Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

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  1. Episode 1

  47m

  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

  61m

  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

  55m

  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

  64m

  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."

Cast

Carmen Maria Machado

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Kimberly Peirce

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Briana Venskus

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Emily St. James

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Alonso Duralde

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Renée Bever

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Justin Simien

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Harry Benshoff

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Leslye Headland

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Tommy Pico

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Lea DeLaria

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Liv Hewson

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