Saturday Night Live has seen so many fantastic guest stars over its nearly 50 year run – but not everyone is exactly welcome back to Studio 8H.
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Wilson Chapman editor“They/Them,” a new Blumhouse slasher that promises a queer take on the horror genre, is set to go straight to streaming on Peacock next month. But before that, the film received a full in-person theatrical screening, as the closing night premiere of Los Angeles queer film festival Outfest.“This is the perfect place,” Kevin Bacon, who plays the film’s chief villain Owen Whistler, told Variety on the red carpet.“They/Them” is a slasher horror film set in a gay conversion therapy camp.
“When we learned we were going to be in Outfest, let alone the closing night, we were absolutely thrilled,” Bacon said. “I don’t generally get to see my films with an audience, especially these days.
When they’re made for a platform, you don’t get a chance to see how it plays. So this is really exciting.” Joining Bacon at the Ace Hotel on Sunday were fellow cast members Theo Germaine, Carrie Preston, Quei Tann, Anna Lore, Monique Kim, Darwin del Fabro, Cooper Koch, Austin Crute, Boone Platt and Hayley Griffith as well as director John Logan and executive producer Scott Turner Schofield.Outfest executive director Damien S. Navarro told Variety that the festival chose “They/Them,” a slasher horror film set in a gay conversion therapy camp, as its closer this year for the way in which it flips the script of horror films by having the LGBT characters be the focus and the heroes of the narrative.“Between comedy and horror, we’ve been the butts of the jokes and we’ve been the targets of the knives, and I think it was time to flip the script a bit,” Outfest executive director Damien S. Navarro told Variety about premiering “They/Them.” “And so a lot of the themes of Outfest this year has been a horror format and series in which
.Saturday Night Live has seen so many fantastic guest stars over its nearly 50 year run – but not everyone is exactly welcome back to Studio 8H.
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