“Hmm/them,” Blumhouse’s new series that promises an outlandish take on the horror genre, is set to stream live on Peacock next month. But before that, the film had received a full personal theatrical release, as the closing night screening of the Los Angeles Gay Film Festival Outfest.
“This is the right place,” Kevin Baconwho plays the main villain of the movie Owen Whistler, said diverse on the red carpet.
“They/Them” is a sinister horror movie set in a gay conversion therapy camp. “When we learned we’d be at Outfest, not to mention closing night, we were thrilled,” Bacon said. “I generally can’t watch my films with an audience, especially these days. When it’s made for a platform, you don’t get a chance to figure out how to play it. So that’s really exciting.”
Joining Bacon at the Ace Hotel on Sunday was a fellow cast member Theo GermainAnd the Carrie PrestonAnd the kui tanAnd the Anna LorAnd the Monique KimAnd the Darwin Del FabroAnd the cooper hutAnd the Austin CardsAnd the Bon Platt And the Hayley Griffiths as well as the director John Logan and Executive Producer Scott Turner Scofield.
Outfest CEO Damien S Navarro She told Variety that the festival has picked them/them, a sinister horror film set in a gay conversion therapy camp, as this year it approaches the way it overturns the horror film script by making LGBT characters the focus and protagonists of the narrative.
“Between comedy and horror, we’ve been following jokes and aiming for knives, and I think it’s time to flip the script a bit,” Outfest CEO. Damien S Navarro Tell diverse About the premiere of the movie “They / They”. “So a lot of this year’s Outfest theme has been a horror format and series in which we see ourselves as one-time heroes.”
All of the cast members who play the campers in “they/they” are gay actors, which helped them deal with material from a real place. During the premiere, Crot, who plays the fun-loving camper, said Toby diverse The project spoke to him, as he struggled with the desire to fit in as he grew.
“I’ve never set foot in a gay conversion camp, but there was a time in my life when I probably would have given in to the pressures around me to conform,” Crott said. “I think this movie spoke to a child inside me who wanted to be seen, and now I feel visible, which is incredible.”
Horror fan Tan, who plays sweet camp Alexandra, spoke about how gay culture and horror fit together, both in the film and in the historical context.
“Homosexuality is a subculture and horror is a subculture, so getting them together is adaptive. I think they make really great companions,” Tan said. Horror and removed from the screen. We have also seen in the cinema that people do not want to tell strange stories. So, since both subcultures have always pushed the boundaries and made people feel uncomfortable, it’s really good to blend those two things together.”
Although “Them/Them” is an optimistic film, it is also a film that takes seriously the effects of harmful conversion therapy camps for gay youth. On the red carpet, Logan spoke about how the film’s exploration of the horror genre is gaining prominence in the wake of anti-queer and transgender legislation that has occurred over the past year.
“I think it shows how heroic and amazing gay people are,” Logan said. “And the fact that we are stronger as a people and as a nation, for our diversity.”
Peacock’s “Them/Them” premieres August 5th.
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