{"id":280684,"date":"2025-11-13T00:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:55:30","slug":"the-melbourne-queer-film-festival-and-a-history-of-queer-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280684\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melbourne Queer Film Festival and a history of queer horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening credits of The Serpent\u2019s Skin are unusually specific: we are told that we are watching \u201cA transgender film by Alice Maio Mackay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHistorically, horror has always been queer, whether that\u2019s been explicit or more subtle,\u201d Maio Mackay tells Crikey. The foreground of trans identity in the credits was \u201cto indicate to the audience from the get-go, that this was a trans film made by a trans artist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dark yet humane gothic romance, The Serpent\u2019s Skin is one of several horror films playing at this year\u2019s Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening credits of The Serpent\u2019s Skin are unusually specific: we are told that we are watching \u201cA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,47144,2331,134,1689,134545,30735,46786,162460,344,46785],"class_list":["post-280684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cinema","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-gender-and-sexuality","tag-horror-films","tag-lgbtqia","tag-melbourne-queen-film-festival","tag-movies","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}