2007  |  USA
Director:  Dan Gildark
Screenwriter:  Grant Cogswell

A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.

A gay man returns home and finds cosmic horror waiting in the closet.

2021  |  Canada
Director:  Pat Mills
Screenwriter:  Alyson Richards

Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.

A lesbian couple fights back when bigots turn the woods into a trap.

2008  |  Sweden
Director:  Tomas Alfredson
Screenwriter:  John Ajvide Lindqvist

When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.

Two lonely queer-coded kids find bloody companionship in the snow.

1991  |  USA
Director:  Todd Haynes
Screenwriter:  Todd Haynes

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

Todd haynes blends plague, desire, and queerness into experimental horror.

2017  |  Iceland
Director:  Erlingur Thoroddsen
Screenwriter:  Erlingur Thoroddsen

Months after they broke up, Gunnar receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar. He sounds distraught, like he's about to do something terrible to himself. Gunnar drives up to the secluded cabin where Einar is holed up and soon discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.

A gay couple confronts ghosts and heartbreak in icy icelandic dread.

1948 |  USA
Director:  Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter:  Arthur Laurents

Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.

Two queer-coded men turn murder into a twisted intellectual love game.

2004  |  USA
Director:  Don Mancini
Screenwriter:  Don Mancini

This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!

A genderfluid doll comes out while their killer parents cause chaos.

1990  |  USA
Director:  Clive Barker
Screenwriter:  Clive Barker

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.

Clive barker’s queer monster tribe celebrates freaks, misfits, and chosen family.

1973  |  USA
Director:  Richard Blackburn
Screenwriter:  Richard Blackburn

A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.

A sapphic vampire matriarch lures girls into dreamy, culty corruption.

1981  |  USA
Director:  William Asher
Screenwriter:  Michael Fisher, Alan Jay Glueckman

Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.

A gay detective versus homophobic killers in early queer-positive horror.