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[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was pretty bad and handled the subject matter extremely poorly. I hated it a lot.

The premise is strong, a summer camp lasher flick but the camp is for "conversion therapy". However it manages to be transphobic, homophobic, and enbyphobic even outside of the scenes of adults abusing queer children. Theres a lot of that "oh theyre queerphobic but actually theyre secretly gay haha gotcha!" bullshit. Theres this femboy guy who plays this femme fatale role, iirc he was one of the camp's "success stories" and he really didnt deserve to get got IMO. At the end the murderer turns out be a victim of the camp from a couple decades back and the teenage protagonist lectures this mindfucked middle aged lesbian about how revenge is wrong and that, if you think about it she's worse than the child abusers (and occasionally murderers) that she killed... because reasons?

It was cool that the protag was a transmasc nonbinary person, you don't get to see that kind of representation very often. Too bad they are an incredibly boring character. I think this movie was made for straight liberals to watch and go "look at those bad people! Good thing Im not like them!" Meanwhile some of these scenes will personally resonate with a queer audience in ways that are uncomfortable at best and triggering at worst. The thing is it's very competently made and at no point does it even approach "so bad its good" territory.

[-] AmericaDeserved711@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

and he really didnt deserve to get got IMO.

sounds like they threw that in just to insist that the villain was actually bad, because otherwise her actions would be morally justified if she was only killing her abusers. missed a golden opportunity to make the slasher the hero of the story

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