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...

bc im totally straight and I thought hedwig and the angry inch was brilliant. not all gay movies are lame just most of them. but how many "gay" movies are made by gay people vs straight people trying to make a genre film. there are just movies, not straight movies or gay movies or black movies ect and the sooner we all stop needlessly classifying people the sooner we can stop doing it to our movies.

DeCocteau makes gay soft-porn well, in my opinion. So, I'm not excited at all by horror movies being remade with gay themes by him. I would rather he tackle remaking Warhol classics: Trash, Flesh for Frankenstein, etc. He's good at that camera panning over the male physique erotically thing. If inspiration is truly needed as to how to implement gay characters properly into a storyline, filmmakers should turn to Clive Barker. Funny... gay folks are not exotic, they are common and everywhere. If Nancy's character in "Nightmare on Elm Street" was revamped as a gay male with the same exact plot, I see no difficulty in the subject matter being tackled as long as the filmmakers were focused on the quality of the film and not the emphasis on the sexuality of the character. I'm a gay male who loves horror movies and grew up in a very haunted house. I have stories that would make anyone cringe. I'm definitely a token on those storylines, though. No one else could nail the angst like a gay male because the ghosts taunted my sexuality as much as possible.

loads of popular horror movies have gay subtexts. Classic examples are 'The Lost Boys' ,Interview with the Vampire, Nightmare on Elm Street 2 , and loads of other vampire films already mentioned in this post. Plus Clive Barker, one of the best horror novelists is openly gay. NOES 2 is the most obvious film . The lead character Jesse is male and goes to his mate's grady's house and states "he's trying to get inside me" after he leaves the pool party but not before grady say's "lisa's in the cabana and you want to sleep with me? " Plus, in one scene lets not forget he goes to a gay bar and the s&m lovin' coach takes him back to the school , ropes ready for some action until Krueger emerges and kills him. NOES 2 oozes homosexual subtext. The Lost Boys is another. The lead vampire, David , is after the new guy in town Michael and he 'turns' him into a vampire and wants him to "be one of us" which is hanging out with a bunch of guys with BIG hair . Then Michael spends the rest of the movie wearing very feminine sunglasses.Gay themes have been around in horror for ages.

If they really want to scare and shock people they should put a gay couple man or woman in the new Friday the 13th remake, a mainstream horror movie like that would be a giant step forward ..... I mean everyone knows a gay person now days & if you don't statistically you are one.

I agree runbitch, that would be awesome. I don't see why they don't. It's not like it would have any effect on the film's Box Office gross. appleOFdiscord, I too have to say I'm really surprised by a lot of the comments on here not being negative. I was afraid to read the comments on this piece of news because

Oh man, I accidentily hit enter before I was done with my previous comment... Anyway, I was afraid the comments would all be moronic and offensive but that's mostly not the case. As for my thoughts on this news? I'd be excited about it if it weren't for David DeCoteau. His movies are so lame. Even if I did buy Voodoo Academy ;). I mean, I like the idea of his movies in a way - not the actual "plots" or anything, but his response to all of the gratuitous female nudity in many horror films. It's nice to see some male flesh for once, except it's just guys in boxer-briefs. I believe for his target audience he really doesn't take it far enough. He could at least show a rear, and his characters aren't even gay. So what's the point? I don't see how it could be enough to satisfy anyone really... It would be really cool to get a good, well-made horror movie with gay characters for a change, but I find all of the ones that try this to be underwhelming. Hellbent was pretty good, but not as good as I was hoping. Same with Driftwood. Is it too much for someone to make an actual good, quality gay horror film? You don't need a big budget to do it. And if it's good enough then it will transcend the gay sub-genre and appeal to a wider audience, probably becoming a cult-classic. Someone please make a good gay horror film! It seems like they never really try because they figure just being remotely gay will be good enough for the "gays." Something needs to come along and raise the bar on gay horror. There are tons of gay horror fans out there. Whatever happened to that one vampire movie in a gay bar that I saw the trailer for a couple of years ago? I don't remember the name.

Oh wow this is freakin' neat! I am gay and it's awesome how the movie industry is starting to accept that they are gay people in this world and not straight only! :)

I think it could be fun? I mean they are remaking everything anyway...why should this be any different? I hope they do them campy...I miss campy horror...well that is MENT to be campy that is;)