Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

Season 1

2022 · 4 episodes · 3h 47m in all · 7.3/10

Episodes

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   1. Episode 1

   30 Sept 2022 · 47 min · 7.0/10

   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."

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   2. Episode 2

   7 Oct 2022 · 61 min · 7.0/10

   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.

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   3. Episode 3

   14 Oct 2022 · 55 min · 7.0/10

   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.

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   4. Episode 4

   21 Oct 2022 · 64 min · 8.0/10

   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."