The spookit, and gayt, time of year is here!
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- SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI
- ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
SEARCH ALL 259 GAY HORROR MOVI LGBT HORROR MOVI
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Before homosexualy was formally legislated out of existence Hollywood by the Productn Co — monly referred to as the Hays Co, which tablished mandat for “moral standards” motn pictur and banned pictns of “sexual perversy” — the legendary filmmaker Jam Whale was buildg the foundatn for Amerin genre cema wh films like Frankenste, The Old Dark Hoe, and The Invisible Man. Here was Whale, a gay man, buildg horror his own image and havg astoundg box office succs as some groups were lobbyg Hollywood to censor queerns out of existence. Now we n choose om a lbian domtic drama volvg a baby werewolf Good Manners, a transfemist vampire movie B, or a French slasher set a gay porn muny wh Knife + Heart.
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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.
‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY
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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. Her actors droppg like fli, producer Anne tak the vtigatn to her own hands, all while shootg a new film of her own spired by the murrs lled “Homocidal.
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While s self-appoted tle as “the first gay horror flick” isn’t exactly te, Hellbent serv cred for fully gog for , pecially 2004.
There’s no subtext here, no monster—or victim—as a metaphor for the gay experience: It’s about a bunch of geo, ripped gay dus gettg picked off one by one while celebratg Halloween Wt Hollywood.
And, hey, for 2002, ’s downright groundbreakg that a film about a group of out, gay women was ma at all. While some earlier films do clu overtly gay them, thgs went unrground durg the Hays Co era, and the reverberatns of that subversive queerns rema uful to this day.