First look at Peacock’s new queer horror film ‘They/Them’
‘They/Them’ a new queer horror film to stream on Peacock. (Courtesy photo by Josh Stringer/Blumhouse) The streaming network Peacock announced Thursday its new original film They/Them (pronounced “They-slash-Them”) from Blumhouse will premiere Aug.
5. The LGBTQIA+ horror film is a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp. They/Them is produced by Blumhouse. The film is created, written and directed by three-time Oscar nominated screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall, Gladiator, The Aviator), marking his directorial debut and serving as an executive producer on the film. “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,” writer-director John Logan said in the press release. “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.” Kevin Bacon (You Should Have Left, City On a Hill), Scott Turner Schofield (Euphoria; The Craft: Legacy), Howie Young (Mission: Impossible III, Hit and Run), and Jon Romano (Firestarter (2022), Vengeance) also serve as executive producers.
