8.1/1083 votes#1 - 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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8.1/1058 votes#2 - 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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7.9/1050 votes#3 - 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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7.8/1042 votes#4 - 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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The Best Episodes of Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror Season 1
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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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 83 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/2022. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".