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...
It’s terrifying to imagine living in a body that doesn’t feel quite right. The idea of becoming a stranger to yourself, the unwilling pilot of a...
Sexuality plays a huge role in Hellraiser. Not only is sex central to the plot of the film, but the Cenobites are also basically kinky sex demons...
Hellbent follows a group of friends, Eddie (Dylan Fergus), Jake (Bryan Kirkwood), Joey (Hank Harris), and Chaz (Andrew Levitas), as they head out for an exciting, and...
Note: I spoke with a handful of queer filmmakers for this article. To protect people’s identities and careers, their names have been removed. The intersection of...
When thinking about the historical and traditional symbols of heteronormative male culture, two main things come to mind; women and cars. Cars are such an essential...
Formed in 1969, The Cockettes were a San Francisco-based avant-garde theater troupe whose penchant for psychedelic satire quickly garnered them a cult following that spread far...
It’s a hard time to be a trans person. Not only do we have to sift through the identities projected upon us to discover our true...
Representation matters. Everyone needs to see themselves reflected in the art they consume, especially people from marginalized groups. Seeing queer people in horror movies helps to...
One of the things I love most about horror is the degree to which it can realize its visual splendor. A horror film’s artistic expression lives...
Despite the rigid guidelines of the Hays Code, which was active from 1934 to 1968, the horror genre has hosted...
It starts on a Friday night with pizza, wine, and some cookies I pick up from the bodega. We all...
What if I told you Tetsuo: The Iron Man is one of the most evocative examples of “queer awakening” ever put on...
It’s terrifying to imagine living in a body that doesn’t feel quite right. The idea of becoming a stranger to...
Sexuality plays a huge role in Hellraiser. Not only is sex central to the plot of the film, but the Cenobites...
Is 'Jaws' (1974) queer coded? Jaws does pass the Bechdel test… once. Aside from a brief geographic conversation between wives, Jaws is homosocial...
The Pet Sematary remake brought us something new within a story we knew well. It created a horror we hadn't gotten from...
Should horror remakes exist? Should they not? I’m not too interested in answering that question. But the truth is that...
While horror films explore all sorts of different frights, the tale created in Diary of a Madman brings about the...
The pursuit of perfection through children is a dangerous parenting method, one that can ultimately leave a child battling for...