The first gay horror film about a conversion therapy camp is being filmed

Blumhouse's horror film about a gay reparative camp, tentatively titled Whistler Camp, is being helmed by three-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan as his directorial debut.

Mid-budget horror production company Blumhouse has announced production on Whistler Camp, a horror film set at a summer conversion therapy center for gay teens.

Screenwriter John Logan has been chosen to direct the film, which is described as “a story of queer empowerment.” This is his debut as a director, and he is known as the author of the scripts for many films (from “The Aviator” to “Skyfall”) and, mainly, as the man who invented the series “Penny Dreadful”.

Conversion (or reparative) therapy is an unscientific and often violent and tortuous practice of “correcting” sexual orientation and gender identity. In 20 US states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 85 municipalities (mainly located in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota). Banned conversion therapy for minors. The Columbia metropolitan area is the only U.S. jurisdiction where the ban also applies to adults. Using a conversion camp as a horror setting allows for something suspenseful and politically conscious to be expected.


Films about victims of conversion therapy exist, but in the genre of dark indie dramas (Erased Identity, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Fixing Frank), but in the territory of canonical teen horror this topic will become the basis of the plot for the first time.