Philip and William drag Morgan into the kitchen while Rebecca flees to her bedroom. But at the same time, the public was hungry for fantastical stories of monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, and so on — all of which are convenient avatars for the socially ostracized, the misunderstood, and the disenfranchised. Glen and Glenda are also the two names of Chucky’s offspring with his girlfriend, Tiffany (all three of them are dolls), who have a gender nonbinary child in Bride of Chucky. For those just tuning in, the Hays Code was the censorship system that preceded the MPAA rating system. The plot concerns a bisexual novelist named Gerard (Jeroen Krabbé), who starts sleeping with a woman named Christine (Renée Soutendijk), which leads to a love triangle with Gerard, Christine, and her other lover, Herman (Thom Hoffman).
(For Catherine Zeta-Jones’s great take on the queer character, see the 1999 remake.). Fright Night (1985)When the handsome closeted vampire Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) moves into the neighborhood, the boy next door becomes so fixated on knowing more about him that he starts to ignore his girlfriend. Due to several unauthorized media appearances.
Tim Curry delivers a virtuoso performance of camp as Dr. Frank N. Furter, the sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania. The celluloid closet was finally opening up, but there was still a long way to go when it came to representation. Arguably there was no such thing, just a scattering of gay and lesbian directors, often closeted, making films that were masquerading as mass-market heterosexual fare, albeit with the occasional gay or lesbian actor or subtle wink.” But with the final dissolution of the Hays Code in 1968, the ’70s saw the cinematic gays come sprinting out of the closet — even if they didn’t run into the most flattering light. I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958)When a group of aliens invades a small town, they start taking over the bodies of all the local men, making them despondent and unemotional. Log in or link your magazine subscription, Photo: Sandrew Metronome Distribution/Miramax/Paramount Pictures/Getty Images, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, and More: A Hammer Horror Primer, The 30 Best Female-Led Horror Films of All Time, 25 of the Best Coming-of-Age Horror Movies, 24 Great Home-Invasion Horror Movies to Watch When You’re Home Alone, An Introduction to Spanish Horror: 15 Movies You Need to See, If You Want to See the Best Roles for Young Actresses, Watch Horror Films, Here Are 20 Teen Vengeance Movies for Your Petty Heart. There’s also plasma from the blood of shark embryos used as a nourishing elixir for these contemporary vampires, so, not exactly a normal day in Transylvania!
Directed by William Castle. Cat People (1942)Legendary producer Val Lewton brought forth Cat People, the story of a Serbian immigrant named Irena who must abstain from intimacy, lest she awaken the curse of her descendants, which doomed the women of her tribe to transform into murderous panthers should their desire be awakened. It is based on the novel Benighted (1927) by J.B. If queer people once sought out horror movies with queer-coded villains in desperate attempts to see themselves on screen, the push for civil rights came with a push-and-pull backlash. In 1957, Universal Studios lost the rights to the original story,[4] and a remake was released in 1963 directed by William Castle. [4] In the United States, Variety and The Hollywood Filmograph gave the film negative reviews, with Variety calling it a "somewhat inane picture".
Marge (Gloria Talbott) realizes the change in her husband, Bill (Tom Tryon), a year into their marriage, and notices that all her friends’ husbands are similarly aloof with their wives.
Nightbreed (1990)The story of Aaron Boone (Craig Sheffer), a man haunted by dreams about a city of monsters, is essentially a coming-out story about a guy realizing his true nature: that of a queer monster who is fated to join his brethren and defeat a serial murderer.
Whale also cast the famously campy actor Ernest Thesiger to play one of the Femm siblings. A professor comes into possession of an amulet with magical powers. Demon takes Bergman’s Persona concept of women blurring into one another and makes it a deliberate, insidious act. “Our main concern is with your physique,” Frankenstein tells his sexy monster. If you’re into punishment and BDSM, that might not sound like too bad of a proposition. Queer Cinema: The Old Dark House. And while vampirism has always been an avatar for queer characters, Jerry and his manservant Billy actually pretend to be a posh gay couple to ingratiate themselves with the neighbors. Even with all of this, I still think there’s more room for some fun truly queer horror movies, but they just need to be made. Lesbian vampires don’t get to have all the fun. It’s the queer as monster hiding behind queer performance to make people trust him. “We’re not going to betray the audience and say, ‘Whoops, that was all a dream.’”. Saul's attempt at burning the house has caused little damage. First Agatha Femm, Casper's mother, is discovered with her knitting needles stuck in her neck.
They fight and fall off a landing; Saul is killed and Roger injured.
Two women are invited to a haunted mansion by a male scientist who is investigating paranormal activities. Seed of Chucky (2004)Glen or Glenda is the name of a 1953 Ed Wood film about a man (played by Wood) coming out as a cross-dresser to his wife. Morgan breaks out of the kitchen and returns to the main room. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge explicitly used queerness as the murderous monster that haunted a teenager who just wanted to be straight like everybody else (even if he secretly got off on being his coach’s play thing). What a modern family! Currently, HIV/AIDS is still simmering in the background (even after PrEP) but is far less of a wave of gay death like it was in the 80s and 90s, gay acceptance has been on the rise in America (though a backlash has been brewing for the past couple of years), and television has experience a marked increase in mainstream representation. Carmilla is distraught at the engagement of her cousin, Leopoldo — but his betrothed, Georgia, develops an affection for Carmilla that veers into implicit sexual attraction. Looking for something to watch? His brood looks like they’ve been pulled straight from a leather bar, and thrown into a Poison concert, sporting the teased hair and androgynous aesthetic adornments — eyeliner, earrings, crop tops — popularized by the hair-metal wave. (As one user said, “It’s canon basically. Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, an unusual assembly of travelers are admitted into a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. [4] The film is based on the novel Benighted (1927) by J.
(Isn’t it obvious that he’s supposed to be Rick Owens? When a fierce storm forces five strangers to seek refuge in their secluded Welsh manse, we get a brief glimpse of one severely dysfunctional family. In addition to The Misandrists and Rift, we also saw Raw, a feminist movie with an unapologetically and non-demonized gay character (now available on Netflix), and the horror-ish movie Personal Shopper with Kristen Stewart in a queer role. (As Patton told BuzzFeed, “It just became undeniable. Casper's twin brother, Jasper, is the next victim, followed by Roderick, the head of the family. Here Are All the Movies Delayed Because of the Coronavirus.
Either way, Dorian is a character built for the decadence and depravity of swinging ’70s London — and the erotic way his body is filmed in this version is most definitely not intended for strictly female fans. Horror films in particular have made for a fascinating case study in the evolving perceptions of queer presence; queer-horror filmmakers and actors were often forced to lean into the trope of the “predatory queer” or the “monstrous queer” to claim some sense of power through visibility and blatant expressions of sexuality. This could have made for a bold examination of gender in horror, but instead it stays flat as a straightforward vengeance story.
With Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart.
Excellent filmmaking by Jonathan Demme, to be sure, but also the immortalization of one of the most frightening queer monsters in film history. 22 of 34 people found this review helpful. William Castle & Hammer DVD Collections Announced, The Incredible Two-headed Transplant Coming to Blu-ray. Brothers and sisters, it is time to fight!” The director’s cut particularly features plenty of gazing shots of an undressed Boone. ).” Jung summed it all up with some summer 2017 words to live by: “This year: The B in LGBTQ stands for Babadook. And yet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show also sympathized with the villains of the movie by exposing the whitebread heroes as boring, flat and uncool until they’d gotten a taste of Frank’s Cock the other side. Also, Sebastian Stan enters the picture, and there’s a witch fight between good and evil. [6] Adapted for the screen by R. C. Sherriff and Benn Levy, the motion picture follows the original plot of the book, while adding levels of comedy to the story. This isn’t just another “kill your gays” movie, though, with the antagonists being cartoonishly drawn as conservatives, Republicans, and the ultrareligious. After growing close, Oskar asks Eli if she will be his girlfriend, only to learn Eli is not a girl. I love horror shorts. Their passion awakens a bloodlust in Susan, who agrees to try and kill her husband, just as Carmilla killed hers centuries ago. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. Almost 80 years later, Mrs. Danvers remains one of the great coded queer icons of all time. It was later paired on disc with Mr. Sardonicus and included in two separate William Castle box sets.
Also, the Virgin Mary appears to Gerard in a dream and warns him away from Christine, since she might be a murderer. Like I’m a bukkake video.”) Gay screenwriter David Chaskin spent years denying the homoerotic “subtext” of his movie, but eventually owned up to it decades later. Roger tells Margaret and Gladys to hide in a closet. Similarly, The Silence of the Lambs had one queer character be its serial killing villain (Buffalo Bill could be read as either a gay man and/or a transsexual).
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