num_pages: 298
description: Through the lens of horrorfrom Halloween to Hereditaryqueer and trans writers consider the films that deepened amplified and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist and often homo- and transphobic the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropessuch as the circumspect and resilient final girl body possession costumed villains secret identities and things that lurk in the closetspark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to mirror and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world.It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifers Body Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers and many more these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.
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title: It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY