'Queer for Fear': From Dracula to Norman Bates, new docuseries brings horror out of the closet

I wanted to like this series more than I did. There were some interesting storylines like the gay themes in Hitchcock’s movie but so much of it was redundant. By the end of the third episode, if a black and white movie clip popped on the screen, my boyfriend and I would say to each other “Let me guess…the monster is repressed homosexuality.”

A lot of the commentators were the sort of generic edgelords who fetish their “queer” identity to piss off straights and normies. And consider themselves victims. There’s a lot about victimhood. What it lacks is any sort of sense of humor or fun.

Queer, just like us.

Also, Norman Bates isn’t gay. It is his sexual desire for his female victims that fuels his psychotic breaks. And he isn’t transgender either. He doesn’t believe he is a woman. He believes he’s his mother.

There is perhaps one of the most direct and expository scenes in movie history where a psychiatrist spells this all out. There’s nothing left open to interpretation. It is what it says on the tin.

The idea that he is gay is a homophobic notion promoted by film scholars of the past who couldn’t look past Perkins being gay and still conflated homosexuality with deviancy. That “queer” film scholars of today have embraced this theory is bizarre.

Ugh...the "q" word.

The original definition of "queer": strange; odd.

The original definition of "gay": keenly alive and exuberant : having or inducing high spirits

I prefer gay.

Headline in 2080:

“From Fags to Gags! How the Fag community revolutionized horror.”

Or “sodomites”, “perverts”, “deviants” - take your pick of any gay slur. ^

r4 Queer contains much more than just gay.

Lol^. Okiedokie. Use it, gay men won’t do anything about it. Gay men don’t do anything about anything.

I hate the usual gay commentators who appear in these types of documoneygrabs