Black queer writer/director Bill Gunn’s 1973 vampiric horror classic GANJA & HESS, starring Duane Jones and Marlene Clark.

Trans and Muxe identity is explored in the 2024 Mexican series THE SECRET OF THE RIVER (El secreto del río) – now streaming on Netflix!

Mark Patton stars in the 1985 queer cult classic A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE.

Out writer/directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse’s wonderfully gay 2023 horror-comedy SUMMONING SYLVIA.

Agnes Moorehead and Lenita Lane are “roommates” in the 1959 thriller THE BAT.

Director Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 slasher flick THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE features a screenplay by queer author and activist Rita Mae Brown.

Physique model Gary Conway becomes the monstrous object of fixation for the queer-coded Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell) in Herbert L. Strock’s 1957 horror film I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN.

In the bizarre and wonderfully camp 1994 horror flick TAMMY & THE T-REX, Tammy (Denise Richards) and her gay best friend Byron (Theo Forsett) try to save her T-Rex boyfriend (Paul Walker).

If you’re looking for something spooky to watch this Halloween, check out this list of lesbian vampire classics from the 1960s/70s.

Jill Schoelen and Tom Villard star in the 1991 meta slasher film POPCORN.

Isabél Zuaa and Marjorie Estiano star in Brazilian writer/directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s 2017 sapphic werewolf film GOOD MANNERS (As Boas Maneiras).

Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie & Susan Sarandon star in Tony Scott’s 1983 classic queer vampire film THE HUNGER.

Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart star in iconic gay director James Whale’s 1933 pre-code Hollywood horror film THE INVISIBLE MAN.

Aisha Dee stars in the 2022 queer Australian horror film SISSY.

Jean Engstrom plays a stylish queer-coded interior designer in the 1957 horror flick VOODOO ISLAND.