{"id":1596648,"date":"2022-08-09T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596648"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:19:36","slug":"exploitative-and-preachy-kevin-bacon-lgbtq-thriller-they-them-gets-eviscerated-by-critics-and-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exploitative-and-preachy-kevin-bacon-lgbtq-thriller-they-them-gets-eviscerated-by-critics-and-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exploitative And Preachy\u2019: Kevin Bacon LGBTQ Thriller \u2018They\/Them\u2019 Gets Eviscerated By Critics And Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexploitative-and-preachy-kevin-bacon-lgbtq-thriller-they-them-gets-eviscerated-by-critics-and-viewers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596648&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lgbtq\">LGBTQ<\/a> slasher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/horror-movies\">horror film<\/a> \u201cThey\/Them\u201d was created for a specific audience, but even the most left-leaning critics say it\u2019s a total mess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\/Them\u201d stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Kevin Bacon<\/a> in the Peacock original as the head of a conversion camp that\u2019s being plagued by a psycho killer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/they_them\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, \u201cSeveral queer campers join [Bacon as Owen Whistler] for a week of programming intended to \u2018help them find a new sense of freedom.\u2019 As the camp\u2019s methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect themselves. When an unidentified axe murderer starts claiming victims, things get even more dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thriller currently has a 29\/100 critic score and 15\/100 audience rating after its August 5 release.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201c\u2019They\/Them\u2019 never connects on a gut level, as a horror movie should. It\u2019s too somber and plodding \u2014 a \u2018message movie\u2019 delivered in a drab package,\u201d the Los Angeles Times wrote in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2022-08-07\/new-streaming-movies-prey-luck-lightyear-they-them\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/05\/entertainment\/they-them-column\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> called out writer\/director John Logan for failing to get the message across. Their reviewer said the story \u201cat various times feels creepy, exploitative and preachy, without becoming particularly tense or scary.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fred Topel from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/Movies\/2022\/07\/24\/They-Them-movie-review\/2011658713228\/\">UPI<\/a> said, \u201cAs an out gay filmmaker, Logan may have something sincere to say both about ant-LGBTQ tactics and the slasher movie genre. Unfortunately, combining them ends up sabotaging both sides of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire contributor Christian Toto said the film is terrible to the core and doesn\u2019t live up to the standards of horror genre. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAudiences may need Post-It notes on their screens to remind them it\u2019s a horror movie,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/they-them-review-woke-horror\/\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cAdd clunky romances, endless dialogue that would make a Hallmark movie scribe cringe and an embarrassing dearth of scares and you\u2019ve got a missed opportunity on an epic scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like other critics, he calls out the cheesy camp sing-a-long to a Pink song as an especially cringe-worthy moment.<\/p>\n<p>Toto concludes that the movie is \u201cwoke to its core, but that isn\u2019t its fatal flaw. It\u2019s cartoonish, scare-free and so intent on empowerment it skimps on every horror movie essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most critics hated it, but Gary M. Kramer from Salon had high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/08\/05\/they-them-review-peacock-horror-queer\/\">praise<\/a> for the thriller. He described \u201cThey\/Them\u201d as \u201ca smart and savvy film that demonstrates the value of putting queer heroes in the horror genre as well as the damaging effects of conversion therapy and not allowing people to be who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\/Them\u201d is currently streaming on Peacock.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LGBTQ slasher horror film \u201cThey\/Them\u201d was created for a specific audience, but even the most left-leaning critics say it\u2019s a total mess. \u201cThey\/Them\u201d stars Kevin Bacon in the Peacock original as the head of a conversion camp that\u2019s being plagued by a psycho killer.\u00a0 Per Rotten Tomatoes, \u201cSeveral queer campers join [Bacon as Owen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1596821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1596821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}