Horror has a lock on making sapphic love seem trivial
In the tropey world of horror, few have it worse off than the bumbling, buxom straight ladies literally tripping over themselves while attempting to escape a slowly approaching killer. But if you pause those scenes and look to the moonlit lake at the back of the frame, you may notice a rising contender, the situationally queer women written into the script to make out just once, and real quick, before something violent and horrific happens right as things are about to get good. It’s already been well-established in horror that if two characters are romantically connected, and those characters are shown engaging in anything more than a brisk kiss on the lips, one or both of those characters will end up being an insane murderer, or hacked into pieces before the credits roll. Now, snap your fingers and turn both of those characters into women and, though the established trope may remain the same, the twist of the knife will now be that the duration of their romantic connection need only last as long as …
