13 Gay Horror Films & TV Shows to Stream This Halloween

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• SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI
• M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S KNOCK AT THE CAB TRAILER HAS TIED UP GAYS — BUT NOT LIKE THAT

SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI

Not only is the ncept of body-swappg herently queer, but Freaky also featur Josh, the ma character's gay bt iend as a rehg take on what is often an old archetype. Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge play the gay dads, while Dave Btista, Nikki Ama-Bird, Abby Qun, and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grt) are the apolypse-foreeg kidnappers who tie up the uple. 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.

M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN’S KNOCK AT THE CAB TRAILER HAS TIED UP GAYS — BUT NOT LIKE THAT

Over the next few years, var wags of Tumblr began to sist that the film’s eponymo monster – a towerg charal-sketched ghoul wh a stovepipe hat, icepick fgers and an ordate number of sharply rectangular teeth – was fact a gay in. In promotg his new documentary seri Queer for Fear, a history of queer horror cema currently streamg on the chiller-themed platform service Shudr, gay TV wrer Bryan Fuller (creator of the TV seri Hannibal) argued that an tn the genre n beg early life, wh somethg as nocuo as The Wizard of Oz. Irish thor Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carla, about a female vampire preyg on a young woman, effectively ed the lbian vampirism trope faiar later horror storytellg; long believed to have been a closeted homosexual, Bram Stoker load Dracula wh enough polysexual allns to keep amics by for over a century.

In 1922, closeted German film-maker FW Murn squeezed a good number of them to his unofficial, rampantly sire-fuelled adaptatn, Shelley’s siarly suoly load Frankenste, meanwhile, beme the source of one of Hollywood’s first nonilly queer horror films: gay English director Jam Whale’s five 1931 adaptatn is marked by a distctly queer empathy wh Boris Karloff’s socially vilified monster, prented as more vulnerably human than the vengeful villagers bayg for his bristle … Elsa Lanchter Bri of Frankenste. The rints of the hoe are scribed as “godls”, and d as sexually ee and viant; one, the tellgly named Horace Femm, is mply played to the rafters by gay actor Ernt Thiger. Psycho’s tone was a far cry om the gleefully rampant sexualy of a spate of Sapphic vampire B-movi om the 1970s – cludg Hammer Films’ own Carla adaptatn The Vampire Lovers, not to mentn Jús Fran’s self-explanatory Vampyros Lbos – and, of urse, the Rocky Horror the Aids panmic raged, more hostile queer reprentatns beme wispread: horror films rangg om W Craven’s Deadly Blsg to Brian De Palma’s Drsed to Kill to Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, serial killg was routely lked to homosexualy, transgenrism and/or past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnIf this turnaround was le wh the Aids panic, allyship me om sourc both highbrow and low.

– David Bowie, while 1985’s lurid edy Fright Night posed a suave pair of male suburban vampir as a gay uple challengg neighbourhood norms. Most unexpectedly, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge two years later ma the bart of efforts to hi s homoerotic gaze, while s closeted gay teen protagonist Jse (so-lled male scream queen Mark Patton, who would himself later e out as gay) emerg as a heroic survivor the mould of horror’s tradnal Fal Girl.

And the leather-wrapped S&M genrqueerns of the mons gay wrer-director Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (1987) spoke for be them … Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + year’s Hellraiser remake, wh transgenr actor Jamie Clayton the inic Phead role, brgs much of s forenner’s LGBTQ+ subtext plaly to the surface – parg the two is an object lson how much queer horror has transformed the last few s. At the turn of the 21st century, we were still dancg around symbolic reprentatns of outsir sexual inty – see the implicly queer outst sisters of the lic teen werewolf tale Gger Snaps – or prentg homosexualy as an allurgly dangero threat, as Alexandre Aja’s thrillgly lurid but distctly sex-negative High, queer perspectiv are centred, by queer film-makers, whout shame or secrecy.