Poets, witches, psychics and rugby: Anti-bullying movies for this Coming Out Day
didn’t have to deal with bullying growing up? For that matter, what member of the community today doesn’t have to deal with bullying from a certain whackado in the White House?In honor of Coming Out Day–and for some cathartic pushback against the world’s bullies–have a look at these fun movies about school bullies who get a hearty dose of comeuppance.
They run the gamut of the genre spectrum from sweet to scary, and in any case, have some popcorn on hand. Each one of them gets wild.CarrieNo, not the original classic.
Queer director Kim Peirce gave Carrie the update treatment in 2013, which included turning up the volume on some of the lesbian subtext of the original.
Chloe Grace Moritz and Julianne Moore star in a movie less about the creepiness of femininity than the power of it, and the destructive nature of bullying and religious fanaticism.
