31 Gay Horror Movi: ‘Raw,’ ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 2,’ and More – IndieWire

Contents:

• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• ‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

Maybe the scene—or the entire subtext-rich story— across like a wk om director Jam Whale, himself openly gay a time and culture that meant his sexualy endangered both his livelihood and his life. While some earlier films do clu overtly gay them, thgs went unrground durg the Hays Co era, and the reverberatns of that subversive queerns rema uful to this day. Here are 31 of the most famoly queer and homoerotic horror films.

Some of the movi center on explicly gay terror, while others only feature LGBTQ characters.

‘THE BLACKENG’ STAR DEWAYNE PERKS ON HIS GAY HORROR SPOOF CHARACTER AND MG HIS COMG-OUT STORY FOR COMEDY

A tan of classic horror, gay filmmaker Jam Whale wove queerns to most of his films, which clu the origal “Frankenste” and “The Invisible Man. ” All his films see Whale stg gay actors and playg up queer them var ways.

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” The remarkable thg about all this is that Hchck mak you intify wh Perks (who was gay and closeted real life) as much as he did Marn Crane herself, to the pot that, as Hchck often did at his perverse bt, you’re kda rootg for him. A prolific and succsful horror fictn wrer who began directg to adapt his work himself, out gay filmmaker Clive Barker is rponsible for two of the films on this list, “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser.