After premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul is out in theaters now, starring Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown, Austin Crute, Nicole Beharie, and Conphidance.
You can also stream it on Peacock here.
Teen Vogue: They/Them Stars Austin Crute, Theo Germaine On the “Fun” of Horror and Making Lifelong Friends On Set
Austin Crute and Theo Germaine, stars of the new queer slasher thriller They/Them, spend about sixty full seconds gassing each other up over Zoom. “You did such a good job,” Theo says, referring to Austin’s performance in the film. “You did such a good job, get out of here,” says Austin about Theo’s take on their character.
The two actors gushing over each other confirms that their genuine — and frankly, adorable — off-screen connection mirrors their on-screen friendship. Though unfortunately, their friendship in They/Them isn’t as lighthearted. Theo and Austin’s characters are forced to become friends under grave circumstances, finding solace and protection in one another as they try to survive the horrors of a queer conversion camp.
They/Them, pronounced “they slash them” and out today on Peacock, follows a group of LGBTQ+ teens arriving at Whistler Camp, a “progressive” week-long conversion camp nestled away in the woods. Camp leader Owen Whistler (played by Kevin Bacon) promises a gentle approach, one that will help the teens find “a new sense of freedom.” Yet, with each passing day, the young campers are psychologically targeted by the camp’s counselors in attempts to manipulate and destroy their sexual and gender identities. As the psychological threats persist, a physical threat manifests: a masked killer begins to claim victims at the camp. The teens must join forces to not only make it through the week, but to make it out of Whistler Camp alive…CONTINUE TO ARTICLE
SYFY WIRE: The Director and Stars of 'They/Them' Reveal How They Found the Heart of This Horror Story
"When the casting came about, it's like when we all met each other, instantly our personalities just started gelling and we started feeding off each other," Crute said. "When all of these personalities, seven personalities, are in a place, we're all in real life developed in different ways. We have our own queer journeys and our own queer stories and our own hangups and things like that, so to kind of just talk with each other and see, 'Oh, you deal with that? That's funny that you said that, because I grew up with this and that, and just like exchanging [experiences]. I think we helped refine our characters.'" CONTINUE TO ARTICLE
The Cut: Best Party Pics of the Week
If there was ever a time to party, it’s today: Beyoncé day. Here are the best outfits of the week as seen at parties by Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Saks — plus Netflix’s They/Them premiere and Hulu’s Not Okay.
Just Yes: Austin Crute
Austin Crute’s outfit at the They/Them premiere is so simple yet so right. From his polished nails to his jewelry to his pleated pants, the actor looked flawless…CONTINUE TO ARTICLE
Variety: ‘They/Them’ Stars On Why Queerness and Horror Are A Perfect Combination
“They/Them,” a new Blumhouse slasher that promises a queer take on the horror genre, is set to go straight to streaming on Peacock next month. But before that, the film received a full in-person theatrical screening, as the closing night premiere of Los Angeles queer film festival Outfest.
All of the cast members who play the campers in “They/Them” are queer actors, which helped them approach the material from a real place. During the premiere, Crute, who plays fun-loving camper Toby, told Variety the project spoke to him, as he struggled with a desire to conform while he was growing up.
“I’ve never set foot in a gay conversion camp, but there was a time in my life where maybe I would have given in to the pressures around me to conform,” Crute said. “I think that this movie spoke to an inner child in me that wanted to be seen, and now I feel seen, and it’s incredible.” CONTINUE TO ARTICLE
Deadline: Outfest Wraps With World Premiere Of Horror Film ‘They/Them’
The 40th edition of the Outfest LGBTQ+ film festival in Los Angeles is in the books after the closing night world premiere of Peacock’s horror film They/Them (pronounced They-Slash-Them).
Kevin Bacon and Carrie Preston star as a couple who run a Christian-oriented ‘gay conversion therapy’ camp in a remote, wooded area, preaching a contradictory philosophy of self-acceptance and what amounts to self-denial. A fresh busload of LGBT and non-binary youths show up for ‘treatment,’ most of them dispatched by their families hoping they will learn to conform to societal norms.
Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick attended the premiere, along with most of the cast and filmmaker John Logan, one of Hollywood’s top screenwriters and a three-time Oscar nominee who makes his directorial debut with They/Them.
Austin Crute (Booksmart) plays Toby, a camper who’s not down with the whole gay conversion thing.
“It is so fulfilling to be a part of a film like this,” Crute said. “It’s not every day that you get to sign up for a horror movie surrounding the empowerment of queer people.” CONTINUE TO ARTICLE
Deadline Reveals First Look At Austin Crute's Upcoming Peacock Horror Film 'They/Them'
Peacock today unveiled They/Them, a new Blumhouse pic starring Kevin Bacon (City on a Hill), Anna Chlumsky (Inventing Anna), Carrie Preston (Claws), Theo Germaine (4400), Austin Crute (Call Your Mother), Monique Kim (What/If), Anna Lore (All American), Cooper Koch (Power Book II: Ghost), Darwin del Fabro (Dangerous Liaisons) and Quei Tann, which will debut on the streamer on August 5th…CONTINUE TO ARTICLE
Austin Crute Cast in John Logan Blumhouse Horror Film Headed To Peacock
Austin Crute is joining the cast of Blumhouse’s upcoming John Logan feature directorial debut. Quei Tann, Austin Crute, Anna Lore, Monique Kim, Cooper Koch, and Darwin del Fabro are joining already cast Kevin Bacon, Anna Chlumsky, Theo Germain and Carrie Preston in the feature written by the 3x Oscar nominated Hugo scribe. The horror film set at a gay conversion camp, will stream on Peacock…CONTINUE TO ARTICLE