Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2022-09-30

Last Air Date: 2022-10-21

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Created By: Bryan Fuller

Networks: Shudder

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Top Cast

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

Seasons

Season 1 (2022)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2022-09-30)

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."
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2022-10-07)

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.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2022-10-14)

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.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2022-10-21)

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."