As the first Child’s Play stallment wh a gay lead, the new TV seri Chucky, airg now on Syfy and USA, is reclaimg a trope that’s dogged the slasher genre for s: that of the queer-d villa.
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- ‘CHUCKY’ SPOFF CENTERS A GAY TEEN LOVE STORY THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU CRY
- JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
- HOW DID CHUCKY GET SO GAY? LGBT IN JENNIFER TILLY DISH ON HORROR SAGA’S QUEERNS & WARNER BROS.’S RISTANCE TO THE LBIAN LOVE IN ‘BOUND’
- IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
- THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
‘CHUCKY’ SPOFF CENTERS A GAY TEEN LOVE STORY THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU CRY
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Longtime seri star Jennifer Tilly, who voic fan-favore character Tiffany, agre wh Manci's sentiment, sayg, “I thk a lot of the Chucky movi have been very gay iendly. In 2017, Cult of Chucky add another LGBTQ+ character wh Zak Santiago's Nurse Carlos, who intifi as gay.
JENNIFER TILLY EXPLAS HOW 'CHUCKY' BEME THE QUEERT SHOW ON TELEVISN: 'IT'S A GIFT TO THE GAY MUNY'
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Chucky is changg the horror game once the latt, fifth episo of the Chucky TV seri, Jake, the 14-year-old gay protagonist got his first kiss, and uldn't have happened a better and his iend Devon have been gettg closer all season, dancg around their feelgs.
The two actors are perfectly adorable, brgg to life a young first gay kiss. 1634695696The Chucky TV seri, which airs on Syfy and the USA work, is created by Don Manci, the gay man who origally started the Child's Play movie anchise.
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He wanted to make the star of this new Chucky seri gay orr to brg some much need reprentatn to the horror genre. Christe is another a bullied kid gets supernatural revenge, you know, none of those movi has a sgle gay character them.
Longtime seri star Jennifer Tilly, who voic fan-favore character Tiffany, agreed and said, “I thk a lot of the Chucky movi have been very gay iendly. His protagonist, Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), is a 14-year- old gay boy and doll llector who fds Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) at a yard sale.
So I thk 's good to give kids who are horror fans someone to intify wh, " he for his film reer, Manci, 58, found the horror genre to be "a hospable place" for him as a young gay man startg out his 20s -- although he adms he was "relatively discreet" around stud executiv about his inty. Particularly as a gay guy, " he says. RELATED | Syfy's Chucky Will Have a Gay Protagonist.
IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?
Chucky is no Harvey Milk, but the killer doll wh fire-red hair om openly gay creator Don Manci is, at least, a good queer-affirmg dad. Dad, you * chucky gay pride *
In his new seri, Chucky go out of his way to show his allyship, gog so far as to murr our young hero Jake Wheeler's (Zackary Arthur) homophobic father Le (Devon Sawa) at the end of the first episo. Chucky killg Jake's homophobic father and tellg Jake that he has a queer kid of his own who he's ol wh (bee he's "not a monster") are jt scratchg the surface.
" So the fale, when Chucky Prime lash out one fal time by cricizg Devon and Jake for beg "so gay" before Jake strangl him to ath, 's not as hateful as uld be. "When he says 'That's so gay, ' 's almost like I n say that to one of my gay iends bee we're both gay, " Manci explas.
"I love tryg to keep h, but also jt the rponse to that I've heard om young gay horror fans, and that's who we did that for, was to give young queer horror fans reprentatn the lead a show, " Manci says. Manci has fed his work wh queer reprentatn, om characters who — like himself — are gay to stori about the spectm of genr inty.
THE UPG ‘CHUCKY’ REBOOT IS SO GAY IT’S SRY
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But the Chucky TV show is the first stallment of the Child’s Play seri wh a gay lead, and the bullyg that Chucky is enuragg Jake to stab his way out of is explicly about Jake’s sexualy. Chucky only dispatch Lus after Lus threatens to kill Jake if he talks about beg gay aga. The nflatn of homosexual and homicidal sire is not a particularly progrsive notn, but the show is nscly appropriatg a trope that has suffed the horror genre for s.
You uld, fact, go back even further — to Hchck’s Rope (1948) or Strangers on a Tra (1951), which homoeroticism and murr go hand hand. William Friedk’s 1980 thriller Cisg, about a serial killer targetg gay men at leather bars, ma the nnectn even more directly: the killer’s stabbgs are tercut wh flash of men fuckg. Freddy is an unsubtle metaphor for gayns — the monster Jse’s closet — as he ph the effemate teen away om heterosexual love tert Lisa (Kim Myers) and toward hunky classmate Grady (Robert Rler).