Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
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Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

6.2 / 10
2022
1 season
4 episodes
Documentary

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.

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Seasons

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    7.0
    30-09-202247m

    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 d...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    7.0
    07-10-202261m

    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 c...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    7.0
    14-10-202255m

    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 exp...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    8.0
    21-10-202264m

    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 nove...

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