Shudder made the excellent Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, but the streamer's newest documentary series looks like it'll be a must-watch. Queer for Fear looks at the horror genre through the lens of the queer community. Shudder released a lengthy clip from the first episode of the show.
When the documentary was started, it was a movie according to the speaker. 90 minutes wasn't enough to cover all of the material, as we got further into the interviews and all of these different people's points of view on horror stories and how they saw themselves in different ways represented by monsters and psychopaths Shudder said that we should become a multi- episode series. Every episode has something in common. The first episode is about queer storytellers who created the horror genre, including the screenwriters who penned Hitchhiker and James Whale. The second episode explores the queer themes that we all relate to, and it starts to build a vocabulary for the audience.
Beyond that, the four-part series will look at horror films from a new generation of queer creators, as well as horror films from the mid-20th century.
While it was being made, Queer for Fear is treading new ground in the documentary world. He thinks we all took it very seriously. If there was a version of this documentary that wasn't up to snuff, it would hurt future documentaries, or it would limit perception because that's where we are with any sort of story that's marginalized If you don't succeed, you don't get the chance to tell a story again. Shudder knew they needed to back this project in a way that would allow more access and a higher caliber of story being told. Everyone was aware of the need to do this right. That is the reason it has taken so long.
September 29th is when Queer for Fear will arrive on Shudder.
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