Airdate: Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror 

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror is a four-part documentary series about the history of the LGBTQ+ community in the horror and thriller genres.

From executive producers Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies) and Steak House (Disney Launchpad, The Mustang), it will screen on Shudder later this month.

From its literary origins with queer authors Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde to the pansy craze of the 1920s that influenced Universal Monsters and Hitchcock; from the “lavender scare” alien invasion films of the mid-20th century to the AIDS obsessed bloodletting of 80s vampire films; through genre-bending horrors from a new generation of queer creators; Queer for Fear re-examines genre stories through a queer lens, seeing them not as violent, murderous narratives, but as tales of survival that resonate thematically with queer audiences everywhere.

Queer for Fear features interviews with series consultant Renée “Nay” Bever (“Attack of the Queerwolf” Podcast co-host), Mark Gatiss (Co-Creator, Writer & Actor, Sherlock and Dracula on BBC), Kimberly Peirce (Writer and Director, Boys Don’t Cry, Carrie (2013), Lea DeLaria (Actor, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2000), Orange is the New Black), Jennifer Tilly (Actor, Child’s Play franchise), Karyn Kusama (Director, Jennifer’s Body, Yellowjackets), Leslye Headland (Creator, Russian Doll), Oz Perkins (Writer & Director, Gretel & Hansel) and more.

Episode 1:
Queer gothic writers Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker invent the horror genre with masterpieces Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula. And when cinema arrives, queer director F.W. Murnau shocks the world with his queer-coded Nosferatu and Hollywood gets on the horror bandwagon and releases its legendary adaptation of Dracula at the height of prohibition and the wild Pansy Craze.

Friday 30 September on Shudder and continues weekly.

Horror themes.