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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.
Genre:Documentary
Network:Shudder
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Season 1

  • Episode 1
    8.1/1083 votes
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    Episode 1

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2022

    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."

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  • Episode 2
    8.1/1058 votes
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    Episode 2

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2022

    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.

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  • Episode 3
    7.9/1050 votes
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    Episode 3

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2022

    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.

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  • Episode 4
    7.8/1042 votes
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    Episode 4

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2022

    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."

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