A review by mihrreader
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

3.75

It was pretty eye opening to re-experience horror movies through other queer lenses and see how one piece of media can mean many different things to many different people. I understood before that the queer community tends to have a deeper and more personal affinity for horror, and the extent of that understanding was limited to camp and gender-bending villains, but now I see there are more (and sadder) reasons for it. Many essays touch on the theme of young queer and trans people, especially those who came of age during the AIDS crisis, feeling monstrous in some way and thus relating to horror movie monsters. Reading about that opened my eyes to how lucky I am to not have that same relation to monsters, murderers, and horror. This book is definitely in some ways a queer history book.
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