Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (2022)

1 - Episódio 1

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.

2 - Episódio 2

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.

3 - Episódio 3

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.