Gay star Clifton Webb plays the queer-coded villain Waldo Lydecker in the 1944 film-noir classic LAURA.

Disney loves a queer-coded villain, and their classic 1985

film RETURN TO OZ features two of them.

Physique model Gary Conway becomes the monstrous object of fixation for the queer-coded Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell) in Herbert L. Strock’s 1957 horror film I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN.

If you’re looking for something spooky to watch this Halloween, check out this list of lesbian vampire classics from the 1960s/70s.

Jill Schoelen and Tom Villard star in the 1991 meta slasher film POPCORN.

Aisha Dee stars in the 2022 queer Australian horror film SISSY.

Bill Nighy plays a gay investigator in director Juan Carlos Medina’s 2016 queer Victorian-era horror film THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM, which is based on the 1994 novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem” by gay author Peter Ackroyd.

Michael York and Anthony Higgins in Harold Prince’s 1970 independent dark comedy SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE, which was loosely based on Harry Kressing’s 1965 novel “The Cook” and adapted by gay writer Hugh Wheeler.

Matt Damon and Jude Law star in Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation of lesbian author Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

Lauren Bacall is Amy, a queer-coded heiress, in the 1950 Michael Curtiz film YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, based on Dorothy Baker’s popular 1938 novel of the same name.

Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox star in director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Diablo Cody’s 2009 bisexual horror classic JENNIFER’S BODY. The film was Diablo Cody’s follow-up project after winning the Academy Award for penning JUNO in 2007 (Best Original Screenplay).

The 1950 women-in-prison flick CAGED! was based on notes and observations made by writer Virginia Kellogg who spent time undercover in the US prison system.

Writer/director Lucky McKee’s 2002 queer horror flick MAY.

Scar (Jeremy Irons) in Disney’s 1994 animated feature THE LION KING is one in a long line of queer-coded villains in Disney films.

Rico (Edward G. Robinson) and Otero (George E. Stone) are queer-coded gangsters in Mervyn LeRoy’s 1931 pre-code Hollywood film adaptation of W.R. Burnett’s 1929 novel “Little Caesar.”