardrobe that never fully get a…

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Press play if you want a late-90s horror chat with costume nerdery, goth energy, and a star-studded cast.

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