Watch the Trailer for ‘M3gan,’ the Gay Inter’s Latt Horror Obssn | Them

Contents:

• A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.
• $100M AND A SEQUEL THE WORKS: WHY HAS M3GAN BEE SUCH A H (AND A GAY IN)?
• MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN
• M3GAN EMBRAC BEG A GAY IN IN INTERVIEW: ‘I HAVE NO INTENTN OF LETTG THEM DOWN’
• HOW A CREEPY DANCE AND INSTANT GAY IN STAT TURNED ‘M3GAN’ INTO A BOX OFFICE SMASH
• 'HACKS' STAR MEGAN STALTER TALKS VIRAL 'HI, GAY' VIO, QUEER REPRENTATN COMEDY
• MEGAN GAY(III)
• MEGAN GAY
• MEGAN GAY

A DOLL THAT WEARS SUNGLASS WH ATTU? OH, ‘M3GAN’ IS A GAY MOVIE.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTReporter’s NotebookThe tle robot — remiscent of the loyal but msy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progrs for a genre wh a shameful killer doll “M3gan” is fashnable, knowg and PicturPublished Jan. “M3gan” is also a w for gay movi. And y, “M3gan” is a gay movie, or more accurately a movie wh a foundatnally gay sensibily — the gayt non-gay horror film to make a splash sce “The Babadook” beme a subversive Pri mast six years be clear: The only thg flamg “M3gan” is the explosive fale.

$100M AND A SEQUEL THE WORKS: WHY HAS M3GAN BEE SUCH A H (AND A GAY IN)?

” The queer publitn them lled the film “the gay Inter’s new horror obssn.

”As the cematographer for “The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, ” a horror-themed drag petn on Shudr, and a gay man, Brent Bailey knows about the tersectn of queerns and srs. He thks “M3gan” is gay, too, and ’s straight women who make so. “Gays, we love a woman charge, and the three ma characters of this movie are women, ” said Bailey, who saw the film Los Angel.

“Gay men have always loved movi about female relatnships.

MEET M3GAN, THE GAY INTER’S NEW HORROR OBSSN

” He poted to “Thelma & Louise” but also “Drop Dead Geo, ” the 1999 darkly ic bety-pageant mockumentary, addg, “Even though they aren’t specifilly gay, they’re about strong femal.

That the film is about three strong female characters is a draw for gay viewers, said the cematographer Brent Short/Universal PicturIn a vio terview om his native New Zealand, Johnstone said he had an klg that queer fans would go for “M3gan. “I’ve had awome support om gay people my short reer, ” said Johnstone, a straight married man wh kids. “As a non-gay person, I try not to make assumptns about why a gay person lik this movie, ” he said.

M3GAN EMBRAC BEG A GAY IN IN INTERVIEW: ‘I HAVE NO INTENTN OF LETTG THEM DOWN’

I’ll tell you why: Bee gay men are protective of women like M3gan, the geo and loyal but msy and solent on. ) We nsir our M3gans to be fay, and we will fight you if you even look at them fd M3gan’s gay roots, flip the lendar back to October, when Universal dropped the first trailer.

A gay perfect storm helped go viral: It was Natnal Comg Out Day and Halloween month. Gay stan Megan Thee Stalln tweeted . ” I’ll bet my “Like a Virg” tour T-shirt that a gay man Universal’s marketg partment knows a girl who danc like that and said, Keep .

HOW A CREEPY DANCE AND INSTANT GAY IN STAT TURNED ‘M3GAN’ INTO A BOX OFFICE SMASH

Tst trailer’s gayns might not be readily apparent.

He said that what’s drawg gay ey to M3gan is more than good Rtg Bch Face. It’s that dualy — big sister and butcher — that many gay men see a kship, and an aspiratn.

Universal Pictur“Gay men have historilly been seen as ls than and weaker, mentally and physilly, and we know that’s not the se, ” Valle said.

'HACKS' STAR MEGAN STALTER TALKS VIRAL 'HI, GAY' VIO, QUEER REPRENTATN COMEDY

Viewers’ embrace of “M3gan” wh their relatively lewarm rponse to “Bros, ” an unqutnably gay movie. “Bros” was nsired a bomb, and as much as I hate to say this as a longtime gay movie fan, I get .

The marketg felt sperate, remiscent of the time 1997 that I went to “Kiss Me, Guido” on openg weekend bee I felt obliged to make somebody notice that gay men would spend money to see gay movi. Sce then I’ve seen tons of movi about hot but secure gay characters searchg for love, but I’ve never seen a horror movie that’s gay the way “M3gan” is: fashnable, knowg, cuttg. Watchg the “M3gan” trailer ma me want to see do matter that “M3gan” is gay?

MEGAN GAY(III)

Jason” lled Freddy Keger a gay slur and I felt like I’d been bullied on the playground as cheers filled the has a shameful past when to queer people so, yeah, I’m gog to celebrate when a “fierce bch android lady, ” as Bailey lled M3gan, be part of a ltle girl’s chosen asi the slghter, and I’d want her produced by Kate Wslett. Well, is a tth universally acknowledged that a film posssn of a female villa mt be want of a rabid gay fanbase.

This is simply (do some socpathic sh)Her gays: hontly, work— Adam Friedland (@AdamFriedland) July 10, 2019. That ronat for a lot of people the gay muny, the ia of found fay. Unlike Morbi’ Jared Leto, M3gan is a gay in – full earntns.

MEGAN GAY

"I actually asked one of my iends who is a gay man about that and he was sayg this set-up is actually found fay, where this ltle girl has lost her fay, and she has to go live wh her nt. If you thk the gay ter’s obssn wh M3GAN is jt about an android dog a mmerizg dance, then you need to go see the movie.

She mak me thk of the Magic Fields song “I Wish I Had an Evil Tw, ” or the recent “behd every gay person is a gayer, more evil gay person” meme.

MEGAN GAY

AI and queerns — ’s all unfaiar and unnny evil AI-powered doll is already pturg hearts and There’s fely a reason that “dolls” is trans slang, that Chucky was created by an out gay filmmaker, and why Barbie is such a popular drag look. I’m not sure we’ve seen the last of her In short: murr is acceptable if gay people like you and/or the people you kill are, like, really, really annoyg. The M3gan trailer jt brought the notn of chosen fay to a whole new you haven’t already been troduced to our new favore horror girlie, then feast your ey on gay Twter’s newt obssn: a malevolent AI-powered doll that seems sted to bee a mega-popular 2023 Halloween two-mute preview of the forthg Universal horror movie troduc to Cady (Vlet McGraw), a child who has been orphaned, and her nt, Gemma (Allison Williams), who’s takg her .