The spookit, and gayt, time of year is here!
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This past weekend alone, two new featur jo this exclive cema non: They/Them, Peack’s clever gay nversn mp riff on the formula, and Bodi Bodi Bodi, A24’s Gen Z skewerg horror-edy. It’s a well-documented fact that the gays love a good horror movie—the history of sry cema is rife wh allegori for the LGBTQ experience (sometim tentnal, sometim not).
But that’s changed recent years, as a number of films have phed beyond mere lip-service to actually build unique horror narrativ around gay protagonists and them. To qualify, the films need to have at least one LGBTQ lead role—and while we n’t exactly speak for the killers themselv, we’re pretty sure that buff unirn is gay.
When a lbian uple is abducted om their b--the-woods getaway weekend, they fd themselv at the hands of torturo homophob. From The Rus and Swallowed director Carter Smh, the film follows a group of gay men and their straight gal pal on an annual trip to the sert (almost certaly Palm Sprgs) for New Year’s Eve, where they engage the tular game to sre a smooch as the clock turns twelve. It’s the summer of 1979 France, and a masked serial killer is stalkg gay adult film stars, offg them wh phallic prosthetic that’s been fashned to a swchbla.