Oh y’all ate for this title!!!
Blumhouse is set to release an LGBTQ+ teen slasher film — pronounced “They-slash-Them” taking place in a conversion therapy camp.
Kevin Bacon stars in the film as Owen Whistler, the director of a conversion therapy camp named Whistler Camp, which attempts to “turn” LGBTQ+ teenagers straight and cisgender. Set over a week-long session at the camp, the film focuses on the various campers, led by trans and nonbinary Jordan (Theo Germaine), as they undergo psychological torment from the camp’s programming. When an unidentified killer begins claiming victims, the kids must team up to protect each other, both from the killer and from the camp staff.
The film was first announced in 2021 when it was titled Whistler Camp, ( whoever thought of the name change deserves a bonus), and marks the directorial debut of three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan. The cast also includes Anna Chlumsky (Inventing Anna), Theo Germaine (The Politician), Quei Tann (How To Get Away With Murder), Austin Crute (Booksmart), Monique Kim (Look That Kill), Anna Lore (Faking It), Cooper Koch (Power: Book II) and Darwin del Fabro (Dangerous Liaisons).
“THEY/THEM has been germinating within me my whole life. I’ve loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent ‘the other’ and as gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden,” said Logan. “I wanted to make a movie that celebrates queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up. When people walk away from the movie, I hope they’re going to remember the incredible love that these kids have for each other and how that love needs to be protected and celebrated.” via Deadline
