First Take a look at Kevin Bacon’s Conversion Camp Slasher Horror Movie THEY/THEM Coming to Peacock — GeekTyrant

Blumhouse has provided a primary have a look at its upcoming slasher horror movie They/Them, pronounced “They-slash-Them.” The film comes from director John Logan (Penny Dreadful) and Kevin Bacon is about to star within the film. There’s a set of photographs beneath so that you can take a look at.

The story is about at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp, and Bacon takes on the position of Owen Whistler. Within the film, “a number of queer and trans campers be part of Whistler for per week of programming supposed to ‘assist them discover a new sense of freedom.’”

It’s defined that “because the camp’s strategies grow to be more and more extra psychologically unsettling, the campers should work collectively to guard themselves. When a mysterious killer begins claiming victims, issues get much more harmful.”

Author and director, John Logan, stated in a press release: “They/Them has been germinating inside me my complete life. I’ve beloved horror films so long as I can keep in mind, I feel as a result of monsters signify ‘the opposite’ and as homosexual child I felt a robust sense of kinship with these characters who had been completely different, outlawed, or forbidden,” stated author and director, John Logan. “I needed to make a film that celebrates queerness, with characters that I by no means noticed after I was rising up. When individuals stroll away from the film, I hope they’re going to recollect the unbelievable love that these youngsters have for one another and the way that love must be protected and celebrated.”   

Listed below are the small print on full solid and characters:

• Kevin Bacon (he/him) performs Owen Whistler, the conversion camp director who runs Whistler Camp alongside a number of counselors together with his spouse, Cora.

• Anna Chlumsky (she/her) performs Molly, the camp’s medic and latest worker.

• Carrie Preston (she/her) performs Cora Whistler, a licensed therapist in control of the campers’ remedy periods, and the spouse of camp director Owen Whistler.

• Theo Germaine (they/them) performs Jordan, a transgender and non-binary camper from a non secular background who has made a cope with their mother and father to legally emancipate if attending Whistler doesn’t “work.”

• Quei Tann (she/her) performs Alexandra, a transgender girl whose mother and father have threatened to kick her out of the home if she didn’t attend the camp.

• Austin Crute (he/him) performs Toby, a homosexual camper who negotiated along with his mother and father for a visit to New York in trade for per week at Whistler Camp.

• Monique Kim (she/her) performs Veronica, a bisexual camper who needs to cease preventing who she actually is.

• Anna Lore (she/her) performs Kim, a closeted lesbian camper who places on a wonderfully crafted entrance for her household and associates, assuming that when she suits in, she’ll lastly be beloved.

• Cooper Koch (he/him) performs Stu, a jock with aspirations of a swim scholarship and becoming a member of his father’s fraternity – issues he doesn’t really feel he can obtain if he’s open about being homosexual.

• Darwin del Fabro (he/him) performs Gabriel, a delicate homosexual camper uninterested in the persistent name-calling and bullying he’s endured his complete life.

The film will debut on Peacock on Friday, August fifth.