Horror films are fascinating for what they reveal about the cultures which created them. The history of queer representation within the genre extends well beyond film as a medium, seen in literary works like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) and, of course, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), which have literally shaped horror films as they’ve always been known. If we understand that the monster is a symbol or metaphor for social anxiety, then the vampire is perhaps most notoriously queer. Nevertheless, the subject of queerness in horror extends well beyond this one …
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