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.