Horror’s queerness has always been tied to the other. Whether we’re talking about literal monsters, as in the case of Bride of Frankenstein, or the queer-coded nature of Hays Code-era films like Cat People一or even decades-later queer vehicles Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde and Sleepaway Camp一there’s always been a queer pulse throbbing inside horror storytelling.
In recent years, the ability to tell LGBTQ+ tales and the boldness with which you could play around in that sandbox has shifted tremendously. Within the last 20 years, the horror lens has refocused on allowing actual unapologetically queer stories to be told, from 2004’s Hellbent to more recent fare like Freaky and The Perfection. Thankfully, we also live in a world where So Vam and Children of Sin can exist, two of last year’s most surprising releases that relish in queerness while deconstructing unchecked homophobia and religious trauma. In both, it’s...
In recent years, the ability to tell LGBTQ+ tales and the boldness with which you could play around in that sandbox has shifted tremendously. Within the last 20 years, the horror lens has refocused on allowing actual unapologetically queer stories to be told, from 2004’s Hellbent to more recent fare like Freaky and The Perfection. Thankfully, we also live in a world where So Vam and Children of Sin can exist, two of last year’s most surprising releases that relish in queerness while deconstructing unchecked homophobia and religious trauma. In both, it’s...
- 1/19/2023
- by Bee Delores
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Keni Bounds, Jeff Buchwald, Meredith Mohler, Lewis Hines, Jo-Ann Robinson | Written and Directed by Christopher Wesley Moore
Children of Sin is the new film from writer/director/actor Christopher Wesley Moore and like his previous films Blessed Are the Children, Stranger Among the Living, and Triggered, (not to be confused with the South African film Triggered) it’s a horror film with a strong dose of religious and social commentary. His previous films have managed to walk the line between delivering scares and delivering their message, can he keep that steak going here?
Tammy (Keni Bounds; Blessed Are the Children) is marrying Robbie. This doesn’t sit well with her children Emma and Jackson (Lewis Hines; Mimi: Blood Thicker Than Water). Maybe because he’s a religious zealot who demands total obedience and finds sin in everyone but himself. And he doesn’t consider making advances on his own stepdaughter as sinful.
Children of Sin is the new film from writer/director/actor Christopher Wesley Moore and like his previous films Blessed Are the Children, Stranger Among the Living, and Triggered, (not to be confused with the South African film Triggered) it’s a horror film with a strong dose of religious and social commentary. His previous films have managed to walk the line between delivering scares and delivering their message, can he keep that steak going here?
Tammy (Keni Bounds; Blessed Are the Children) is marrying Robbie. This doesn’t sit well with her children Emma and Jackson (Lewis Hines; Mimi: Blood Thicker Than Water). Maybe because he’s a religious zealot who demands total obedience and finds sin in everyone but himself. And he doesn’t consider making advances on his own stepdaughter as sinful.
- 4/21/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
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