As previously reported on Queerty, Kevin Bacon stars in a new movie from leading horror production company, Blumhouse.
Entitled They/Them, the film will follow a group of young people sent to an LGBTQ conversion camp.
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Yesterday, Blumhouse revealed the first images from the movie, which will debut on streamer Peacock on August 5. Bacon will play the role of Owen Whistler, the sinister founder of the Whistler Camp.
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The younger camp attendees are played by Theo Germaine, Quei Tann, Austin Crute, Monique Kim, Anna Lore, Cooper Koch and Darwin del Fabro.
They find themselves having to protect themselves from both the camp’s staff and an unknown killer.
Making his directorial debut is John Logan, the award-winning screenwriter of Gladiator, The Aviator and Hugo.
In a statement, Logan said, “They/Them has been germinating within me my whole life. I’ve loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent ‘the other’ and as a gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden.
“I wanted to make a movie that celebrates queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up. When people walk away from the movie, I hope they’re going to remember the incredible love that these kids have for each other and how that love needs to be protected and celebrated.”
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Bacon shared one of the images on his Instagram, saying, “Get ready…my new movie They/Them from the one and only @Blumhouse is streaming August 5 on @PeacockTV. I can’t wait for you to see this.”
Monique Kim was among the other cast members to also share images.
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Mister P
I’ll pass.
Diplomat
I would not watch a movie with that title.
Doug
Looks like the title has been changed to “Whistler Camp.”
theherald
What a whiny snowflake you are.
jt1990
You know it’s a horror movie when “they/them” is part of the title!
inbama
Oh, no!
Jason Voorhees comes back to life as a gender nullification surgeon!
smittoons
John Logan when he makes a historical drama? Brilliant.
John Logan when he makes anything genre? Eesh.
Even Penny Dreadful was not great – it looked good and had a great cast, but was still trashy.
inbama
I loved the first season, and the witch-themed season with Patti Lupone was fairly good.
But then it lost its way.
Frankenstein’s monster became Mr. Softee; his bride, a murderous Gloria Steinem; and Dracula was revealed as a pathetic pawn in Logan’s new religion.
Oddly, the worse it got and audiences tuned out, the more critics applauded.
“City of Angels” was also a mess. The strangest thing about it was critics failed to notice it covered the exact same territory as HBO’s “Perry Mason” reboot starring Mattew Rhys – which was in every way far superior.
Kangol2
The title is problematic. The scenarios seems both triggering and traumatizing to and for LGBTQ youth. A killer is hunting and haunting them, but do they all survive or does this film involve LGBTQ young people, who already experience more than enough psychic and physical violence, being killed off?
Even the association of gay/queer youth with monstrousness seems really wack particularly in a societal moment in which right-winger are targeting LGBTQ people and gay, queer and trans youth specifically. Does this Logan person live in a bubble? Perhaps the film is completely different than the writeup above suggests, but I think I’d have to pass unless it’s a revenge plot against the anti-gay/LGBTQ conversion fanatics, who are monsters!
theherald
I think it’s pretty sad that you don’t think LGBT people should be allowed to be in horror films. Ridiculous, even.
Kangol2
I think it’s “pretty sad” that you completely misread what I wrote but there you go. “Ridiculous, even.”
CKNJ
A gay director making a movie with positive gay characters, no matter the theme, is worth a watch, especially if it shows the queer kids standing together and fighting the obvious ‘bad guy’, the head of the conversion shit camp. I will give it a chance before writing it off.
Inspector 57
Thank you for that. I agree.
IanHunter
Now being called Whistler Camp
Original title: They/Them
valentin12
Because the original title They/Them was too complicated
Joshooeerr
The hysterical censoriousness of these comments makes me positively queasy. When did LGBT readers develop such closed minds?! FFS, it’s a concept that clearly is pro-LGBT, written and directed by a gay man (whose every project to date, like them or not, has been intelligent and high quality), starring an actor who has been consistent ally. Dial it down a notch or three and open your minds.
Diplomat
Unfortunately the irrational use of they / them has been a loosely fitted noose around America’s English language kneck to confuse the language and the public by trying to change these pronouns from plural to singular, a thing that 95% of the 200+ comments I’ve read are very very negative, yet many non binaries trans lgbt etc still push it.
I don’t think the movie producers did themselves any favors buy advertising the movie with an incitefully negative title unless their demographic aim was a mere 5% of the people.
inbama
@Diplomat
They’re actually bringing federal charges against middle school kids in Kiel, Wisconsin for failing to use they/them pronouns.
On kutv dot com.
IJelly
Not true. A kid requested their pronouns be changed. The school complied and now the parents of the kid are suing the school.
You are a monster. Go away.
theherald
That is of course completely untrue.
white-queer-african
@IJelly & @theherald, have you actually checked out the reporting before commentating? I tried but got blocked by the server of kutv dot com? I made the same mistake as both of you previously to just brush off @inbama’s comments, only to find out that I was wrong. For that I have apologized to @inbama. He is an alley.
So please check it out and confirm the reporting.
inbama
@the herald
Here is the headline from today’s Daily Mail in the UK: “Wisconsin mom says son, 13, was accused of SEXUAL HARASSMENT and hit with Title IX complaint for refusing to refer to non-binary classmate by ‘they/them’ pronouns.”
Unless you can cite some evidence to the contrary, perhgaps you shouldn’t anonymously accuse others of lying – when YOU obviously are.
And it’s beginning to look like you are a sock puppet of african-white-queen, IJelly and CAM – three accounts constantly harassing people posting actual information, claiming it’s wrong and providing no evidence. They’re just harassers.
theherald
So your headline from the UK tabloid proves you lied. You know that, right? There are no federal charges being brought against any middle school kids for using the wrong pronouns. None. Even the headline says it’s something the mom “says” is true and the mom is not saying there are any federal charges. I actually bothered to look it up and beyond the far-right nonsense, there are three boys being accused of sexual harassment. The non-binary student claims the boys harassed them and called them names and bullied them with the wrong pronouns. The boys claim they didn’t do that and merely didn’t want to say “they/them”. Who is lying? I don’t know, and neither do you. That’s why there is an investigation. But what we do know is that no federal charges have been brought against anyone. You just completely face-planted and are of too low intelligence to even realize it.
@white-queer-african, please be less of a gullible clown. This is anti-trans bait.
Diplomat
A single person wanting to force peeps or institutions to use the incorrect usage of established plural pronouns (they them) to address the singular himself or herself, causing confusion and consternation within society, should be directed back to their drawing board or sued for harassment.
bachy
Horror films have traditionally been loosely tied to misogyny: how many horror films heavily feature the slaying of female victims?
Horror is also combined with anti-sex or fear-of-sex: how many slasher film teens have we seen impaled, half naked, during the sexual act?
Recently, horror has been combined with racism in films like ‘Get Out’ – to great critical acclaim.
It will be interesting to see horror combined with homophobia in this new film. I saw a film several years ago (can’t remember the name of it) about an Australian serial killer focusing on gay male victims. I have to confess that I found it so horrifying I had to turn it off! Similarly, I was completely unable to stomach the gay murder scenes in ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.’
Jami Stardust
Mr. DIPLOMAT I assume you are a mister. EX: Someone walked past my house last night. I saw THEM out my window. I’m not sure what THEY were doing. A person, whose gender is unknown is properly given they/them pronouns. People who don’t have a gender should also be given they/them pronouns. Language changes everyday. Those who speak English as a native language, but live on different continents don’t agree on the same rules. The English language changed drastically with the advent of the King James Bible. It lost thousands of words because people used the bible to learn how to read. Thou hast forsaken thy braegen.
Diplomat
Your correct in that they them is used when gender is unknown. However, non binaries attach to both female and male internally but externally they are one or the other. Heme that’s is how we identify them as presenting male or female.
The bottom line here isn’t about sexual orientation etc it’s about ripping off a word that pisses a lot of people off and playing dumb when asked why.
The English language has never changed to accommodate a micro piece of the human race for no good reason. This confusion should not exist. The nons etc never should have signed off on such an explosive topic, unless of course they want negative attention for advertisement purposes.
We’ll see how Cawthorne does in his upcoming election.
Diplomat
Are you non binary?
Yes I am a man.
Diplomat
The story about the boys just broke on Fox news this morning and by noon there were over 4,000 comments.
I believe this they them thing was started by a republican to destroy Dems.
jt1990
@Diplomat If you’re right, I’d say that move certainly paid off! Dems and their dim witted followers totally embrace that nonsense. Goes to show Leftists will believe anything spewed by their cult, I mean party leaders, no matter how insane.
Inspector 57
I’ve watched “US” several times. Never seemed to me that it was anti-Black – even though an African-American family were the primary hunted (as well as the primary hunters).
Didn’t find “Candyman” racist, though both the targeted and the “bad guy” were Black.
I don’t think I’d’ve found them offensive even if I hadn’t known ahead of time that they are parts of Jordan Peale’s horror oeuvre.
johncp56
Kevin Bacon does evil good, I wonder If Mike Pence made a cameo,