Monday 4 March 2024

They/Them (2022)

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Lots of good performances, but it's half uneventful tropey slasher and half shallow tropey conversion camp pic, ending up as an unsatisfying whole. It also doesn't make a whole ton of sense, and it feels compromised by its unwillingness to kill or even put in mortal danger any of the queer kids.

The slasher genre is so rote that it's difficult to make interesting even when melding it with something else, and this joins the likes of Freaky, The Final Girls, Happy Death Day 2 U, Bodies Bodies Bodies and many more in missing the mark.

Rating: disappointing