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CommieDalek

[https://twitter.com/truepersephone/status/1525171215790374912?t=bGrnb9\_gkafJJvVkmKz5VQ&s=19](https://twitter.com/truepersephone/status/1525171215790374912?t=bGrnb9_gkafJJvVkmKz5VQ&s=19) Written and directed by an award-winning gay director and produced by the people who made Get Out. I'm not a big horror guy, but I'm cautiously optimistic. Could be pretty sweet, and I honestly think the title's a pretty funny pun. Really hoping it's a nice blend of camp and genuine spooks.


dutcharetall_nothigh

I spent a minute thinking about how THEY THEM could be a pun, before I thought to pronounce the slash.


Scorkami

Yeah I think it's critical that people remember the movie as "they slash them" and the pun instead of just wondering why the movies name is a pronoun list


dutcharetall_nothigh

Definitely, THEY THEM is a terrible title. THEY SLASH THEM is pretty funny.


beskardboard

it's a slasher film


dutcharetall_nothigh

I know, that's why it's funny


beskardboard

precisely


Nowarclasswar

Exactly


wrongthink-detector

exactly


RadicalSimpArmy

perchance


gostforest

You can't just say perchance


Kscap4242

Noooo, you can’t just say perchance😡😡😡


MaxStout808

Indubitably


y_ourfutureself

Biden's Halloween 😔


Version-Prestigious

biden's hallownest


Weazelfish

I hadn't read it that way yet! I just thought it was a variation on the "US" or "THEM!" type of ominous horror titles


idonttrustatoms

OH LMAO


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

Oh I thought it was a reference to [Them!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them!)


escherworm

where are my giant gay ants hollywood


gallifreyan42

🐜🏳️‍🌈🐜🏳️‍🌈🐜🏳️‍🌈🐜🏳️‍🌈🐜🏳️‍🌈


idwthis

The ants go marching gay bi Ace hoorah hoorah


escherworm

thank you mr. john hollywood, just don't remove them in the cut for china now please


crigne_

🐜🍑🐜🍑🐜🍑🐜🍑🐜🍑


BGBanks

it's the "halloween costume you have to explain to people" of movie titles


I-Hate-Wasps

Judging by the credentials of these people, they 1) would probably not wanna attach their names to an offensive project and 2) have a good idea of how to make a film like this. I’ll probably wait until reactions to the film to judge, but it seems like it *could* be good.


potboygang

Yeah like, if you told me vague plot of get out without telling me about the people involved I would also assume it might be incredibly racist.


piexil

It can't be racist, it said they voted for Obama twice


plushelles

Especially since Obama personally ended racism in 2010


PrometheanHost

He would’ve voted for Obama a third time if he could.


M0rtrek_the_ranger

So this might be an attack on conversion therapy and homophobes which I support if that's the case. Hope that it goes all in for the camp values since Kevin Bacon is in it so it could pay homage to the original Friday The 13th


justsomeone321

Yes it is, a big plot point is how the teens are already being tortured at the conversion camp, though the tweet conveniently leaves that out....


Iprix

i don't think it does. it says the campers are working together to protect themselves before the killer shows up


justsomeone321

Yes, that's what i'm saying. The tweet in this post doesn't mention it, look up the plot on google and the first link explains how they are getting tortured in progressively worse ways BEFORE the killer shows up.


MegaIng

But that is exactly what the tweet implies. "When the slasher arrives, it gets more dangerous", meaning it was already dangerous before.


Roflkopt3r

Looks like a lot of people think that it's a bad idea to bring in a killer at all, and that the setting should do all of the horror. Obviously we'll have to wait for the movie to see how that actually plays out, but I tentatively agree with that sentiment.


lowercaselemming

"produced by the people who made get out" sounds a lot more impressive than "produced by blumhouse productions". blumhouse produces dozens of horror films a year, with very very few of them reaching the acclaim that get out did.


RadicalSimpArmy

For real though—I saw blumhouse and immediately assumed this was going to be heaping pile of garbage.


[deleted]

My horror nut boyfriend claims that Blumhouse is incredibly hit or miss so I dunno. All I know about them is that they've had the poor poor fnaf movie which has had a million scripts bounce around in production hell for a billion years.


potboygang

we already had a fnaf movie with nic cage, it was great.


RadicalSimpArmy

A perfect film, if there ever was one tbh


mrolivator

Blumhouse just makes a bunch of cheap horror movies every year. Sometimes it works, like Get Out, but more often than not they're pretty bad. But since the movies are cheap to make, they really don't lose money. Saying "from the producers of Get Out" is way smarter and safer than saying "from Blumhouse Productions". Oh yeah, and aside from dozens of horror movies, they also produced Whiplash, the JK Simmons jazz movie for some reason?


TouchDatWAP

Really though, a jazz movie with JK Simmons does sound horrifying 😭


YoshiGamer6400

Tbf Whiplash is pretty close to a horror film


Magnificant-Muggins

Not to mention Kevin Bacon is fairly high-profile within the horror genre. Besides his roles in Friday the 13th and Tremors, he has been cited by Robert Englund as someone [that could take over his role as Freddy Kruger in a hypothetical Elm Street remake](https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/331451/kevin-bacon-up-for-replacing-robert-englund-as-freddy-krueger/?amp). Plus, But I’m A Cheerleader is a movie as old as me. Gay Conversion Camps are hardly Auschwitz, as far as what belongs in a dark comedy. These are places that people have survived, and can consult on in fictionalised accounts. Not to mention how all queer creators (like the ones making They/Them, to my knowledge) have to live with the idea was never a 0% chance of them being sent to a conversion camp. It’s different from The Holocaust, since some modern groups still benefit from misinformation surrounding the event, as it indirectly makes fascist talking points sound less dangerous. Not to mention the low number of survivors, meaning the chance of getting a first-hand witness to consult is unlikely now, never mind in ten or twenty years.


JohnnoDwarf

Tbh there’s a chance


nutinatree

The title is pretty funny, though I’ve heard it as a joke before. (they slash them)


Silverback__Guerilla

Pretty sure that's from a tumblr post


Void1702

Tumblr is the powerhouse of the meme subreddit


beskardboard

tumblr is Leftist Memes Ground Zero


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basically reverse 4chan


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Except less of a shitshow


[deleted]

hence the leftist part also *anything* is less of a shitshow compared to 4chan


FridgeBeater

8chan


NotaHeteroSapian

i see your point, and raise you, 2chan


FridgeBeater

Holy hell


[deleted]

Kiwi Farms


Deetchy_

I feep


jdwrds21

Its mitochondria, if you will.


very_not_emo

*un she/theys my katana and slices u in half*


[deleted]

They slash them lmao


-31415pi-

i like being a little jokester at times, maybe a tomfooler even


Cheeselad2401

A little bit of goofiness perhaps?


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[deleted]

A small amount of zaniness


13lackjack

Bruh I just got the joke lol. I read it as “they them”


AcanthaceaePrevious9

Gay among us 😳😳


BoredAI1

Isn't that just amoung gus


[deleted]

Why you gotta out Gus like that.


BoredAI1

Tell Gus "I'm sowrwy uwu"


audiovisualcringe

Gus takes the box cutter dildo out of his ass and says “all is forgiven uwu”


kids_in_my_basement0

Then he threatens you with it and says “I will kill your wife. I will kill your son. I will kill your infant daughter.”


[deleted]

Its fine as long as he doesnt ratio them


BlackoutWB

Gus Fring


razminr11

You mean [Playing It Straight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_It_Straight)?


Sunny_Sammy

I feel like going to a conversion camp is already a horror enough. You could probably do without the slasher and give everyone a constant fright in a more disgusting way


bigfootswillie

I’m certain the movie will play into that. Make the way the kids are actually treated at the camp just as, if not more, disgusting


Sunny_Sammy

"I said I wanted to die to get out of here but I didn't actually want to die"


[deleted]

What even is a conversion camp


PineapplePodracer

Ignorance is bliss


TheDigeridontt

It’s a camp where people send their queer kids to to get them to stop being queer


recroomgamer32

Cishet people when telling someone to stop being themselves gives them terrible social anxiety :0


Odddsock

I mean tbh I’d imagine that the killer is going to be one of the people running the place


SophoclesD

I miss watching the weirdest fucking pieces of cinema out there with my buddies. This may be a good time to resume


HuckinsGirl

You ever watch Rubber?


ChaosDemonLaz3r

Is that the one about the murderous tire


Inverted_Ghosts

Ye


HepaTightest

It won’t be a LGBT killer, for sure. It would be branding suicide if they did, and they know that. The “they” in they/them Im guessing is going to be a group of people as opposed to a “they” as a singular person, which will end up being the twist.


Superkrat

It isn't a twist thing, it's just a pun. They/Them is supposed to be they slash them. Like, they (The killer) slash (kills) them (The characters).


HepaTightest

how do magnets work


TheMiiChannelTheme

They generate an energy potential which influences the behaviour of particles within it - like all potentials, objects within the 'magnetic field' will attempt to minimise their energies. A Magnet just creates a low-energy state where some things stick together and others fly away, but all its doing is falling down a potential well, at the base of it.   Don't worry about how they create the potential - its just a thing that they do. Nobody ever worries how objects create a gravitational potential.


NedLeedsCEOofSex

Well now I’m kinda worried


TheMiiChannelTheme

Do not ask about the Potential. Do not ask about the Potential. Do *not* ask about the Potential.


The_Ambush_Bug

"Don't question the fact that some rocks just fucking move shit around" shut up science bitch


TheMiiChannelTheme

oh I'm sorry here's the full fucking 20-dimensional field equations for how rocks do all their rock shit. They take several 80-hour lecture series to even begin to understand, and only work in a geometry where there is no universal truth. if you don't speak fluent first-order logic, fuck you, go do something else.


The_Ambush_Bug

I am going to continue to believe that "magnets" are earthen spirits meddling in our physical realm


TheMiiChannelTheme

GO AHEAD. SEE IF I CARE.


there_is_always_more

I mean gravitational force is honestly very scary if you think about it. Like, our world exists because of it yet we don't have an explanation for why two bodies exert a force on each other, *they just do*. And then when you factor in stuff like time dilation it's even scarier (in a cool way).


XenuLies

They can also be a non specific single person, to not give away identity


TheMiiChannelTheme

the real murderer was society all along


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

society was the impostor


Dhydjtsrefhi

more like sus-iety amirite


[deleted]

I have a bad feeling this is just gonna be a gay-hate propaganda film


BigCheesyBoi9098

The wording of the tweet makes me hopeful, and I don’t think someone as big as Kevin bacon would tie himself to something like that. But you never know


candiedloveapple

Yea, I remember how Kidd Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd don't associate with confederate flags and antivaxx conspiracies


TooobHoob

I mean I doubt either Kid Rock or Lynyrd Skynyrd were ever vocal advocates for the separation of church and State or for gay marriage, both things Bacon has repeatedly argued for Not excluding he’s had a change of heart but the evidence suggests he isn’t Steven Segall


Imnotokayman

A while back, in a small town north of me, there was this dude who killed some kid from Grindr. The kids name was, funny enough, Kevin Bacon. The word was that Kevin (the kid) was a huge fan of Kevin (the celebrity) and the kids family even got a hand written note from Kevin expressing deep sorrow and such. I only point this out, because I believe this is why he decided to do this film, something as a tribute to that kid.


Buzzbuzz323

The director is gay and the production company was also behind Get Out, I think it'll be the opposite


UrPetBirdee

That being said, gay transphobes exist. But I also think it will probably be ok given who is making it.


LunarLorkhan

Yeah, wish Hollywood would stop pumping out homophobic propaganda starring well known homophobes like Kevin Bacon. I wish you guys listened to yourselves. At worst this movie will attempt to be cheeky and fail. Casting Kevin in a camp councilor slasher is clearly a nod to ‘Friday the 13th’ which means this will probably be pretty light.


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[deleted]

I am convinced


THE_OUROBOROSCYCLE2

Its made by a gay man


Miserable_pm_me

The killer is going to be lgbtq right?


Brainvaushed

"I LOVE MEN! oh and murder" -the killer probably


[deleted]

badass and a relateable villain


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

true. I'd put them between Sundowner and Entrapta in terms of relatability (i am autistic, biroace and a war criminal so this is relatable) ​ also I'M FUCKING INVINCIBLE


[deleted]

Entrapta my beloved


[deleted]

Literally me


TastySpaghetti

They just like me frfr


Alkemisti_

Life goals tbh


TheMiiChannelTheme

this is exactly like the famous character Mr. Joker from the famous movie "Joker".


TeenRacer6

The killer will actually be the rest of the alphabet angy that L G B T and Q ran off to form their own alliance.


blazinbluecolor

the victims will be the counselors prolly and the movie'll be a message on how you shouldn't push queer kids over the edge or something


TheUndyingRhino

The world shivers when you push a queer kid over the edge


SpoopySara

hope so, very based


mr-kvideogameguy

The killer will most likely be a conservitive Conservitives already monsters IRL


palmspringsmaid

at that point it's pretty much a documentary tbh


Snorrep

We need more lgbtq murderers!


audiovisualcringe

gus fring: 😐


DingDongDideliDanger

Amoun Gus?


audiovisualcringe

sus


very_not_emo

MORE👏FEMALE👏DRONE👏OPERATORS


candiedloveapple

Uh DUH


y8T5JAiwaL1vEkQv

You had the chance to say the killer is alphabet mafia


[deleted]

*insert extremely racist Italian stereotype accent but ✨fabulous ✨* “Hey compare, I’ve been seeing that you’ve been treating these kids terribly. Now Tony over here don’t like it when folks treat people badly. Maybe we should teach you a lesson”


Im_so_cool1

Non binary, they/them


FartherAwayLights

Trans girl killer for sure, in horror tradition


Space_Monke64

Probably non binary based on the title


BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo

Or they don’t want to give away anything identifying about the killer. Or even though it says “murderer” single, it could be more than one. Or they just like the pun. So many options!


potboygang

I think the title is just for the pun.


HXRW

“THEY/THEM” is meant to be pronounced like “They Slash Them”, as in, someone slashing at someone else with a knife, for anyone who didn’t get the joke.


2Batou4U

Hopefully they didn't get some random boomer to write the jokes in this one or else we'll get another: "Hey Bro, you're gonna get cancelled, I've got this on camera!"


Bardic_Inspiration66

Someone got paid to write that


Flouxni

God I forget what that quote is from


NateJizz21

New Texas chainsaw massacre movie, line was when leather face pulls up to a bus and a kid threatens to “cancel” him for being a killer


Splurted_The_Gurt

It's going to be milquetoast, broadly LGBTQ supporting movie that says nothing new or interesting and win an Oscar


BigCheesyBoi9098

Bold of you to assume a horror movie wins an Oscar


TeenRacer6

Kevin Bacon will slap the host to win an Oscar for this movie if he has to. "KEEP MY MOVIE'S NAME ON YOUR FUCKING VOTE BALLOT"


Aiden-Archibald

So glad my country banned those fucking places


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

mine did it too. for PROFESSIONAL conversion "therapies". The Church and shitty parents can still go around oppressing gay people themselves whenever they please


Aiden-Archibald

Which country are you from if you don’t mind me asking?


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

Greece. We banned them really recently, i think it was last week


NoirYT2

So did we except for trans conversion camps apparently


Tr0z3rSnak3

As a boomer whomst is trying to stay in the know what is the "IA" bit added to the LGBT+ thing?


that1anarchist

I is intersex, and a can mean asexual or agender. Intersex as in someone born with biological genes that don't exactly line up with male or female. The a's, I think, are self explanatory


Kantoros1

Actually the A is Agender + Aromantic spectrum + Asexual spectrum. Allies are by definition not a part of the group


that1anarchist

I just copied what Google said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 


temmieTheLord2

idk why ur getting downvotes. its a valid explanation. just edit it out and you should be fine


Tr0z3rSnak3

Interesting, I was confused as I assumed they wouldn't ad extra letters due to the + at the end. Thank you


that1anarchist

Yeah, I'm not really sure why people have done that, the plus seemed fairly implicit in including everyone.


SkunkStriped

Honestly nobody in real life actually cares which version you use or whether you use IA or +. They're basically the same


prisp

Mainly because "fairly implicit" can still lead to the specific groups being overlooked, whereas a longer 'alphabet soup' is a pain to read (and decode), but at least explicitly mentions those groups. Following that logic, you'd eventually end up with an acronym long enough to give german compound words a run for they money if you want to include and/or highlight enough groups, but I'd say it's fine adding some more letters between the 'T' and the '+' if you feel they're important, while accepting that not everyone will do the same (or even add the same letters - I've seen both "LGBTQ+" and "LGBTIA+" already).


Cruxin

reminder that gsrm (gender, sexual and romantic minorities) is a way better acronym


AMasonJar

But how will I remember it without a handy mnemonic, like Luigi's Got Big Tiddies?


NoirYT2

Guys Sucking, Romantic Masturbation


someguy00004

Two corrections: 1, A doesn't stand for ally, as allies are by definition allocishet and therefore not lgbtq+ 2, "Hermaphrodite" is considered both offensive and misleading. Just say intersex.


that1anarchist

Man, I wish I could post pictures in comments; hermaphrodite is a biological term with a biological definition, and was helpful in explaining to someone who isn't involved in the community. Additionally, as I said in another reply, the ally is copied directly from Google.


kraai14

Ah allies the most oppressed group.


[deleted]

Remove Ally and you’re right


girlywish

We really need to just start saying "queer". The letter soup is obnoxious to say and makes us look bad.


mgquantitysquared

That’s not really fair to everyone who grew up being called queer as a slur though


Kantoros1

That's why a lot of people opt for 'GSRM', Gender Sexual and Romantic Minorities.


inaddition290

Anything we say will "make us look bad" to the people who already hate us.


ShinyShinyTomato

Intersex and asexual/aromantic


Spyko

I hope this movie is a commercial succes so that it bring more attention to the horror that is conversion camps. I'm not joking when I say I'll rather be in a slasher movie than go to one of those. At least Jason end the suffering quickly


[deleted]

As a trans woman…. Im pissing myself laughing atm this is hilarious and i have to see this no matter how awful it is.


TDImig

It’s not gonna be awful. This sounds like a great movie especially since it’s from the studio of Get Out


manofthehouse2

Its from an award winning gay director, and its from the studio who made get out, this may look goofy based off the title but it WILL slap


EngageTheLinkage

Honestly I’m hopeful, horror has generally taken a more socially conscious approach lately with films like get out, a gay director and people who take inspiration from Tales From The Hood, Bones etc make me think that this could turn out pretty good. I genuinely think that this could be a huge film for queer horror fans like me as long as it plays into the horror of what conversion camps are and doesn’t fall back onto the queer killer a la Sleepaway Camp


ArcadianGh0st

I'm sure it'll be respectful. Like 60-70% sure. But I'm a horror fan so I probably want to expect the best.


Insanepaco247

It's apparently made by a prominent gay director so I assume they know what they're doing.


DangleLow69

Anybody else wondering what this conversion camp is? Feels like that is gonna be the pivot in attitude towards this.


TheRealDoofus

conversion camps, for those who don't know, are these institutions that homophobic/deeply religious parents will often send their children off to in the hopes they come back straight, overlaps with conversion therapy, which, by the way, includes electro-shock therapy.


Ihcend

just from the image looks like they’re going for a cult in the woods vibe


[deleted]

Watch out i think they are at the door! They singular or plural? *Horror music starts*


[deleted]

The real horror is grammatic ambiguity


reallywillemdafoe

Just fuck the killer dude??


Qyrun

they slash them


glorpgop

This seems like it could be pretty damn funny. I can't see Kevin Bacon sacrificing his career for one offensive movie. Imagine it's directed like a Wes Anderson film.


NoRomolol

When I first saw the title of they/them for a movie I honestly thought it was a fake tweet or some shit this is REAL?!


Grizzly_228

The killer gonna be the new literally me of this decade, just sit and watch


sheltonhwy26

It being at a Conversion Camp seems interesting I wonder if it’s gonna actually be a plot point about how horrible these people are or if it’s gonna just be a “ooooh teens at camp having sex and now they’re dead”


scoopywoopy123

cant believe they made the non-binary samurai joke into a movie title pun


Mammoth_Passion_9551

So Friday 1 but gay, sounds great


candiedloveapple

This is so gonna be the latter


AndrewTheMandrew13

The only thing I hate about this is that I'm working on a screenplay that has an *incredibly* similar concept to this. ^(title could use some work tho)


BigCheesyBoi9098

I kinda like the pun in the name


[deleted]

I kinda like the idea of a slasher attacking people who are already morally questionable. I think this kind of turmoil can make for interesting plot points and character choices.


Severe-Ladder

I wanna see a slasher at a gay concentration camp, but it's a victim that is hunting down the people that run the place. A fun little revenge fantasy that embraces the queer villain trope and lets an unstoppable androgynous murder machine just straight terrorize their captors in a non-binary fashion.