Queer Horror Icons
This pop star played a bloodthirsty countess in American Horror Story: Hotel.
Who is Lady Gaga?
This 1935 film’s “Monster’s Bride” has become a queer camp icon,
Who is the Bride of Frankenstein?
This 2017 film, written by Jordan Peele, used horror to explore racial anxiety and identity.
What is Get Out?
He is the gay creator behind American Horror Story and Scream Queens.
Who is Ryan Murphy?
This term describes the over-the-top, theatrical style often celebrated in queer horror fandom.
What is camp?
This actor, best known for Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue, became a cult icon for their flamboyant performances and camp sensibility.
Who is Tim Curry?
Many scholars read Dracula as a metaphor for this kind of forbidden desire.
What is homoerotic desire?
This 2022 slasher comedy features a group of queer Gen Z friends stranded during a hurricane?
What is Bodies Bodies Bodies?
This Scream franchise character was confirmed as queer in Scream 5.
Who is Mindy Meeks-Martin?
This 1975 musical horror film introduced audiences to Dr. Frank-N-Furter
What is The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
This non-binary actor made horror history, starring in Chucky (TV series) as 2 recurring non-binary characters, Glen & Glenda Tilly.
Who is Lachlan Watson?
The 1985 film A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is often called “the gayest horror movie ever made.” This is the main character’s name.
Who is Jesse Walsh?
The 2022 film They/Them takes place at this kind of location.
What is a conversion camp?
Nonbinary actor Mason Alexander Park stars as Desire in this dark fantasy Netflix series.
What is The Sandman?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured one of TV’s first long-running lesbian couples. This is the name one of the characters.
Who are Willow Rosenberg or Tara Maclay?
These drag performers and horror fans created and star in The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula.
Who are The Boulet Brothers?
The film Interview with the Vampire features an implicitly queer relationship between these two characters.
Who are Lestat and Louis.
Hellraiser (2022) features a new, explicitly androgynous take on this iconic horror figure.
Who is Pinhead?
Out filmmaker Don Mancini created this long-running horror franchise featuring a killer doll?
What is Child’s Play / Chucky?
This 2004 horror film and video game starring Milla Jovovich became popular with queer audiences for its fierce, apocalyptic aesthetic.
What is Resident Evil?
This writer and creator of Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) is known for revitalizing the teen slasher genre and including subtle queer-coded elements in his characters.
Who is Kevin Williamson?
In Psycho, Norman Bates’ relationship with his mother is often discussed as part of this broader theme around gender and identity.
What is Gender nonconformity or repression of identity
The film Titane (2021), directed by Julia Ducournau, explores body horror, queerness, and transformation — and won this major international award.
What is The Palme d’Or at Cannes?
Queer director Jennifer Kent gained acclaim for The Babadook (2014), which became an unexpected LGBTQ+ symbol. This creature’s name inspired memes about queer identity.
What is The Babadook?
This 2023 film was co-directed by the Philippou brothers and gained attention for its depiction of loss, identity, and bodily possession as metaphors for queer alienation.
What is Talk to Me.