Profs & Pints Baltimore: Horror as Queer

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Horror as Queer,” a look at the influence and depiction of queerness in horror films, with May Santiago, adjunct professor of film studies at George Mason University and producer of the podcast Horrorspiria.

[Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating.]

Horror was queer long before both Brad and Janet succumbed to the charms of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In fact, one could make the argument that, for both better and worse, the history of horror films is the history of queers on film. Film scholar May Santiago will do just that, with plenty of vivid examples, in a talk that has earned rave reviews.

You’ll learn how queer auteurs such as F.W. Murnau and James Whale were there at the very beginning. Murnau played a central role in the German expressionist movement that gave…