Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

Overview

A four-part documentary telling the story of LGBTQIA+ horror and the relationship between queer audiences and horror, and the queer horror community as a whole.

Episodes

Episode 1

S01E01 Episode 1

September 30, 2022 7.0 47 min
Queer gothic writers Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker invent the horror genre with "Frankenstein," "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Dracula"; when cinema arrives, queer director F.W. Murnau shocks the world with his...
Episode 2

S01E02 Episode 2

October 7, 2022 7.0 61 min
Gay director James Whale makes four classics that pave the way for all Hollywood horror movies after, but his career was dimmed by anti-gay sentiment; Alfred Hitchcock uses queer characters and queer coded stories to...
Episode 3

S01E03 Episode 3

October 14, 2022 7.0 55 min
Werewolves, cat people, body-snatchers and doppelgängers are uniquely queer metaphors; from the classic "The Wolf Man" to queer-authored "Cat People," the monsters of the 1940s express shame and seek to rid themselves of the secret...
Episode 4

S01E04 Episode 4

October 21, 2022 8.0 64 min
The dangerous queer woman has been terrorizing horror audiences since before the dawn of cinema; the lesbian vampire sucks the lifeblood from women and men alike in the gothic novella "Carmilla" and films like "Dracula's...

Cast

Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado
Self
Kimberly Peirce
Kimberly Peirce
Self
Briana Venskus
Briana Venskus
Self
Emily St. James
Self
Alonso Duralde
Alonso Duralde
Self
Renée Bever
Self
Justin Simien
Justin Simien
Self
Harry Benshoff
Self
Leslye Headland
Leslye Headland
Self
Tommy Pico
Tommy Pico
Self
Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria
Self
Liv Hewson
Liv Hewson
Self

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