ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits a staple text of the second wave of the Gothic, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and compares its sexual and gender dissidence with an unlikely text, the 2009 comedy-horror film Jennifer’s Body . In Stoker’s novel, this dissidence provides horror and an erotic thrill when same-sex desires and unconventional gender expressions collide with hegemonic bourgeois Victorian ideals. Stoker thus casts the vampire as the representative of the Other, the phallic woman, or the man desiring men. Jennifer’s Body revisits this aspect but focuses on the victims of male homosociality in providing an updated, feminist perspective on gender(ed) horror.
