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61 Essential Queer Horror Films
From the literally invisible lesbian ghosts of the 1940s to the multidimensional queer characters of Fear Street.
At a time when the rights of trans folks are being relentlessly assailed and the highest court in the land is intoning that legal precedents ensuring gay marriage may no longer be safe, genre cinema will play the vital role it always has in rendering our gravest societal fears and anxieties with all the blood and bile and body horror they deserve. Good and bad is a useless binary in the world of Titane, as an assault victim becomes a femme fatale before turning into a frightened fugitive searching for safe haven, and her salvation comes in the form of a jacked middle-aged man who tenderly adopts her as his long-lost son after she shaves her head and takes a boy’s name — a chosen family born from the idea of a biological one. Slay shows exactly what gets lost in a drag-showcase movie like The Bitch Who Stole Christmas, which was made for VH1, by letting its stars perform a lip sync to the uncensored version of “WAP.” Drag-queen story hour at your local library may be a beautifully inclusive kind of queer ambassador event for kids to experience drag, but that art form is also bawdy and confrontational and often NSFW.
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