They/Them - LGBTQ+ empowering slasher film

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Synopsis: When a group of LGBTQ+ campers arrives at Whistler Camp - a conversion camp run by Owen Whistler (Kevin Bacon) - they are promised a “new sense of freedom” by the end of the week. But as the counselors attempt to psychologically break down each of the campers, a mysterious killer starts claiming victims, and they must reclaim their power if they’re going to survive the horrors of the camp. Written and directed by Academy Award nominee John Logan and produced by Jason Blum, They/Them is an empowering slasher film starring an ensemble cast that includes Carrie Preston, Anna Chlumsky, Theo Germaine, Quei Tann, Anna Lore, Monique Kim, Darwin del Fabro, Cooper Koch, and Austin Crute.
 
I just remembered that there's a Wes Craven presents film called They. I heard it really sucked.

Every movie that has "Wes Craven presents" on it just meant that they paid him to use his name.
 
A quick gentle reminder that while young people in America are identify more and more with the personal pronoun movement that is affiliated with the LGBTQ+, they are still a minuscule and small part of the American population.

Conclusion: This movie makes no sense.
 
Gonna take a guess that Kevin Bacon is the main villain and is the mastermind behind a hivemind of -ists who're murdering the gays at the camp and then co-opting their bodies to give the illusion that conversion therapy "works".
 
I saw the thumbnail and had to do a double take, it really is Kevin Bacon. You know I feel like "empowering slasher film" is sort of an oxymoron
 
So it's an "empowering" film intended to appeal to gay people......... and it's about a homophobic serial killer violently murdering a bunch of gay people. Seems a tad ill-conceived to me, but what do I know. Maybe it's aimed specifically at masochistic gays.
 
GoGoNoJo said:
So it's an "empowering" film intended to appeal to gay people......... and it's about a homophobic serial killer violently murdering a bunch of gay people. Seems a tad ill-conceived to me, but what do I know. Maybe it's aimed specifically at masochistic gays.
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Even if it is supposedly empowering, I feel as if the whole inspirational schtick would just undercut the horror part of the horror film.
 
GoGoNoJo said:
So it's an "empowering" film intended to appeal to gay people......... and it's about a homophobic serial killer violently murdering a bunch of gay people. Seems a tad ill-conceived to me, but what do I know. Maybe it's aimed specifically at masochistic gays.
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You ever see that piece of shit remake of Black Christmas from 2019? I guarantee you it'll be exactly like that. Exactly like that.
 
My best guess is that there's gonna be a controversy that lasts for maybe a week or two before the movie fades from the minds of everyone, never to be seen again.
 
I misread Kevin Bacon as Kevin Spacey at first, and I feel like that would've been the better choice for this movie.

GoGoNoJo said:
So it's an "empowering" film intended to appeal to gay people......... and it's about a homophobic serial killer violently murdering a bunch of gay people. Seems a tad ill-conceived to me, but what do I know. Maybe it's aimed specifically at masochistic gays.
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Killing off gay people is a common trope in TV and movies, so hardly innovative or empowering here. What would be a better idea here would be to poke fun at the trope, maybe something like having a gay serial killer picking off homophobes.

albert the programmer said:
A quick gentle reminder that while young people in America are identify more and more with the personal pronoun movement that is affiliated with the LGBTQ+, they are still a minuscule and small part of the American population.

Conclusion: This movie makes no sense.
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I think it's pretty clear that the NBC execs who greenlit this have no contact whatsoever with young people, LGBTQ people, and/or young LGBTQ people. Maybe they just had an intern browse Twitter for ideas--would explain why the characters look like walking stereotypes. I don't think zoomers really use Peacock either, so the target audience will never watch it.
 
Wishmaster is pretty fun if you go into it with expectations tempered.
 
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