Other, Squared: Where Are the Black Gay Horror Leads?

Contents:

• SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI
• OTHER, SQUARED: WHERE ARE THE BLACK GAY HORROR LEADS?
• THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
• 6 HOLLYWOOD LSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY BY GAY HORROR FILMMAKERS

SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI

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.

OTHER, SQUARED: WHERE ARE THE BLACK GAY HORROR LEADS?

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.

THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA

But as wh so much of Hchck, ’s hard to say that this is an outright homophobic visn, pecially when the script has the souciance of Osr Wil: “Before this day is out I fear we’ll hear that terribly old-fashned but que exprsive term ‘foul play, ’” Sanrs says, all while munchg on a chicken leg.

6 HOLLYWOOD LSONS LEARNED THE HARD WAY BY GAY HORROR FILMMAKERS

” 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. Though didn’t spawn any sequels, “Nightbreed” was more crilly embraced than “Hellraiser” and is nsired a direct metaphor for gay activism.

“In many ways, ‘Interview’ is the most mercially succsful gay film of all time, and most dienc didn’t even realize they were seeg a gay film. In fact, ’s so beloved by queer women that ’s hard to believe there is virtually nothg explicly gay about “The Craft.