Horror films haven’t always been kd to gay characters, though LGBTQ viewers mata a wonrfully unique relatnship wh the genre.
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- BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
- THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE
BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
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A rare slasher film wh a group of entirely openly gay characters, Hellbent is an outlier of s time that’s also a fe example of a story wh queer protagonists that go beyond the tradnal “g-out” narrative. This is particularly due to s solate settg on a gay cisg beach and the e of shadow by cematography matra Claire Mathon. Mdy beg openly queer is a ls fg character tra, which is admirable and mak Scream an antidote to the e of homosexualy as a punchle s precsor, where the character Robbie Mercer blurts that he’s gay jt to avoid Ghostface’s wrath.
More fixated on his pannship wh his male partner and antagonizg a society uneasy by his mere prence, Griff is a figure wh his own queer unrcurrent like the monster Frankenste, another horror masterpiece om openly gay director Jam Whale. It also amped up s gay-iendly mp factor wh not jt more theatril actrsg, but some queer unrton.
THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE
Horror films have moved om the subtly d lbian 1963’s “The Hntg” to the then-reer-skg gayns of 1985’s “Nightmare on Elm Street, to the wholehearted embrace of Sam and Deena’s relatnship Netflix’s “Fear Street” cred: MGM“The Hntg” (1963)While the character of Theo the 2018 Netflix limed seri “The Hntg of Hill Hoe” was openly gay, almost all the referenc to her beg a lbian were removed om Robert Wise’s still-effective classic about a psychic vtigatn to the notorly hnted Hill Hoe. Claire Bloom, who played the chic character the 1963 film, later told the Motn Picture Archive that Theo was “very obvly gay” a scene om the script that was cut out. How gay is ?
Horror films haven’t always been kd to gay characters, though LGBTQ viewers mata a wonrfully unique relatnship wh the genre. There are a number of petg theori as to what’s behd this spe-tglg love affair — om intifyg wh the “otherns” of monsters to the lan subtexts of early works — but perhaps ’s jt an appreciatn for the fe art of non of queer horror tl has been slowly buildg over the past several s, aid by a number of recent die films that twist tradnal homophobic horror trop and a body of classic films that are beg re-read through a ntemporary queer there are many to choose om, here are 19 queer horror films to put toward the top of your watchlist for “Gay Christmas, ” otherwise known as Halloween.
”In this slasher film, lbian uple Renee and Valerie leave the big cy to go to a ral b to attend a weddg-planng retreat for their iends, a gay uple. The getaway be a leral retreat, as they are hunted, surveilled and tortured by a group of homophobic extremists. ”A year after gay Brooklyn, New York, party boy Danny is btally attacked by a stranger, he cis to give his social life another chance.