On Thursday, streaming service Peacock announced the new Blumhouse-produced original film “They/Them.” Pronounced “They-slash-Them,” the LGBTQIA+ horror film, formerly known as “Whistler Camp,” is a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp.
Created, written, and directed by three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (“Skyfall”), “They/Them” stars Kevin Bacon as Owen Whistler. Several queer and trans campers join Whistler for a week of programming intended to “help them find a new sense of freedom.” As the camp’s methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect themselves. When a mysterious killer starts claiming victims, things get even more dangerous.
“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.”
Rounding out the film’s cast are Anna Chlumsky (“Inventing Anna”), Theo Germaine (“The Politician”), Carrie Preston (“Claws”), Quei Tann (“How to Get Away with Murder”), Austin Crute (“Booksmart”), Monique Kim (“High Expectasians”), Anna Lore (“All American”), Cooper Koch (“Less Than Zero”), and Darwin del Fabro (“Dangerous Liaisons”).
Check out the first-look images from the film below:
The all-new original slasher will arrive on Peacock on Friday, August 5, 2022.
