Wreck star Jam Phoon explas how Hamish embodi and subverts gay clich horror.
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- WRECK: THE ST AND CREATOR ON CREATG A ‘SUPER GAY’ HORROR-EDY
- SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI
- JAM PHOON TALKS WRECK AND FYG GAY STEREOTYP HORROR
WRECK: THE ST AND CREATOR ON CREATG A ‘SUPER GAY’ HORROR-EDY
The six-part horror-edy seri featur a number of gay characters trapped on a cise ship wh a myster and terrifyg killer. * wreck gay horror *
Wreck tells the story of Jamie (Osr Kennedy), a young gay man who sneaks onto the ele cise ship the Sacramentum to fd out what happened to his sister, who mysterly disappeared while workg there. Among the many trop often utilized horror media, Wreck avoids several overdone and harmful notns cludg typestg and the "bury your gays" trope. In Jamie’s first le of dialogue, he reflects on his experience Sheffield’s gay scene, while for Vivian, she retorts to a male character that she is “to girls”.
The LGBTQ+ wrer behd Wreck looks back on horror classics statg, “As a gay man and horror fan, I thk horror has always been queer, but ’s always d, and subtext. Brown has also emphasised that “Havg two gay leads the show that isn’t about them beg gay, or about their sexual inty any way, we don’t see that. Growg up gay has equipped them to be the perfect hero.
© 2022 GCN (Gay Communy News). The six-part seri featur a number of gay characters, cludg the show’s lead, 19-year-old Jamie (Ladhood’s Osr Kennedy).
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Speakg to Attu recently, Ryan, who intifi as gay explaed he wanted to create a “super gay” show wh thentic reprentatn. And I thk that’s what society needs to take om the show – you get pre-judged so much wh the label of beg trans or beg gay.
Gay reprentatn the show also extends to Vivian (The Irregulars’ Thada Graham) who is also out the show’s non of queer characters. Brown as, “a tense g-of-age story about a lost, gay kid om Sheffield propelled to uncharted waters of latg paranoia and self-disvery. For example, the seri’ first episo, Jamie sually mentns beg gay, and rather than stop for some unnecsary drama the scene rri on.
Speakg exclively to Attu ahead of the show’s release, Ryan explas he wanted to create somethg that was “super gay” and therefore the slasher-horror-edy genre seemed ial, which he jt so happens to love.
JAM PHOON TALKS WRECK AND FYG GAY STEREOTYP HORROR
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Wh a character like Jamie, episo one, you get breadcmbs of important rmatn but then episo two, he says he’s on the ship to fd his sister and she’s the only person that knew he was gay back home. So ’s almost a throwaway moment when Vivian asks ‘do people know you’re gay back home?
Growg up, the gay reprentatn that we saw on screen was pretty much jt a gay man.