They/Them - LGBTQ+ empowering slasher film

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Peacock? Why not Peafronthole? I can't believe they could be so sexist

I hate their stupid name. How many people remember the peacock tail logo when they think of NBC anyway? I actually had to check to make sure it wasn't CBS. Just call yourself NBC+ or something.

Autism aside, is Kevin Bacon that hard up for cash? I love slashers but many modern ones suck. Sometimes they try to do something different, like Cabin In The Woods *love that "fuck the police" ending* but anything past the 80s tends to be stale and full of the same tropes because they haven't moved past the 80s in terms of creativity yet. The characters just have cellphones. But they're just as dumb and either it's too gory, has too many jump scares or fails to deliver a single character you would want to live.

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".

Well I don't think he'll reveal himself as a LGBTUV123 tranny so you are probably right.
 
Apparently the GNC’s are really not happy about this lol. I thought the majority retards on Letterboxd would eat it up regardless of quality but it’s being universally shat on there
 
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What a waste of a Blumhouse/Kevin Bacon pairing. Could've had a fun cheap generic thriller like The River Wild.
 
Hey Kevin? Suddenly tremors doesn't feel like such a low point in your career anymore doesn't it?

Also hot take by Cody leach (if the YouTube link works)
 
But tremors was a good movie :(
oh i know it's just that during the filming (allegedly) Kevin broke down crying and when asked what's wrong he replied "look at me! Doing a monster movie about giant worms!" He thought Tremors was gonna ruin him entirely. Well it sure didn't but damn if this movie doesn't shred what little dignity he had left.
 
I watched it, it was meh. Now I have the weird want of Disney to do a dark, gritty horror reboot of Heavyweights.
 
Watched it in the background while doing other things, it was a pretty crappy tier of slasher. I'd rate it far down, further than even some of the campier/lower budgeted 80s ones. The kills were boring, mostly axe deaths and one head pushed through a PC screen(and a lot of it was offscreen, as in, when someone was getting hacked to death, it cut away/panned out so you didn't really see the impacts etc). Heck, the first major death took an entire hour to happen, and there were only six deaths total. SIX. For an almost 2 hour runtime.
The killer made no real sense upon the reveal, and none of the characters were likeable or had enough proper development to be invested in what happened to them. Since the killer barely showed up, the mask design etc was wasted, as there was very little in the way of cool stalking scenes ala Friday 13th or Halloween. There was a lesbian oral scene and a naked gay sex scene, which were in full view and got, like, a few minutes each of runtime, but apparently showing cool, gory death scenes were a no-no. None of the camp kids gets killed, bar one, but he was a plant put there by Kevin Bacon's character to tempt one of the guys into having gay sex with, so they could do some aversion therapy on him. The killer is the camp's nurse, whose motivations make no sense, and it just kind of....ends. Kevin Bacon gets shoved onto a stuffed rhino head and impaled through the stomach, and then the police show up to arrest her and everyone is fine. No killing of the camp nurse, no slasher villain rising from the dead, nothing creative or dramatic. It just ends.
Overall, I have no idea what the point of anything was, cause even from an angle of 'conversion camps are bad' it failed to really tip into things too far, other than some pictures of like, sad bruised kids and stuff that one of them finds hidden away. It could have been something better and more interesting, but clearly whoever wrote it couldn't come up with anything cool or original besides the setting of a conversion camp.
 
Watched it in the background while doing other things, it was a pretty crappy tier of slasher. I'd rate it far down, further than even some of the campier/lower budgeted 80s ones. The kills were boring, mostly axe deaths and one head pushed through a PC screen(and a lot of it was offscreen, as in, when someone was getting hacked to death, it cut away/panned out so you didn't really see the impacts etc). Heck, the first major death took an entire hour to happen, and there were only six deaths total. SIX. For an almost 2 hour runtime.
The killer made no real sense upon the reveal, and none of the characters were likeable or had enough proper development to be invested in what happened to them. Since the killer barely showed up, the mask design etc was wasted, as there was very little in the way of cool stalking scenes ala Friday 13th or Halloween. There was a lesbian oral scene and a naked gay sex scene, which were in full view and got, like, a few minutes each of runtime, but apparently showing cool, gory death scenes were a no-no. None of the camp kids gets killed, bar one, but he was a plant put there by Kevin Bacon's character to tempt one of the guys into having gay sex with, so they could do some aversion therapy on him. The killer is the camp's nurse, whose motivations make no sense, and it just kind of....ends. Kevin Bacon gets shoved onto a stuffed rhino head and impaled through the stomach, and then the police show up to arrest her and everyone is fine. No killing of the camp nurse, no slasher villain rising from the dead, nothing creative or dramatic. It just ends.
Overall, I have no idea what the point of anything was, cause even from an angle of 'conversion camps are bad' it failed to really tip into things too far, other than some pictures of like, sad bruised kids and stuff that one of them finds hidden away. It could have been something better and more interesting, but clearly whoever wrote it couldn't come up with anything cool or original besides the setting of a conversion camp.
Wow that sounds like something not to do when writing a horror movie. Man Wokies really are uncreative
 
I got a notification for this and I thought it was an Ils remake at first.

Turns out it wasn't and I didn't miss out on anything.
 
This fucking movie never had an audience. Is quite impressive how after all these years, studios have not realized audiences (even the wokies) won’t just pretend the most basic literally me plots won’t resonate with them.

How many stories have either been hijacked or queer coded even though shit like this gets made? This is something you know as a creator. You don’t get to pick what people like and the harder you try to appeal to them, the worse it fails.
 
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.
I wonder if there would be a uproar if a gay serial killed an homophobe and the homophobe in question was a black guy or muslim? :thinking:
 
I wonder if there would be a uproar if a gay serial killed an homophobe and the homophobe in question was a black guy or muslim?
Eh this makes me think there could be a funny scene in some kind of black comedy horror movie.

Like they're all being chased by a native american hasidim in a wheelchair and one of the survivors logs onto twitter like "I need to cancel him but I don't know how"
 
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.
Well there was an early 1950s horror movie called "Them!". To think about, this actually could be remade. Giant ants troons coming out from the desert Tran Ranch to invade a Southwestern desert town the girls toilet of local elementary school...
 
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