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Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (2022)
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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.
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Carmen Maria MachadoSelf
Kimberly PeirceSelf
Briana VenskusSelf
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Emily St. JamesSelf
Alonso DuraldeSelf
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Renée BeverSelf
Justin SimienSelf
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Harry BenshoffSelf
Leslye HeadlandSelf
Tommy PicoSelf
Lea DeLariaSelf
Liv HewsonSelf
Bryan FullerSelf
Lachlan WatsonSelf
Bruce VilanchSelf
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Jewelle GomezSelf
BenDeLaCremeSelf
Tawny CypressSelf
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Bryan FullerDirector
Tara AnaïseDirector
Tom MaroneyDirector
Sam WinemanCreator
Tara AnaïseWriter
Tom MaroneyWriter
Sam WinemanProducer
Samuel ZimmermanProducer
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Season 1
4 episodes · First aired 2022-09-30 · ★ 7.3
E01
Episode 1
2022-09-30 · 47 min
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."
E02
Episode 2
2022-10-07 · 61 min
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.
E03
Episode 3
2022-10-14 · 55 min
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.
E04
Episode 4
2022-10-21 · 64 min
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."
