Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Board games don’t have a great track record when it comes to a big-screen translation.
Ouija anyone? Battleship? Forget about a rewatch; those movies make us never want to play the games that inspired them ever again.The exception–though nobody would know based on box office receipts–is Clue, the 1985 adaptation of the classic mystery board game.
Tim Curry stars as Wadsworth, the butler of Body Mansion tasked with hosting six anonymous strangers one stormy night in 1954.
Said strangers adopt the character names from the board game–Miss Scarlet, Professor Plumb, Mr. Green et. al.–only to realize that Mr.