A look at how queer horror films have evolved over time, asssg more than 50 films that span the gay ghosts of the early 20th century to The Babadook.
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UNIVERSAL’S CLASSIC MONSTER MOVI PROVE THAT GAYS HAVE ALWAYS LOVED HALLOWEEN
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. 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. 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.