I started this massive film-viewing endeavor with the last film on the list alphabetically — Zombieland (2009). After living through the last 16 months, I have a visceral understanding of Columbus's observation: "It's amazing how quickly things can go from bad to total shit storm."

The primary goal of my study about horror-loving queers for my book Queer for Fear was not to do the expected and identify a corpus of queer or queered horror films, but instead to evidence that the entire genre is queer. The 4,107 queer horror fans who completed my