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Season 1 – Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror

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This documentary series explores the history of the LGBTQ+ community in the horror and thriller genres; the series reexamines genre stories through a queer lens.
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Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror — Season 1

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya Autostraddle 10/27/2022
It’s in these messier, more difficult moments of reckoning with queer and trans subtext, narrative, and allegory in horror that Queer for Fear really shines. Go to Full Review André Hereford Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) 11/04/2022
4/5
The richly entertaining 'Queer for Fear' charts a fabulous voyage through the history of queerness in horror films. Go to Full Review John Paul King Washington Blade 10/24/2022
It takes the subject matter seriously, making clear from the very first episode that its goal is to make a thoroughly researched case for the notion that queer subtext is deliberately built into the genre from the foundation up. Go to Full Review Cass Clarke Slashfilm 10/04/2022
Each interviewee's documented personal queer connection to the material is history-making in and of itself, and I want more of it. Go to Full Review Andrew Murray The Upcoming 09/29/2022
4/5
[A]s a crash course in queer film theory told passionately by horror fans, Queer for Fear is an engaging and entertaining trip into LGBTQ+ horror history that cinephiles shouldn’t miss. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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kenneth K 10/25/2022 Super interesting docu-series. For anyone into horror films and sociology, this series provides a crash course on all the rarely-told stories of the queer writers, directors and actors responsible for so many beloved horror classics. Shudder really does keep delivering with their documentary content. See more Read all reviews
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror — Season 1

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Bryan Fuller

Executive Producer

Bryan Fuller

Director

Tom Maroney

Director

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 30, 2022 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." Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 7, 2022 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. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 14, 2022 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. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 21, 2022 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." Details

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Season Info

Director
Bryan Fuller, Tom Maroney
Executive Producer
Bryan Fuller
Network
Shudder
Genre
Documentary, Horror, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 30, 2022