Honorable Mentions

1974  |  Italy
Director:  Paul Morrissey
Screenwriter:  Paul Morrissey, Pat Hackett, Bram Stoker

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Warhol-era bisexual camp vampirism served with decadent artsy bloodlust.

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2021  |  USA
Director:  James Wan
Screenwriter:  James Wan, Ingrid Bisu, Akela Cooper

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

Gender-bending camp, giallo theatrics, and a killer reveal adored by queer fans

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2017  |  USA
Director:  Patrick Brice
Screenwriter:  Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass

After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.

A bisexual filmmaker and a queer lead make this slasher weirdly intimate.

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2016  |  USA
Director:  Anna Biller
Screenwriter:  Anna Biller

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

Queer-aesthetic icon; camp, glamour, and occult sexuality.

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2015  |  USA
Director:  Robert Eggers
Screenwriter:  Robert Eggers

In the 1630s in New England, a Separatist family set up their home near a darkened woods. But a mysterious dark force enters their lives and begins to affect their five children in odd ways. When crops begin to fail and their newborn son disappears completely, the family is driven to the brink of madness.

Queer-coded liberation narrative; outsider becomes powerful through transgression.

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2013  |  USA
Director:  Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson
Screenwriter:  Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson

When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Mäddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. After a confrontation with the football team, Mäddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape.

Campy, sapphic-coded teen horror; strong queer fanbase.

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2022  |  USA
Director:  Addison Heimann
Screenwriter:  Addison Heimann

A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.

A gay man spirals into a furry nightmare of trauma and hallucinations.

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1981  |  USA  
Director:   Frank LaLoggia
Screenwriter:  Frank LaLoggia

Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.

A gay-coded antichrist teen unleashes homoerotic supernatural mayhem.

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1955  |  France
Director:  Henri-Georges Clouzot
Screenwriter:  Jérôme Géronimi; Henri-Georges Clouzot

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Lesbian-coded murder, betrayal, and bathtub tension in a french classic.

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2009  |  USA
Director:  Ti West
Screenwriter:  Ti West

A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

Queer-coded final girl energy, satanic slow-burn dread, and the kind of cult aesthetic the gays claim without even asking.

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2002  |  USA
Director:  Michael Rymer
Screenwriter:  Scott Abbott; Michael Petroni

Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music awakens Akasha, the vampire queen, who may not rest until she makes Lestat her new king.

Bisexual vamp goddess Aaliyah seduces mortals in goth-rock queer excess.

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2021  |  USA
Director:  Emily Bennett; Justin Brooks
Screenwriter:  Emily Bennett; Justin Brooks

As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face..

A lesbian unravels in a haunted apartment of jealousy, memory, and dread.

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2012  |  Japan
Director:  Shinichi Fukazawa
Screenwriter:  Shinichi Fukazawa

After a surprise phone call interrupts his daily workout, beefy body builder Naoto agrees to meet his photojournalist ex-girlfriend to help with her research on haunted houses. Accompanied by a professional psychic, they visit an abandoned house once owned by Naoto's father. But inside the house a dark secret lingers and they find themselves trapped and tormented by a relentless ghost with a 30 year grudge.

Campy queer-coded Japanese splatter with muscle thirst and demonic sweat.

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2005  |  Cameroon
Director:  Jean-Pierre Bekolo
Screenwriter:  Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Best friends Majolie and Chouchou are two beautiful young women trying to get ahead in a near-future Cameroon. After accidentally killing a powerful politician during sex, the two come up with a plot to dispose of the body, and get into the glamorous wakes that have taken over the local nightlife.

Afrofuturist lesbian-coded vampire noir dripping with political bite.

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2022  |  USA
Director:  Damon Thomas
Screenwriter:  Jenna Lamia

The year is 1988. Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. After an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different, which leads Abby to suspect her best friend may be possessed by a demon. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

Sapphic teen friendship turns demonic in this 80s-coded possession romp.

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