1973  |  USA
Director:  William Friedkin
Screenwriter:  William Peter Blatty

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Religious repression and bodily rebellion merge into a queer-coded crisis of faith.

1958  |  UK
Director:  Terence Fisher
Screenwriter:  Jimmy Sangster

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Classic gothic vampirism dripping in sensual, queer-coded menace.

2006  |  USA
Director:  Renny Harlin
Screenwriter:  J.S. Cardone

Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.

Shirtless magic bros flex, fight, and flirt with blatant homoerotic energy.

1956  |  USA
Director:  Mervyn LeRoy
Screenwriter:  John Lee Mahin

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

1950s “born different” panic mirrors queer-coded deviance horror.

1996  |  USA
Director:  Andrew Fleming
Screenwriter:  Peter Filardi

A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.

Witchy outsiders form a queer-coded found family with killer eyeliner.

1990 |  UK/Canada
Director:  Philip Ridley
Screenwriter:  Philip Ridley

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

Queer-coded rural terror soaked in sun, decay, and whispered desire.

1971  |  USA
Director:  Stephanie Rothman
Screenwriter:  Charles S. Swartz

A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.

70s lesbian vamp seduces couples under desert sun and satin sheets.

2016  |  USA
Director:  Michael O’Shea
Screenwriter:  Michael O’Shea

When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.

A queer-coded lonely teen uses vampirism to survive trauma and cruelty.

2000  |  USA
Director:  Mary Harron
Screenwriter:  Mary Harron; Guinevere Turner

Patrick Bateman is an affluent investment banker who mixes only with the wealthy and beautiful people of society. But his perfect life is a facade, as petty narcissism and anxious competitiveness fuel everything that he does. In fact, Patrick Bateman is a rich and handsome psychopath who wants nothing more than to give in to his violent fantasies.

A closeted narcissist murders his way through his own fragile masculinity.

1982  |  France
Director:  Jean Rollin
Screenwriter:  Jean Rollin

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

Lesbian-coded undead romance drenched in euro-horror melancholy.