![]() Table of Contents Queer horror movies 1932-1963 The Old Dark House (1932) Director James Whale’s films have historically been read for having queer undertones.įive strangers seek shelter from a storm together at a creepy old house in the Welsh countryside. In a collection of essays about horror movies from queer writers, It Came From the Closet, Carrow Narby argues that The Blob (1988) can be considered a queer horror movie because “the blob” is a relatable character to queer people, “I don’t know what could be more queer than being narratively positioned as a threat to family values, particularly to children.” Going further, Zefyr Lisowski argues in the same book that “If there isn’t a supremacist culture to view things through, does monstrosity even exist?” Queer horror movies can be those that follow an LGBT protagonist, those that have a queer writer and/or director, or even movies that just feel thematically familiar to queer audiences. A married lesbian couple (Hannah Emily Anderson and Brittany Allen) encounter horror at a cabin in the woods in What Keeps You Alive (2018). ![]() This makes the genre fertile territory for anyone curious about tracing taboos through the decades of Hollywood (or any culture’s film catalog) history. ![]() For instance, horror movies do this by what they choose to present as “monstrous” or scary. ![]() ![]() Movies are a mirror that reflect cultural values back at the viewer. ![]()
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