Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (2022)

Genre

documentary, documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series uses interviews with LGBTQ+ creators to examine how queer themes and representation have appeared in horror movies and literature over time. It covers topics like Gothic fiction, early Hollywood films, and the influence of historical events on horror tropes.

informativeanalyticalconversationaleducationalfocusedhistoricaldiscussion-heavy

What happens

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror is a 2022 television documentary series from the AMC-owned streaming network Shudder and Steakhaus Productions, executive produced by Bryan Fuller and Steak House. The series uses interviews with various LGBTQ+ creators to explore LGBTQ+ representation and queer coding in the horror genre throughout history, as well as influences from the Pansy Craze and the Lavender Scare to how 1980s vampire films were influenced by the AIDS epidemic. The first episode looks at Gothic fiction such as Frankenstein and Dracula and its underlying queer and personal conflict themes; the second considers Pre-Code Hollywood and films made in the early years of the Production Code Administration, especially work by F. W. Murnau, James Whale and Alfred Hitchcock; the third highlights different sub-genres of horror, specifically transformation horror and body replacement; the fourth and final episode discusses the portrayal of lesbians and the predatory female trope. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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