The Melbourne Queer Film Festival and a history of queer horror

Opening credits Snake’s Skin it’s unusually specific: we’re told we’re watching “a transgender film by Alice Maio Mackay.”

“Historically, horror has always been weird, whether overt or more subtle,” says Maio Mackay. cricket. The foregrounding of trans identity in the credits was to “indicate to the audience from the beginning that this is a trans film made by a trans artist.”

A dark but humane gothic romance, Snake’s Skin is one of many horror films screening at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF).