In the realm of horror movies, there isn't a lot of queer content. Oh sure, there's the nelly mad scientist in James Whales' Bride of Frankenstein, the lesbian vampires in Dracula's Daughter and The Hunger, not too mention the inimitable Dr. Frank-N-Furter. However, lately gay indies have finally turned to the genre for new ideas, with results both traditional (HellBent) and campy (The Creature from the Pink Lagoon), and two recently announced projects will apparently add to the trend.The first, titled Horror in the Wind, sounds like it will fall squarely in the camp category. The plot centers around some kind of airborne biogenetic formula that, when inhaled, changes a person's sexual orientation; my goodness, that does sound horrible (and an awful lot like that "gay bomb" we heard so much about earlier this year). I have a bad feeling about this one; it seems like yet another excuse to trot out a parade of cheap gay stereotypes, the likes of which we haven't seen since, well, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
On the other hand, Jack and Diane sounds a lot more compelling. "It" girl of the moment Ellen Page is attached, and she and her Juno co-star Olivia Thirlby will play the title characters. They're teenage lesbians in love, and it turns out that all that sexual energy transforms one of them into a werewolf. Or not, it may actually just be some art film metaphor thing, which would make it not really a horror movie after all, I guess. Still, which of these would you rather see? I thought so; teenaged lesbian werewolves (even metaphorical ones) win every time.
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