Scary gay

We hope there are some discoveries here for even the biggest horror fan. Watching all three in a row would make for a fun night in, especially if accompanied by delivery pizza and 2-liters of soda to really lean into the 90s nostalgia. When this movie first came out, I was a big fan.

What a joy! This list was originally published in October and has been updated and expanded for And her toxic relationship with her ex is a compelling driving force for the mythology. Easily the campiest of the Netflix Flanaverse, The Fall of the House of Usher is somehow both very morbid and very fun.

I recently revisited this film, which I originally saw in theaters many times before I came out, and it holds up for a lot of the reasons I was obsessed with it in the first place.

Top 100 Gay Horror

Cast Hunter Schafer in more horror, Hollywood! For queer fans who want to go back to some classics of the queer horror subtext canon, Cat People is an essential watch. Bored and frustrated with their lives as students at an obscure college in impoverished New Haven, Connecticut, they decide to teach a self-important classmate, Andy, a lesson by raping him.

Beauty and brutality are twisted sisters in this ballet psychological thriller packed with haunting performances. Here was Whale, a gay man, building horror in his own image and having astounding box office success as some groups were lobbying Hollywood to censor queerness out of existence.

And be sure to do a deep dive on every episode with our recaps. Made after the introduction of the Hays Code, efforts were made to remove any lesbianism from the film, but they did not succeed. Fortunately, they weren’t creative enough to gay the big bad Other away.

She absolutely slays here. Legendary writer Clive Barker, himself an openly gay man, captured this tension well when he described the “reactionary” undercurrent of much horror fiction. “It’s usually about a return to the status quo — the monster is the outsider who must be banished from the sanctum,” the Hellraiser writer-director once said.

Of the three interconnected but aesthetically distinct Fear Street installments, part one, which mimics 90s-style slashers is undoubtedly my favorite. They range from fun and campy to truly horrifying to truly horrifying and fun and campy.

This list has all-time greats, hidden gems, and recent faves. Bodies Bodies Bodies is one of the best new slashers to come out in recent years. It was just so rare to see a queer trans woman on-screen! But hey! The streaming platforms are then listed below each title.

A Tale of Homo-cidal Mania! This movie about a lesbian whose girlfriend is more in love with her dog than with her very much falls into the latter category. Some of its problems — gay plotting and theme — feel more glaring. One of the earliest lesbian films, this Dracula sequel pulls just as much from the scary vampiric literary classic, Carmilla.

And in a movie about separatist lesbian vampires starring Nicole Maines? Come for the fact that just about every character is queer and hot ; stay for the actually pretty juicy critique of Big Pharma and corporate empires.

Gay sex buddies Nathan and Justin are united by their passion for slasher, vigilante, serial killer and zombie films. In the past, this list was sorted by streamer, but a lot of these films and shows are scary on multiple platforms and as it grew, it made more sense to instead present them alphabetically.

While there may not any explicit kissing, there is a lot of suggestive glances and hovering.