Happy Pride Month, everybody! We’re here, we’re queer, and we want to stay home tonight and binge-watch horror movies! I have triumphantly returned to the It Came from Streaming soapbox to give you a queer-ified tour through the best and brightest of what the world of horror movie streaming has to offer this month. 

The Best Movies To Stream for Pride Month 2024

There are a lot of different ways to interpret what makes a “queer movie,” let alone a queer horror movie, so I’m going to try to include a pretty wide variety of what’s new and gay as hell on a streaming service near you!

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Sometimes all you need is a gorgeous, lushly mounted Anne Rice adaptation where a dewy Brad Pitt sulks at a bewigged Tom Cruise while they argue for decades about how to raise their surrogate daughter, who is also Kirsten Dunst. The new AMC series adaptation of the novel is obviously doing a much better job of foregrounding the queer material that is central to this text, but it’s honestly more impressive that they got away with making this movie as achingly gay as they did back in ye olde ‘90s.

Interview with the Vampire is streaming now on Tubi.

Fright Night (1985)

Let’s kick off this month with a double-whammy of subtextually queer vampire stories! Why not? The inherent erotic underpinnings of the vampire myth allow for ample queer readings into stories like this one, which follows a teenage boy who becomes hopelessly obsessed with his adult male neighbor, to the point that he ignores sex with his girlfriend to spy on him. Because that neighbor might be a vampire. Yeah, sure, that’s why. This movie also has what might literally be the queerest supporting cast for an ostensibly straight movie from the 1980s, which includes the ever-reliable Roddy McDowall and Amanda Bearse.

Sidebar: I wish I could have included a vampire movie that doesn’t center on cis men, like The Hunger (1983) or Daughters of Darkness (1971), among many others, but I am, alas, shackled to what the streamers have decided to throw at us this June. But check those movies out anyway!

Fright Night is streaming now on Max.

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

The in-universe queer content is admittedly limited here. There is a queer character (played by the terrific Sarah Swire, who has a hell of a voice), but she has an offscreen love interest. But there’s something alchemically gay about combining a musical, the zombie apocalypse, and Christmas into a single gift-wrapped package. 

Anna and the Apocalypse is streaming now on Peacock.

The Skin I Live In (2011)

It wouldn’t be a proper queer film festival if there wasn’t a controversial pick thrown in there. The degree to which Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is a “problem movie” is highly debatable, considering how well it fits into the nasty-minded, queer, punk storytelling aesthetic that the Spanish director has been cultivating since the early 1980s. But let’s just say that this movie, which stars Antonio Banderas as a twisted surgeon, isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to the ways that gender and the body don’t always intersect. It’s definitely not for everyone, but it’s a compelling thriller that is well worth a watch otherwise.

The Skin I Live In is streaming now on Max. 

(For an even ickier time, Brian De Palma’s wildly transphobic but nevertheless interesting problem film Dressed to Kill is also new to streaming, on Tubi, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to recommend that one during Pride month in good conscience.)

Seed of Chucky (2005)

The fifth movie in the Child’s Play franchise has been critically reevaluated in the past few years, but honestly, even if every person in the world signed a petition declaring their love for Seed of Chucky, it wouldn’t be enough to redeem how poorly it was treated when it originally came out. The initial repulsed reaction that audiences had to this movie put Chucky in franchise jail for nearly a decade and consigned him to a direct-to-DVD release when he did return. Sure, it’s cheaper-looking than the previous installments. I’ll give people that. But it’s got a scrappy, relentlessly buoyant postmodern energy that can’t be denied. I take the cameo from John Waters, who is clearly delighted to be playing a dogged Hollywood paparazzo, to be a tacit endorsement of this movie’s deeply compelling trash-pop vibe. Also, with the way it centers a child investigating their own gender identity and multiple characters seeking outsides that match their insides, it’s maybe the queerest movie of the mid-2000s. Take that, Brokeback.

Seed of Chucky is streaming now on Peacock.

BONUS: Bound (1996)

Bound is in no way a horror movie, but in addition to being one of the most earnestly, authentically queer romances of the 20th century, the Wachowskis’ debut is a goddamn good crime thriller, full of zesty cinematic energy that told you these folks were going places. Plus, it’s mentioned in what is by far the best joke in Seed of Chucky, so I think it counts for this list.

Bound is streaming now on Paramount+.

PS: Jennifer’s Body is now streaming on Peacock, FYI, but enough queer people have said enough about that movie that I couldn’t possibly add a single thing to the discourse here.