It Came from the Closet Queer Reflections on Horror
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Sarah Trimble, published by Feminist Press at the City University of New York in 2022, offers a collection of essays that explore the intersection of queer experiences and horror films. This edition spans 298 pages and is presented in English. The book examines how horror movies, while often rooted in misogyny and phobia, can also serve as platforms for subversive interpretations and reflections on identity.
Readers will find twenty-five essays from various queer and trans writers who delve into the complex relationship between their identities and the horror genre. Through discussions of films ranging from Halloween to Hereditary, contributors reflect on themes such as the resilient “final girl” and the eerie familiarity of common tropes. The essays highlight both empowering and oppressive connections, revealing how viewers navigate their own experiences within beloved films, seeking representations that resonate with their unique perspectives on queerness.
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Through the lens of horror–from Halloween to Hereditary–queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes–such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet–spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world.
It Came from the Closet features twenty-five essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.
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