Gay Scream Screenwrer Kev Williamson Remembers W Craven

Contents:

• KEV WILLIAMSON: ‘THE SCREAM MOVI ARE D GAY SURVIVAL’
• HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI
• ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER
• ‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS
• IS W CRAVEN GAY?
• [HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

KEV WILLIAMSON: ‘THE SCREAM MOVI ARE D GAY SURVIVAL’

“As a gay kid, I related to the fal girl and to her stggle bee ’s what one has to do to survive as a young gay kid, too.

Subnscly, I thk the Scream movi are d gay survival. ” He adds, however, that their nsistent stg of women beloved by gay men – such as Lrie Metlf, Parker Posey, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Carrie Fisher – was more of a cince than some big queer nspiracy.

“It’s a gay universe, I gus. The director, openly gay wrer, and non-bary star on the popular book seri' queer evolutn. Phil Graziai, the openly gay screenwrer behd Netflix’s new queer-clive film trilogy based on spook master R.

HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI

And he fely remembers them not beg very gay. That hasn’t stopped fans, as Graziai not, om talogg “all the homoerotic unrton of each book” for years. That “Fear Street” go beyond jt gay vib was one of the most excg parts of starrg the summer mp-set “Part Two: 1978” for non-bary actor Ryan Simpks, who they/them pronouns.

Even though the script didn’t intify Simpks’ Alice character as gay, they believed om the onset that she was. They were not wrong: “(Leigh and Ey) were like, ‘100 percent, Alice and Cdy are gay. Robert Englund says he spected A Nightmare on Elm Street was sted to have a large gay fan followg when he saw several drag queens drsed as his star Heather Langenkamp's character, Nancy Thompson, at a stume party 1985.

"Lookg back more than 30 years after the first film the anchise slashed s way to pop culture history, Englund has a theory why the first heroe of Elm Street and the actrs who played her fiercely ronated wh gay horror fans. "There's always been a great affectn the gay muny, and I share this om my pot of view as a heterosexual, for the survivor and the diva, " he says.

ROBERT ENGLUND AND THE GAY SI OF FREDDY KEGER

"That strong woman thg that gay men the '40s and '50s intified wh actrs like Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, there was a transference gog on the early '80s bee there was no Bette Davis then. I thk young teen boys and girls the late '70s and early '80s who were gay ma their transference wh characters like the survivor girl, which is a great gredient of the horror movie, startg wh Jamie Lee Curtis and g to full blossom wh Heather's character Nancy. "So that area where gay culture and Hollywood crossover, Heather hered some of those fans and I thk that's why Nancy beme that supplemental diva for the gay muny.

"While Nancy hooked a new generatn of gay horror fans the origal Elm Street adventure, was the film's first sequel that reeled them for more. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge took a bold turn by replacg the tradnal "fal girl" wh male protagonist Jse Walsh, played by gay actor Mark Patton.

‘SCREAM’ SCREENWRER KEV WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS BILLY AND STU’S QUEER-COD RELATNSHIP WAS BASED ON REAL GAY KILLERS

The movie also ntaed gay subtext purposefully woven to the script by screenwrer David Chask, which was further highlighted by stylistic choic ma durg filmg. Most members of the sequel's productn team have nied they were aware of the gay unrton throughout Nightmare 2 over the years. Branch of London's Royal Amy of Dramatic Art attribut that portn of his tn to the many gay iends he ma durg the early days of his reer.

"So I had many gay iends and I crashed on uch at their ho when I started out as a workg actor.

IS W CRAVEN GAY?

"In fact, my first time New York I was stayg wh a buddy who was one of the stars of Fortune Men's Ey and his roommate, Bobby, who happened to be gay, favored mk ats, and uld make the bt poor man's tequila sunrise wh lemona and orange juice. "I thk people tend to fet was a different atmosphere for gay people the '70s before AIDS.

"The growg homophobia and panic AIDS brought wh angered Englund, and he rells the exact moment he realized the epimic had bee a full-blown crisis. "Early on, the Nightmare on Elm Street films were seen as a sort of outsir art before they beme overhyped, and they were embraced by var cultur -- not jt gay culture, but piercg culture, goth culture, the blends of those cultur, heavy metal kids, and so on. Englund speculat the new film won't be another remake of the origal and hop stead for a bolr choice: a new film based on Nightmare 2 that embrac the 1985 sequel's gay subtext.

If you’re still wonrg about those homoerotic unrton 25 years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher terrorized Woodsboro W Craven’s “Scream, ” you’ve been on the right track all along. Ahead of the new “Scream, ” out Friday, openly gay screenwrer of the first “Scream, ” Kev Williamson, has nfirmed that Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu (Matthew Lillard), who are thought to be queer by many LGBTQ+ fan theorists, were based on famo mass murrers Nathan Frnthal Leopold Jr.

[HORROR QUEERS] GAYG UP THE BIGGT HORROR FRANCHISE OF THE 90S WH ‘SCREAM’!

And Richard Albert Loeb, both of whom reportedly admted they were gay and a relatnship. ” Both are noted for their homoeroticism.

“It’s very sort of homoerotic, the sense that there were the two guys that killed this other person jt to see if they uld get away wh , ” Williamson said, drawg parallels between the Leopold and Loeb se and Billy and Stu. In one scene, Ray (Shawn Wayans), based on Stu, and Bobby (Jon Abrahams), based on Billy, joke about beg gay, divulgg to a Sidney-like character lled Cdy (Anna Faris) that, “That’s right, Cdy, I’m gay.