Oh definitely, horror is a broad genre with a lot of different takes and by and large I think we're just meming here with how reductive we're being, but you make excellent points about how modern vampire stories have reclaimed queerness from a genre that can definitely be read as homophobic.
Similarly I'm reminded of works like Lovecraft Country and Winter Tide that foreground Lovecraft's racism and attempt to reclaim them by turning the narrative to the horror of being persecuted for being a marginalized group, by centering the narrative from the Pov of what would traditionally be the villains in Lovecraft's work.
Edit: Like imo personally my favorite horror is when the monster is actually capitalism, racism or patriarchy- like in Get Out, because of course we're all :LIB: here
Similarly I’m reminded of works like Lovecraft Country and Winter Tide that foreground Lovecraft’s racism and attempt to reclaim them by turning the narrative to the horror of being persecuted for being a marginalized group, by centering the narrative from the Pov of what would traditionally be the villains in Lovecraft’s work.
I've thought for a while that this would be a great approach to Lovecraft. Something like The Shadow over Innsmouth, but written by an immigrant who's also a marine biologist and describes Dagon as a dude that just wants to vibe under the waves. I love the whole Cthulhu mythos, but there's something so ridiculously stuck up about it, like cmon dude, are you seriously scared of soap bubbles? It's just ripe to be deconstructed a bit.
Oh definitely, horror is a broad genre with a lot of different takes and by and large I think we're just meming here with how reductive we're being, but you make excellent points about how modern vampire stories have reclaimed queerness from a genre that can definitely be read as homophobic.
Similarly I'm reminded of works like Lovecraft Country and Winter Tide that foreground Lovecraft's racism and attempt to reclaim them by turning the narrative to the horror of being persecuted for being a marginalized group, by centering the narrative from the Pov of what would traditionally be the villains in Lovecraft's work.
Edit: Like imo personally my favorite horror is when the monster is actually capitalism, racism or patriarchy- like in Get Out, because of course we're all :LIB: here
I've thought for a while that this would be a great approach to Lovecraft. Something like The Shadow over Innsmouth, but written by an immigrant who's also a marine biologist and describes Dagon as a dude that just wants to vibe under the waves. I love the whole Cthulhu mythos, but there's something so ridiculously stuck up about it, like cmon dude, are you seriously scared of soap bubbles? It's just ripe to be deconstructed a bit.