Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror  - TV series (2022)

Original title

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

Released

9/30/2022

Origin country

US

Genre

Documentary

Production companies

Steakhaus Productions, Shudder

Status

Ended

Number of seasons

1

Number of episodes

4

Description

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.

Сезони

Season 1

Season 1

4 серій

30/09/2022

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Episode 1

1. Episode 1

30/09/2022

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."

Episode 2

2. Episode 2

07/10/2022

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.

Episode 3

3. Episode 3

14/10/2022

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.

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

21/10/2022

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."

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