Throughout an interview with ComingSoon, They/Them star Kevin Bacon mentioned his historical past with horror movies and why the style is so thrilling for him.
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When requested about his lengthy relationship with the horror style and They/Them, Bacon talked in regards to the distinctive setting and excessive stakes:
“I really like horror as a result of horror has very, very excessive stakes. It’s life and dying, and that’s good things to behave,” Bacon mentioned. “John may have made a film that was about homosexual conversion. It may have been a darkish little indie kind of drama, however to his credit score, he realized that horror is a style that has the potential of reaching lots of people. We see that on a regular basis when issues come out of the gate and have a really widespread attraction. So to take this background, this horrible thought, this horror in itself of homosexual conversion, after which plug it into a really conventional construction, for us — a 70s camp slasher film — was, I believed, an excellent sensible thought.”
Bacon additionally spoke extra particularly about his character from They/Them, the charmingly menacing Owen Whistler:
“To his [John Logan, director of They/Them] credit score, he wrote a man that was not a cookie cutter, crew reduce, flag-wearing, right-wing or spiritual nut, you understand? He needed to melt the perimeters of this character and make him just a little bit extra of a Lifeless fan or one thing and make him really feel as cheap as doable,” Bacon defined. “I feel that once you set that up, then there’s room to actually shock folks in a method that occurs afterward within the movie, clearly.”
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“Kevin Bacon performs Owen Whistler on this slasher horror movie set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp,” says the synopsis. “A number of queer and trans campers be part of Whistler for every week of programming supposed to “assist them discover a new sense of freedom”. Because the camp’s strategies develop into 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.”
