Jennifer’s Body is a perfect embodiment of a very specific dilemma: Should I be turned on or scared right now? It’s also one of the most bisexual horror movies ever. We encourage you to share the queer and trans movie moments that have scared you the most in the comments! As a general warning, all of the blurbs contain spoilers for their respective movies. A lot of times lists like these can have an air of pretension and authority about them - and don’t get us wrong, we do consider ourselves to be an authority on queer and trans horror - but horror, as Drew wrote herself, is a very democratized genre.
We hope queer horror from around the world is made more widely available. We hope the future of queer horror is less white and less cis. This is the first iteration of this list for Autostraddle, and we’d love to see it grow, expand, and shift. For example, you won’t find High Tension or any one-note trans killers on this list. We’ve also done our best to pick iconic LGBTQ+ horror movie moments in which the horror and violence is not inherently homophobic or transphobic. We only included films with subtext if that subtext is so overt it has been accepted as the text - films made by or with queer creators, films confirmed queer by us and fellow queer horror critics such as those found in Shudder’s other docuseries Queer for Fear. On a similar note, all of the movies on this list feature “explicitly” queer content. Why include cis queer men at all? Well, the movies we ended up including that center queer men are groundbreaking, important to the genre, and frequently overlooked. In our minds, this makeup is basically the inverse of a lot of mainstream lists of this nature, which usually tip the scales in favor of works by and about cis queer men and throw just a few slots to the dykes. We decided to open this list up to the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum, but because this is Autostraddle, we are focusing on movies that feature lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer women and nonbinary people rather than cis queer men. We’re sure there are other movies from around the world that belong on this list that have not been distributed in the U.S. And even though between the two of us we watch a wide variety of horror subgenres, there will always be gaps including a few international movies that could have qualified, but proved impossible to find such as 2014 Japanese horror film Gekijōban Zero (also called Fatal Frame) about young lesbians at a Catholic all-girls school and the 2019 Hindi-language film Ghost about a woman murdered by the spirit of her vengeful dead ex-girlfriend. “Scariest” especially is a subjective category. As with all lists, no matter how much effort goes into a goal of objectivity, there’s always a lot of subjectivity. We’ve been working on this list for over a month, but we’ve both been immersed in queer and trans horror for many years. Kayla was introduced to it more recently by her girlfriend because for the first twentyish years of her life she avoided scary movies and for the past decade has been voraciously catching up. Drew watched it obsessively in her youth writing down all the films with a pen and paper and then hunting them down from Blockbuster. The horror co-hosts of Autostraddle’s 25 Scariest Queer Movie Moments - Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya - have different relationships with the original Bravo list. The new list includes plenty of overlap with the original as well as a lot of new entries, especially of films released between 2004 and now.
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This year, Shudder debuted its own take on the cult classic, The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time, an eight-part series that will conclude later this month. Featuring bloody, haunting, terrifying clips from some of the most revered horror movies of all time along with talking head deep-dives provided by actors, directors, writers, critics, and horror experts, the special was the go-to televised compendium for all things horror. In October 2004, Bravo first aired its iconic five-part docuseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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