🎃 Caleb Reed’s Queer Horror Guide: October 2025

October is the one time of year everyone pretends to love monsters. But queer people always have. Horror was never straight—its monsters, final girls, and outsiders have carried queer DNA for more than a century. This year, streaming platforms have turned October into a haunted house built for us. Here’s your map.


đŸ‘» Netflix

  • Monster: The Ed Gein Story – Ryan Murphy digs into the killer behind Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Horror as history, queerness and monstrosity blurred.

  • Boots – A closeted gay teen enlists in the ’90s military. No ghosts, no ghouls—just the horror of being seen.

  • Wayward – Mae Martin’s queer-tinged miniseries about secrets and violence in a small town.

  • Nobody Wants This, Season 2 – Queer romantic drama. Proof that intimacy can be just as frightening as a haunted house.

  • Interview with the Vampire (series) – Anne Rice’s homoerotic vampires, now fully out of the coffin. They go where I imagine Tom Cruise refused
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đŸ©ž Shudder (The Queer Horror Motherlode)

  • Queer for Fear (docuseries) – The definitive look at horror’s queer roots.

  • Knife + Heart (2018) – Gay porn studio meets slasher playground. Pure queer camp.

  • Hellraiser (1987) – Clive Barker’s puzzle box of desire and pain.


🩇 HBO (Max - or whatever they go by now)


đŸȘŠ Prime Video

  • Jennifer’s Body (2009) – Once maligned, now the sapphic cult classic of our age.

  • Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) – Gen Z queer chaos with blood and comedy.

  • Saint Maud (2019) – Religious repression and obsession turned into gothic horror.

  • Bit (2020) – Lesbian vampires running wild in Los Angeles.

  • The Hunger (1983) – Bowie, Deneuve, and lesbian vampires wrapped in silk.

  • Seance – Boarding school slasher with queer characters at the center.



đŸ•žïž Hulu / Disney+ Star

  • What We Do in the Shadows – Vampires who are all, frankly, very queer.

  • American Horror Story (archives) – Murphy’s eternal gay camp disguised as anthology horror. Stick to the earlier seasons, the later season are almost unwatchable. Coven is my favorite season. You can’t beat Jessica Lange’s performance in this one.

🧛 Classics Worth the Hunt (Rent or Stream Where You Can)


🔼 Closing Note

Horror has always belonged to the queer imagination. The monsters were us in costume, the haunted houses our closets. The difference now? Streaming doesn’t bother hiding it. This October, the haunted house is wide open—and it’s fabulous.


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