Queer Frights & Delights to Stream for Halloween

Looking for some queer offerings for Halloween?! Here’s a list of 10 films and 1 limited series — ranging from pulpy slashers to campy oddities to gory feminist twists on Cronenberg — that say (gay) Halloween to us in some form or another. Below you’ll find Frameline47’s spookiest titles, a sensational pair of thrillers (both of which screened at Frameline) from director Sébastien Marnier, a lusty pansexual creature from beyond, a menacing Alicia Silverstone, a double dose of Rachel Weisz, a triple dose of Tilda Swinton, a cutthroat culinary art school, a monstrous musical allegory, a surreal, an apocalyptic end to a decadent affair between a filmmaker and her leading lady, and a dangerously alluring gentleman at a nude cruising beach. And scroll down to check out the list of 10 we put together for last year as well.

• birth/rebirth (2023), directed by Laura Moss, 🇺🇸, On Demand
• Perpetrator (2023), directed by Jennifer Reeder, 🇺🇸🇫🇷, Shudder/On Demand
• The Origin of Evil (L’origine du mal) (2022), directed by Sébastien Mariner, 🇫🇷 🇨🇦, On Demand
• School’s Out (L’heure de la sortie) (2018), directed by Sébastien Marnier, 🇫🇷, Shudder/On Demand
• Dead Ringers (2023), directed by Sean Durkin, Karena Evans, Karyn Kusama, & Lauren Wolkstein, 🇺🇸, Prime Video
• Flux Gourmet (2022), directed by Peter Strickland, 🇬🇧🇭🇺🇺🇸, Shudder/Hulu/On Demand
• Apocalypse After (Ultra pulpe) (2018), directed by Bertrand Mandico, 🇫🇷, MUBI/Shudder
• The Untamed (La región salvaje) (2016), directed by Amat Escalante, 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇴🇨🇭, Kanopy/On Demand
• Hideous (2022), directed by Yann Gonzalez, 🇬🇧, MUBI
• Suspiria (2018), directed by Luca Guadagnino, 🇮🇹 🇺🇸, Prime Video/On Demand
• Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du lac) (2013), directed by Alain Guiraudie, 🇫🇷, Kanopy/Prime Video

Happy Halloween, ghoulfriends! If 11 isn’t enough, here’s last year’s list of 10 of our favorite recent queer horror flicks (most of which we’ve played at the Festival or at our Halloween offshoot, Frameline Fangs). The list is pretty diverse, ranging from body horror to giallo spoofs to genre-linked documentaries to gothic fables to intergalactic lesbian westerns. Find the list below alongside where you can stream these dark delights!!

• Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), directed by Halina Reijn, 🇺🇸, Paramount+/On Demand
• Cut! (¡Corten!) (2021), directed by Marc Ferrer, 🇪🇸, Dekkoo/On Demand
• Sissy (2022), directed by Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes, 🇦🇺, Shudder/AMC+/On Demand
• Hypochondriac (2022), directed by Addison Heimann, 🇺🇸, On Demand
• The Demons of Dorothy (Les démons de Dorothy) (2021), directed by Alexis Langlois, 🇫🇷, Shudder/AMC+
• The Carnivores (2020), directed by Caleb Michael Johnson, 🇺🇸, Paramount+/On Demand
• Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019), directed by Tyler Jensen & Roman Chimienti, 🇺🇸, On Demand
• After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (After Blue (Paradis sale)) (2021), directed by Bertrand Mandico, 🇫🇷, Shudder/AMC+/On Demand
• You Won’t Be Alone (2022), directed by Goran Stolevski, 🇦🇺🇷🇸🇬🇧, Peacock/On Demand
• Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) (2018), directed by Yann Gonzalez, 🇫🇷🇲🇽🇨🇭, Shudder/Kanopy/AMC+/On Demand