From Nosferatu to A Nightmare on Elm Street, LGBTQ+ viewers have long tected a queer unrtone many horror films. Now the genre is brgg s gay subtext to the surface
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The most famo killer doll story mastream media was penned by a gay man and that mak me happy. A ltle mp, a ltle glam, a lot creepy, Whale set the tone for horror of the 1930s while livg openly as a gay man durg a time when that was virtually unheard of. Before homosexualy was formally legislated out of existence Hollywood by the Productn Co — monly referred to as the Hays Co, which tablished mandat for “moral standards” motn pictur and banned pictns of “sexual perversy” — the legendary filmmaker Jam Whale was buildg the foundatn for Amerin genre cema wh films like Frankenste, The Old Dark Hoe, and The Invisible Man.
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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.