Queer Female Horror Movies
List activity
2.2K views
• 64 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
- 445 titles
- DirectorCody JarrettStarsKristi RussellAriadne ShafferRobert Patrick BrinkA mutant frog that emerges from the water and wants to reproduce with the only species that matches it genetically: human women. Dr. Barbara Michaels, an EPA agent who realizes what is happening before anyone else.This one is on top, because it's the only horror movie I know of which has lesbian lead character in a non-tragic protagonist role.
I could make a long list on how amateurish it sometimes gets, but while watching it was continuously entertaining. And I don't mean in a so-bad-it's-good way.
The worst thing perhaps was the frog-man himself. I usually don't judge a low budget movie by its special effects. But the frog-man even looks worse than Octaman.
Strangely enough none of the imdb reviewers seem to understand why the lead character is gay. Most of them compare it to the 70's exploitation genre or to Troma pictures, commenting only on the sex scenes, as if these were meant to attract an all straight male audience. Just one reviewer understood this wasn't the case and immediately trashes it at propaganda. Well it isn't about that either of course, but he made a few understandable points. In gay male (horror) movies females are usually ignored or presented as fag hags. Not always - but it happens a lot. In Frog-g-g! most males are represented as brutal, loudmouthed, aggressive, sexist slobs. I agree it tastes a bit like a simplistic feminist statement. But it didn't bother me very much. I've seen so many straight horror movies that present women as helpless scream queens. It's equally naive.
The story is very familiar. Basically it's an old-fashioned monster movie like for instance The Horror of Party Beach (1964), Brides of Blood (1968), Octaman (1971), Spawn of the Slithes (1978) and Humanoids from the Deep (1980). Toxic waste has caused some serious mutations in animal and plant life. A female scientist, accompanied by her girlfriend, discovers it, but the local sheriff doesn't believe her.
It's a nice film. I've rated it generously a 6, mainly because of its entertaining values. - DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsNatalie PortmanMila KunisVincent CasselNina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
- DirectorWilliam HellfireStarsErin BrownAnoushkaDarian CaineMisty and Ruby are a couple who run a lesbian bar in New Jersey when their lives change one night with the arrival of a seductive woman (Anoushka) who bites Misty, thus starting her slow transformation into a werewolf. Anoushka the werewolf returns to her home in London, England where she gives an interview to a young reporter about her life as a werewolf, while back in America, Misty undergoes a slow transformation into a werewolf herself which may lead to danger for Ruby, and any other woman involved.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie HarrisClaire BloomRichard JohnsonHill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.My thoughts about this movie are somehow contradicting. I agree it's a good movie and of important historic significance to the horror genre of cinema. But I don't think it's as big a masterpiece as 'The Innocents' or 'Night of the Demon'. I really wonder how much credits it should deserve solely on base of its presumed originality. It's even difficult to determine the originality of the book 'The Haunting of Hill House' on which it is based. Well to me at least. For instance, there are several similarities between this book and the William Castle movie 'The House on Haunted Hill'. The title to begin with. Both feature a group of strangers who have to spend the night together in a spooky mansion where a lot of evil things happened in the past. And in both cases a charismatic gentleman was responsible for this setup. But the gentleman's wife - again in both cases - turns up as some kind of non-cooperative outsider to the group. Each one features a creepy caretaker couple. A hysteric girl, a skeptic non-believing, all-American young guy. Can this all be just a coincidence?
Probably, because both were made in 1959. Although there was some time between the two. The William Castle movie had its release date on February 17, 1959. Shirley Jackson's short novel was published by The Viking Press in October...
The movie itself also has some odd similarities with some of its predecessors. The scene where Eleanor drives to Hill House, to flee her past but unaware of a far more gruesome destiny, reminded me of Psycho. When she drives her car through the gate, even the music shares some resemblance!
The way Hill House was 'portrayed' against a background of clouds, somehow looked very artificial. It reminded me of some Roger Corman flick. Can't remember which one. The House of Usher or The Terror... (have to re-watch them both). At the first glance I immediately tried to figure out whether it was created by the use of a mat painting or perhaps a miniature model of the house. Well, I was wrong. I just read that this effect was achieved by the use of infrared film stock. However it didn't work for me. Just like a bad Photoshop assembly never convinces.
The most remarkable scenes in this movie are those when things literally go bump in the night, as well as those involving the spiral staircase.
I really wonder why some reviewers assume the possibility that the events at Hill House never actually happen, but are just figments of Eleanor's imagination. Because we all see that the pounding noises, the rattling doorknobs and the bending doors are noted by the other characters. This in contrast to 'The Innocents', in which really never is made clear whether the ghosts are for real or not.
I don't think the cinematography is nearly as beautiful as in 'The Innocents' or 'Night of the Demon'. Neither do I think the editing is as clever as in for instance 'Psycho', just to name one. The sets lacked some credibility too. The lighting could have been more effectifly adjusted, I guess. The camerawork was rather decent.
This movie features a lesbian supporting character. Although never mentioned, it's quite obvious.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good movie. And it's very entertaining. I rated it an 8, since it has a decent imdb average rating of 7.7. It shouldn't rise. If it surpasses 'The Innocents' I will change my vote. - DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsBoris KarloffBeverly TylerMurvyn VyeA scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.A rather openly lesbian character. A supporting role. Very unusual for it's time.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsLaurence OlivierJoan FontaineGeorge SandersA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.Lesbian Subtext
- DirectorTony ScottStarsCatherine DeneuveDavid BowieSusan SarandonA love triangle develops between a vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.
- DirectorKevin TenneyStarsJoshua BentonSarah Grant BrendeckeMichelle TomlinsonThe story of six people caught in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep.I like this movie. Very entertaining. I will write a little review about it later on.
One of the supporting characters is a lesbian. Not really a nice characterization. I have mixed feelings about that. The emancipation of gays still is far from what it should be. Nevertheless one can hardly demand every gay character in a movie to be likable. But at the same time, there've already been so much movies made with unlikable homosexuals. And it continues to go on, to some degree.
Well, as said, I've mixed feelings about this aspect. But it wasn't bad enough to spoil the fun while watching. - DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsIngrid PittPippa SteelMadeline SmithSeductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.Lesbian Vampires
- DirectorJosé Ramón LarrazStarsMarianne MorrisAnulka DziubinskaMurray BrownA pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.Lesbian vampires
- DirectorRafal ZielinskiStarsRenée HumphreyAlicia WittWilliam R. MosesHillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and on a rising wave of frenzy later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMelanie LynskeyKate WinsletSarah PeirseTwo teenage girls share a unique bond: their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
- DirectorMax KalmanowiczStarsMartin ShakarGil RogersGale GarnettA nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.Lesbian couple (supporting roles)
- DirectorJames DunnisonStarsAlex HouseMaggie CastleBill TurnbullJenny begins a lesbian relationship, causing the girl's jealous twin sister to use the book, creating clones armies of the sisters who battle it out in the school hallways. Hannah creates Todd a special suit so he can sense Pure Evil.
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
- DirectorKaryn KusamaStarsMegan FoxAmanda SeyfriedAdam BrodyA newly-possessed high-school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
- DirectorThom FitzgeraldStarsShelby FennerShawn AshmoreTony DenmanTara Talbot (Victoria Sanchez) is afflicted with the rare genetic condition known as hypertrichosis - she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's (Tim Curry's) Travelling Freak Show, on display as the "Terrifying Wolf Girl", but underneath she is just a teenage girl who longs to be normal.Spoiler: At the end there's the revealing of the repressed lesbianism of one of the characters
- DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsCécile de FranceMaïwennPhilippe NahonBest friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.Lesbian subtext
- DirectorPascal LaugierStarsMorjana AlaouiMylène JampanoïCatherine BéginA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.Lesbian subtext
- DirectorNeil MarshallStarsShauna MacdonaldNatalie MendozaAlex ReidA caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.Lesbian subtext
- DirectorDonato RotunnoStarsLeelee SobieskiTara FitzgeraldChristian OlsonAn art teacher is hired as nanny for 2 orphans, a boy and girl, at a huge, isolated country estate. The nanny starts seeing dead, former employees. Is she mad or is the estate haunted?
- DirectorVicente ArandaStarsSimón AndreuMaribel MartínAlexandra BastedoNewlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.Lesbian vampire
- DirectorDarin FerriolaStarsWilliam BassettHoward BergerJaime BergmanTwo thieves down on their luck get hired to steal the Rock of Lazarus, an ancient relic capable of returning evil souls to earth.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsMel FerrerElsa MartinelliAnnette StroybergA young heiress - jealous of her cousin's engagement to another woman - becomes obsessed with the legend of a vampire ancestor, who supposedly murdered the young brides of the man she loved.
- DirectorBradley Rust GrayStarsRiley KeoughJuno TempleKylie MinogueDiane's feelings for Jack -- the girl she met over the summer -- begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways when she learns that her friend will soon be moving away.
