Tag: horror

bundyspooks:

In the movie American Psycho, Christian Bale based the main character on a Letterman interview featuring Tom Cruise in 1999. When asked about the inspiration behind Patrick Bateman, he replied:

“Tom Cruise on David Letterman had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes.”

Any titles with LGBT content? (Even seriously horrible ones, there can be value in watching those, too, as long as you know tha,t for example, Sleepaway Camp is not a good example of representation. ^_^ )

brundleflyforawhiteguy:

scix-in-the-back-row:

brundleflyforawhiteguy:

I love Sleepaway Camp and wrote an entire article about the problems with its representation and boy, what a shitstorm that unleashed. 

Like any horror movies in general with LGBT content? Sure. I’m just gonna list off the first ones that pop into my head:

  • Bride of Chucky
  • Seed of Chucky 
  • Curse of Chucky
  • The Haunting
  • High Tension
  • Planet Terror
  • Otto: Or, Up With Dead People
  • Cursed
  • Contracted
  • Single White Female
  • Deep Red
  • Tenebre
  • Driller Killer
  • Dahmer
  • All Cheerleaders Die
  • Martyrs
  • May
  • Nightbreed
  • The Hunger
  • We Are the Night 

I know there’s a ton more I can’t think of right now. I’m really just going with whatever comes to mind off the top of my head. 

Particular shoutout to Tenebre, though, which features not only lesbian/bi representation, but casts a trans actress in a pivotal role without really drawing any attention to it, particularly impressive for 1982. 

I was unaware of LGBT content int he Chuckie franchise. I’m surprised.

I love that you included Otto, one of my favorite cult films.

Nightbreed? I must have missed it. 

Oh, God, Hunger, I remember being somewhat pleasantly confused by that when I watched it way too young.

I guess I missed it in The Haunting, too. Maybe I am not as observant as I thought. ^_^ For the rest, some I’ve seen and some not yet. 

Where is this article on Sleepaway? I’d love to read it (but will probably avoid the comments/replies)

Here’s the article on Sleepaway Camp. Luckily, the responses only got ugly when it was shared on Facebook. 

Don Mancini, who created the Child’s Play series and wrote or co-wrote all of the films is a gay man and injected some of his own experiences as well as his influences from LGBT-themed films into the series. Bride of Chucky features an openly gay male character, a fairly traditional Gay Best Friend type but with healthy correlations to Randy from Scream. 

Seed of Chucky is a Big Gay Movie. It’s all about Chucky raising a child who is unsure of their gender and about how parents try to enforce a gender or specific type of identity on their child that the kid is often really not comfortable with. And Curse of Chucky features a very open lesbian subplot. 

Nightbreed, being written by Clive Barker, is full of gay themes about being on the fringe of society and having to repress your true self. But the two on far right in this picture are indeed together. 

As for the Haunting, the lesbian subtext (which is barely subtext) in the novel and the original film were disowned by author Shirley Jackson, who was pretty much the only person who didn’t see it. But it’s clearly there. In the 1999 remake, the Catherine Zeta Jones character embodies all of these traits in a much more explicit way. Kind of that remake’s only saving grace, but still.