Out of the ff and the closet: gay vampir are no longer sub-text, they're jt text

Contents:

• FANS ARE HYPED FOR NETFLIX’S NEW GAY VAMPIRE ANIME
• FIRST LOOK AT ICELANDIC GAY VAMPIRE MOVIE ‘THIRST’
• FIRST KILL IS THE GAY VAMPIRE-HUNTER ROMANCE OF OUR DREAMS

FANS ARE HYPED FOR NETFLIX’S NEW GAY VAMPIRE ANIME

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Here are 31 of the most famoly queer and homoerotic horror films.

FIRST LOOK AT ICELANDIC GAY VAMPIRE MOVIE ‘THIRST’

Some of the movi center on explicly gay terror, while others only feature LGBTQ characters. 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. Though didn’t spawn any sequels, “Nightbreed” was more crilly embraced than “Hellraiser” and is nsired a direct metaphor for gay activism.

FIRST KILL IS THE GAY VAMPIRE-HUNTER ROMANCE OF OUR DREAMS

“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.

Takg the token gay iend to his rightfully sensual ends, her roommate Adrien luxuriat his sexualy, brgg boys home and flntg the pleasur of the flh that seem so out of reach to the raveno Jte. For 2019’s “Midnight Kiss, ” a sexy gay slasher set amongst a group of LA gay iends on New Year’s Eve, Blumhoe tapped out gay talent — wrer Erlgur Thoroddsen and director Carter Smh, who also hired all queer actors for the queer rol.

Bram Stoker, a closeted gay man, was heavily fluenced by Le Fanu when he wrote Dracula 1897. Germany’s Weimar Republic, a sexually progrsive perd between the world wars, produced a number of fluential vampire films cludg Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932) – ma by a gay director and star, rpectively. Looks like 's time for the 'Twilight' rurgence to make room, bee what was announced this month as one of Netflix's key productns for 2021, is a gay, vampire-themed TV show tled, First Kill, and we are extremely exced.