They/Them Review: A Slasher Go to Gay Conversn Camp Clever Horror Movie

Contents:

• BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP
• THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE

BARBIE SAID “GAY RIGHTS!” LONG BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE OR GRETA GERWIG SHOWED UP

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THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE

It also amped up s gay-iendly mp factor wh not jt more theatril actrsg, but some queer unrton. Horror films have moved om the subtly d lbian 1963’s “The Hntg” to the then-reer-skg gayns of 1985’s “Nightmare on Elm Street, to the wholehearted embrace of Sam and Deena’s relatnship Netflix’s “Fear Street” cred: MGM“The Hntg” (1963)While the character of Theo the 2018 Netflix limed seri “The Hntg of Hill Hoe” was openly gay, almost all the referenc to her beg a lbian were removed om Robert Wise’s still-effective classic about a psychic vtigatn to the notorly hnted Hill Hoe.

Claire Bloom, who played the chic character the 1963 film, later told the Motn Picture Archive that Theo was “very obvly gay” a scene om the script that was cut out. How gay is ?