Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (2022)
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.
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror: Season 1 - 4 Episode s
1x1 - Episode 1
September 30, 2022
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 queer-coded "Nosferatu."
1x2 - Episode 2
October 7, 2022
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 keep audiences in suspense.
1x3 - Episode 3
October 14, 2022
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 self.
1x4 - Episode 4
October 21, 2022
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 Daughter."
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror: 1 Season
Actors in Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
Carmen Maria Machado
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Kimberly Peirce
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Briana Venskus
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Emily St. James
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Alonso Duralde
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Renée Bever
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Justin Simien
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Harry Benshoff
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Leslye Headland
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Tommy Pico
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Lea DeLaria
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Liv Hewson
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Bryan Fuller
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Lachlan Watson
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Bruce Vilanch
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Michael Feinstein
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Jewelle Gomez
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BenDeLaCreme
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Tawny Cypress
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Michael Feinstein
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