8/30/2023 0 Comments 25 most paused movie momentsA lot of times lists like these can have an air of pretension and authority about them - and don’t get us wrong, we do consider ourselves to be an authority on queer and trans horror - but horror, as Drew wrote herself, is a very democratized genre. We hope queer horror from around the world is made more widely available. We hope the future of queer horror is less white and less cis. This is the first iteration of this list for Autostraddle, and we’d love to see it grow, expand, and shift. For example, you won’t find High Tension or any one-note trans killers on this list. We’ve also done our best to pick iconic LGBTQ+ horror movie moments in which the horror and violence is not inherently homophobic or transphobic. We only included films with subtext if that subtext is so overt it has been accepted as the text - films made by or with queer creators, films confirmed queer by us and fellow queer horror critics such as those found in Shudder’s other docuseries Queer for Fear. On a similar note, all of the movies on this list feature “explicitly” queer content. Why include cis queer men at all? Well, the movies we ended up including that center queer men are groundbreaking, important to the genre, and frequently overlooked. In our minds, this makeup is basically the inverse of a lot of mainstream lists of this nature, which usually tip the scales in favor of works by and about cis queer men and throw just a few slots to the dykes. We decided to open this list up to the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum, but because this is Autostraddle, we are focusing on movies that feature lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer women and nonbinary people rather than cis queer men. We’re sure there are other movies from around the world that belong on this list that have not been distributed in the U.S. And even though between the two of us we watch a wide variety of horror subgenres, there will always be gaps including a few international movies that could have qualified, but proved impossible to find such as 2014 Japanese horror film Gekijōban Zero (also called Fatal Frame) about young lesbians at a Catholic all-girls school and the 2019 Hindi-language film Ghost about a woman murdered by the spirit of her vengeful dead ex-girlfriend. “Scariest” especially is a subjective category. As with all lists, no matter how much effort goes into a goal of objectivity, there’s always a lot of subjectivity. We’ve been working on this list for over a month, but we’ve both been immersed in queer and trans horror for many years. Kayla was introduced to it more recently by her girlfriend because for the first twentyish years of her life she avoided scary movies and for the past decade has been voraciously catching up. Drew watched it obsessively in her youth writing down all the films with a pen and paper and then hunting them down from Blockbuster. The horror co-hosts of Autostraddle’s 25 Scariest Queer Movie Moments - Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya - have different relationships with the original Bravo list. The new list includes plenty of overlap with the original as well as a lot of new entries, especially of films released between 2004 and now. This year, Shudder debuted its own take on the cult classic, The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time, an eight-part series that will conclude later this month. Featuring bloody, haunting, terrifying clips from some of the most revered horror movies of all time along with talking head deep-dives provided by actors, directors, writers, critics, and horror experts, the special was the go-to televised compendium for all things horror. In October 2004, Bravo first aired its iconic five-part docuseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.Grab your popcorn, get your remote at the ready and settle in. If you thought it was all raunchy sex scenes, then you’re wrong (mostly), there are some fan conspiracies and much more in here too. I’ve scoured the internet to get inside the brains of many an avid movie buff, to see what the most paused movie moments of all time are – it’s an interesting read. Have you stopped to think what it was like way back when, in the time of the VHS? It was way more difficult than skipping back on our DVD’s a few seconds before we continued on our merry way. Whatever it is, you can bet that if you’re pausing it, so are millions of others. What exactly makes us hit pause? It can be a sexy scene that we can’t get enough of or a moment that we’ve heard about that is so highly anticipated it stops the show. That’s why when eagle eyed audiences catch moments that make us go ‘WTF?’ we reach out with our Cheetos dust fingers and hit that pause button. Why? Let’s think. Every detail is meticulously planned out, down to a T. Millions of dollars go into these blockbusters that can be a hit or a miss at the box office.
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