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- IN 2004, GAY SLASHER ‘HELLBENT’ WAS AN ANOMALY; IN 2020, IT STILL IS
- GAY PRI MONTH: HELLBENT
- HELLBENT: THE FIRST GAY SLASHER FILM
- GAY SLASHER FILM NOW HELLBENT
IN 2004, GAY SLASHER ‘HELLBENT’ WAS AN ANOMALY; IN 2020, IT STILL IS
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Centerg around a group of young gay and bisexual men, this film tak place a world where beg LGBTQ+ is the norm and not the exceptn. This isn’t a film featurg a handful of gay characters operatg a majory straight world.
Gary Floyd, the openly gay lead sger of punk band Dicks, screams the group’s song “Lifetime Problems” over the openg creds. The lyrics ll out both the vlence and homophobia queer people face, and also clar self opposn to the heteronormative liftyle embraced by so many.
GAY PRI MONTH: HELLBENT
Hellbent wasn't everythg we'd wanted a gay slasher film, but got a hell of a lot closer than anythg before . Read all about here! * hellbent gay *
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When he reveals himself to be an attractive young gay man, he seals his fate.
Or would he face homophobia at work, jt like many other queer people who are jt dog their jobs? To this day, Hellbent is one of the only films where a gay man sav his lover such a dramatic and actn-packed way.
HELLBENT: THE FIRST GAY SLASHER FILM
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Later that night, a group of gay kids ci to vis to the se of the murrs.
GAY SLASHER FILM NOW HELLBENT
2004’s Hellbent was lled the “first gay slasher.” Let’s say ’s the first openly gay slasher. Four queer iends are stalked by a masked killer at a Halloween Carnival. The men are likeable and ’s sad to watch their fat. The wrers chose to tell nothg about the killer’s inty or motiv. For some… * hellbent gay *
Later that night, a group of gay kids ci to vis to the se of the productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Hont gay men are out for a night of fun at the famo Wt Hollywood Halloween Carnival but make the big mistake to moon at a mcular fella wearg a horny mask. They are fun lovg young men celebratg who they are (as opposed to so many miserable gay characters of the past stgglg wh their sexualy) and wty as hell, which mak for some funny l here and there. "Hellbent" is actually ls of a gay movie for a strictly gay dience than is a pure pop-rn movie for any open-md movie goer lookg for a genue good time.
Hellbent is ostensibly regnized as the first out gay slasher wh s own killer and s own sexy victim pool. The three producers had h on the ia of a gay slasher around 2000.
“The Fal Girl, ” “The Slut, ” “The Ingenue, ” and “The Tough Guy” then put his own gay slant on each of them. I unrstand pullg the tropey archetyp om straight horror films and givg them a ltle gay twist, but he had the opportuny here to create a film that stead pulled om our own muny for s characters.
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To clarify, you have an entirely straight st of actors who are somehow expected to not only embody gay rol but also force those gay rol back to somewhat straight trop.
All I’m sayg is that no amount of straightns was gog to make this film palatable to a wir straight dience of Bubbas, so why not throw utn to the wd and jt go for livg your bt, gay, out and proud horror life? Now, anyone who has spent anytime on gay datg apps knows that masculy is often fetishized and placed at a premium, and y, I know this movie me out long before those apps, but I nnot help but thk this le was directly poted at that part of our muny. They created a gay slasher film that gaed notoriety even if was only certa circl.
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Two gay men on a date are murred the night before Halloween Wt Hollywood, California.
Proclaimed the “first gay slasher film”, this film liv up to s name and expectatn. Not only do we get a killer lurkg the shadows, slowly killg each member of the group off one by one – but they’re all gay. Better yet, the fact that our leads are gay don’t actually matter.
(After all, mastream horror films ’s often the gay guy who gets killed early on). They really uld have amped up the special effects and gore, but perhaps the odst flaw is how much they held back on the gay factor.
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It’s fely a gay film, buy unlike the slasher genre self, sex is actually not a huge part of the storyle. 2004’s Hellbent was lled the “first gay slasher. ” Let’s say ’s the first openly gay slasher.
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The homophobe hunter this year’s They/Them is a rare exceptn. HellbentMotn Picture Ratg: RProductn Company: Sneak Preview EntertamentDirector(s): Pl Etheredge-OuztsWrer(s): Pl Etheredge-OuztsCast: Dylan Ferg, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris, Andrew Levas, Matt Phillips, Nick NameGenre: Actn, Drama, Horror, ThrillerRelease Date: 06/26/2004RepFour gay iends try to navigate the Halloween Carnival Wt Hollywood, while beg stalked by a serial killer. Spoiler Level: MorateReviewAs a gay man who grew up the 1970s and 80s and who lov horror films, I never felt that I was fully reprented the horror genre.
If a movie clud a gay character, they were ually a cliché or the big bad. Films general, propagated the stereotypil notn that gay men were overly effemate, and women were masculized, and both were often ed for ic relief. There were art hoe movi and low budget films that strived to pensate for this, but really there weren’t many wi released mastream genre films that portrayed real gay men and women.