Queer Fear

Horror has a huge LGBTQ+ following but the studios still have their issues… …

Many of Landon’s horror movies feature LGBTQ+ supporting characters and Drop is no exception. But can he see a horror movie with a gay lead coming to cinemas any time soon? “Oh, fuck no!”, laughs the filmmaker, who is gay himself. “Here’s a great example, and I won’t name names. I wrote a movie based on a very big and popular IP that had a gay lead, and that was the thing that stopped it from getting made. [The studio] just couldn’t deal with it; they were worried that it would alienate half the audience or half our country [the US] in particular. “So it didn’t move forward. It was a shame as it was actually one of the best scripts I’ve ever written. I was insanely proud of it,…

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