(Thanks for the movie recommendations!!) You mentioned What's the Matter With Helen? being one of your favorites lesbian horrors, do you have more to recommend?
Yes! I have a few lesbian recs. Note that many of these are not explicitly gay and more subtextual, but its still definitely there and they're worth watching!
The Haunting (1963): this is a 60s horror movie based on the Haunting of Hillhouse book and RIFE with queer text/subtext. It's shockingly overt for being so old! Very good movie, more psychological than scary but still has a chilling feel.
Rebecca (1940): adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier book, VERY good and gothic and haunting.
Vampyros Lesbos (1971): There's a shockingly popular exploitation sub genre in the 70s thats ALL lesbian vampires. Most of it is wild and campy and trashy and pretty graphic, this one is the most famous. It sucks but it delightfully fun. The Vampire Lovers is probably the next most famous!
The Blood Spattered Bride (1972): This is my fave of the lesbian vampire 70s movies I think. It's a Carmila adaptation and actually has a plot! which I can't say for the others lol.
Twins of Evil (1971): weird religious trauma, and even weirder sisters. Not technically lesbian but lots of subtext, super gothic/flowers in the attic vibe.
Gingersnaps (2000) : speaking of sisters and subtext, this is one of my faves for gay vibes without being outwardly gay. The teenage girl werewolf movie of your dreams, unhinged and bloody.
Thelma (2017): full disclosure, I have not watched this one closely, I had it on in the background on a client's request as I tattooed, but it sounded awesome and what I saw was awesome and it seemed like it was a lesbian teenage witch/telepath narrative? Not sure but it had a happy ending and I plan to watch it again some day, paying attention
All Cheerleaders Die(2010): a fantastically meta rape revenge/slasher movie. Very aware of its genres and super fun. I have not watched it since my freshman year of college but I remember LOVING it.
May(2002): lots of body horror, very very weird and unsettling, Frankenstien meets Carrie.
Heavenly Creatures (1994): I dunno if this really counts as horror but I fucking love it so it's on the list. One of Kate Wislet's earliest movies, directed by....wait for it...PETER JACKSON pre LOTR?? It's about girls so obsessed with each other they commit matricide.
The Craft (1996): The ultimate teen coven/witch movie, one of my all time faves. It's not explicitly but WOW is it better if you view it this way. Nancy's obsession with Sarah....I have thoughts. This movie made me gay, sorry.
Make a Wish! (2002): this is an absolutely terrible movie, but it is the only lesbian movie in the weird surge of gay slasher movies which happened in the 2000s. It was billed as Lesbian Psyho and I think thats pretty...innacurate and arrogant but it's still really fun. Think, the L word but with a murderer haha.
Les Diaboliques (1955): if there's a lesbian psycho, it's this one. this movie is about a man's mistress and his wife plotting to kill him and it's VERY SEXY and queer coded and loaded with subtext. Not really horror, more of a thriller, but a great Hayes code era movie.
Cat People (1942): this is another very Hayes code gay style movie...lots of subtext and stuff about otherness and hidden identities. About a woman who is trying to conceal she can shapeshift into a cat. Feels very much like a metaphor for coming out/hiding one's sexuality.
The Descent (2005): Not explicitly gay at all, in fact the conflict between the main women is because one cheated with the other's husband, but the girls weekend set up and the intense tension between the all female cast...it has vibes. It's really scary and good too.
The Sentinel (1977): this is not explicitly gay, it's a haunting/religious horror/vampire sort of movie....but the side characters all feel very queer coded and it's sort of gay panic narrative. WILD cast.
The Hunger (1983): David Bowie as a villain, lesbian sex between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Denue. Who cares if the rest of the movie sucks haha.
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