this must have been inspired by the gay themed friday the 13th remake coming in febuary 2009

I'd be interested if David DeCoteau wasn't involved. TEN films? Why not give some new talent a chance?

gay how??

The thought is great but in this day and age it will probably end up being a joke unless there up to Brokeback Mountain standards.

It'll just be Gaysploitation. I don't mind films and tv shows that are about or have gay themes in them. That's fine. But when you basically make a porno or tasteless flick, then I don't wanna see it. I'm not interested in seeing two dudes going at it myself, two girls though... Anyway, all I'm saying is that if it's done seriously and not just made into some homo-erotic porno, then I might watch, otherwise I'll pass. P.S. Friday the 13th remake IS NOT gay. Looks FUCKIN kickass!

So are these going to be pornographic? Nevermind actually. Nothing new...

Gross.

WTF!!! Thats horrible!!!

How drastically would one need to re-write a pre-existing feature to be "gay themed?" No, I'm not angry or anything here, just innocently curious. I can see taking a couple that appears in the story and making them a same sex couple and other such tweaks, but that seems more like gay incidentals than gay themed. Still, if you want your demographic to be counted and validated in cinema, injecting bits and pieces of it into stories that have already been around for decades is just plain lazy. Make a new and original film including gay subject matter. I'm sure your demographic would have more appreciation for such an effort and it would be more rewarding for you.

And another thing: Why is it that when someone mentions gay subject matter appearing in an upcoming feature, everyone immediately thinks it's going to be porn and pushes the panic button? Just so you guys know, it takes under a single day to shoot a porn film. That means that gay porn films are virtually cascading onto the shelves of the stores in which they're sold. If you're so worried that the gay subject matter of a handful of upcoming genre remakes might be too explicit, just think of the thousands of hours of gay porn you're "not" living in fear of.

theyll probrably be campy, featuring a cast made up entirely of impossibly attractive young men who go shirtless for most of the film for no real reason other then to show off their 12 packs. I wont be watching. Ive never seen a gay themed film that has ever been worth the rental price. theyre all tight shirts, techno, and jokes about divas. I just dont get it. and this is coming from a queer.

Aren't these movies already gay????

It is an outrage that people can live how they want. And there's films portraying these people? That IS terrible. How dare they make genre films involving an often overlooked fact of life. What kind of free-thinking society do we live in? Bravo to B-D for actually covering this. Although, homophobia is quite scary so I guess not covering this article would've fit with some of the less fortunate ignorant readers.

If they want to see how a gay themed horror mnovie is done right, Hellbent from a few years back would be a good example. Not a perfect movie, but it had higher standards than what I expected, and it didn't transform into a slasher porno either! (So in that case, maybe it was even LESS sexual than the average hetero slasher film with all their scenes of teen sex???) Anyways, I'm sure these will be low budget exploitation movies with lots of skin and twinks looking deeply into each others eyes. And when mentioning The Brotherhood...does the article mean NEW installments in the series? Or a "gay remake"? Because I've seen the first two, and they can't come much gayer! Seriously, if those were supposed to be heterosexual movies, then the director is a severe closet case.

I have to say i am surprised at how most comments where actually very positive. That just goes to show how horror film fans like us aren't a bunch of brain less savages as some people might depict us to be. I am all in favor of such remakes, gay people need to be able to relate to these movies more.

I'm 100% homo... so im okie with this... im proud of being gay, and im happy society is starting to accept us in film apart from stuff like brokeback mountain (best fucking heath ledger and jake sex scene, he so gets ass fucked)!!!

So, let me get this. A director of gay porn is remaking a bunch of (lame) old horror movies with gay themes? WHAT? WHY? Regardless of people wanting gay movies to be accepted in pop culture, why do they have to REMAKE movies to do it? Make new gay movies if that is their endeavor, but don't ruin old movies just to make them gayer (and I mean that both ways).

How about a Night of the Living Dead remake with Gay Zombies! Wait a minute....is this the studio that's doing the Nightmare on Elm Street remake?

LOL - you pull "this sounds gay" umm... ok - i can understand pulling the thing about gay movies are for fags but now hold on - the guy above my quote raving about Heath romping Jake in BrokeBack & how much he loves it - ooooook. Bloody-retarded.com 'edit' 'edit' 'snip' snip' now tuck you fucking dick Rick.

I agree that HELLBENT was a cool gay flick that was effective and niche-marketed (my favorite idea from the movie was to glam up rubber body parts with blood red glitter and hang them everywhere). I'm not sure the gay demo is specifically demanding gay horror movies unless you mean gay vampire movies. Since the beginning of time vampires have always had ambiguous sexuality (Dracula, Fright Night, Hunger) and don't tell me that The Descent didn't have some super lesbian vibe to it - I was hoping they'd make it out of that cave and fix my new VW Beetle. I say more power to Here! and let's hope these movies are better than SciFi Channel's "movies".

That sucks.

I've watched all of Dave Decoteau's movie on the here! television network and they are brilliant. You straight folks don't know what it's like to grow up without images of yourself on tv and in movies. The finest horror movies in the world were directed by James Whale an openly gay man, long before it was popular. If Whale were alive, he would be Decoteau's biggest fan!

i saw one of his movies, ring of darkness, because Ryan Starr was in it. she was my favorite on American Idol (yes i watch it tho i kno i shouldnt :() the movie wasn't gay porn but there were a lot of pointless scenes of guys running around in tight boxer briefs. for example, the final confrentation i forgot what was happening exactly but to do the ritual all the men had to strip almost naked. i thought it was kind of stupid and not necessariy at all. thing is his movies are usually really cheesy and produced on low budgets. so anyone who watches the films for any reason shouldn't expect much from them.

sounds great! i like the idea. =] we need more gay characters in our movies. it might make gay people less hated in the world.

next thing you know they'll be putting serious black characters in horror movies...