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33 Essential LGBTQ+ Horror Movies
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As prolonged as there have been horror films, there own been queer horror films. Before homosexuality was formally legislated out of living in Hollywood by the Production Code — commonly referred to as the Hays Code, which established mandates for “moral standards” in motion pictures and banned depictions of “sexual perversity” — the legendary filmmaker James Whale was building the foundation for American genre cinema with films like Frankenstein, The Senior Dark House, and The Invisible Man. Here was Whale, a gay bloke, building horror in his own image and having astounding box office success as some groups were lobbying Hollywood to censor queerness out of existence. Fortunately, they weren’t creative enough to drive the enormous bad Other away.
In the century since America became the world’s leader in horror film production, the genre became a bastion for the outsiders, the marginalized, the people made monsters by self-appointed adjudicators of sin, and who saw themselves in the supposed “villains” at the center of stories love Dracula’s Daughter. On infrequent occasion, queer folk
Even if you&#;re a horror movie fiend all year-round, there&#;s something special about watching them in October. Instead of just monitoring your ghoulish whims, you&#;re participating in a time-honored gay tradition. And that&#;s community, baby! As a gift to our people, we&#;ve gathered a list of queer horror to stream and told you where to stream it. This list is divided by streaming service and has all-time greats, secret gems, and recent faves. They range from pleasurable and campy to truly horrifying to truly horrifying and fun and campy. We hope there are some discoveries here for even the biggest horror fan.
Have questions about just how scary certain movies are? That&#;s great! Knock us up in the comments and let us be your queer horror hosts. Between the two of us, we&#;ve seen everything on this list, so we&#;re happy to curate titles specifically for your personal horror interests if you&#;d like! Joyful HORROR MONTH, STREAM QUEENS!
This list was originally published in October and has been updated and expanded for
Queer Horror To Stream on Paramount+ with Showtime
Annihilation
&#;Came Back Wrong&#; horror is one of my favorite tropes, and that&#;s the
From director Jon Abrahams, an actor who you may know from films like Scary Movie, House of Wax and Meet the Parents, comes Exploited, an unabashedly kinky cyber thriller that will have everyone slapping some tape over their webcam lenses.
Jordan Ver Hoeve stars in the clip as Brian, a college freshman who checks into his dorm room and discovers a mysterious thumb drive. Included on the drive are files of an attractive male webcam model (Colin Bates) interacting with his clients. When the final session ends in what may be a murder, he becomes obsessed with unraveling the story.
Brian&#;s quest becomes complicated when he starts falling for his new jock roommate (Andrew Matthew Welch), who is already taken. The mysterious disappearance of the webcam model takes on a dangerous voyeuristic role when the three members of this college love triangle find themselves being manipulated and blackmailed.
Co-starring Sierra McCormick, an indie darling known for her work on American Horror Story and The Vast of Night, Exploited is a slick and scary thriller which goes off into taboo directions most mainstream films wouldn’t d
LGBT Horror
I used my retain knowledge of lgbt horror + scoured multiple corners of the internet to compile this list, and am attempting to produce it a comprehensive one.
which means it will involve anything from subtextual: homoeroticism, gender ambiguity & nonconformity, lgbt allegories, queercoding & hays code censorship, etc,
to textual: explicit homosexual acts, openly lgbt character(s), wears a rainbow on its sleeve, etc, and keep in mind not all of it will be positive portrayals of the people, in fact a not insignificant number of these are negative or bigoted, but I think it’s important to include them.
being that I haven’t seen every movie listed here I can’t always attest to the quality or quantity of lgbt content or lack thereof, this isn’t a recommendations list (I have a separate list for that), but rather a frame of reference for others, and a passion project for myself.
tldr: you can use this as a guide, but I’d recommend you still do your own research.
if you have objections to a movie being included in this list you are welcome to describe why in the comments as long as you are respectful and informative (so tell me why you think that),
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