Set over a week-long session at the camp, the film focuses on various campers, led by trans and nonbinary Jordan (Theo Germaine), as they undergo psychological torment from the camp’s programming.

When an unidentified killer begins claiming victims, the kids must team up to protect each other, both from the killer and from the camp staff.

Anna Chlumsky and Carrie Preston join Bacon as Camp Whistler staff members.

Quei Tann, Austin Crute, Monique Kim, Anna Lore, Cooper Koch and Darwin del Fabro portray Jordan’s friends and fellow campers.

The film is the directorial debut of John Logan, best known until now for his Oscar-nominated scripts for Gladiator, The Aviator, and Hugo.

“They/Them has been germinating within me my whole life,” Logan said. “I’ve loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent ‘the other’ and as gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden. I wanted to make a movie that celebrates queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up.

When people walk away from the movie, I hope they’re going to remember the incredible love that these kids have for each other and how that love needs to be protected and celebrated.”

Gay Directors, Gay Films? By Emanuel Levy (Columbia University Press, August 2015).

Logan will also executive produce the film, along with Bacon, Scott Turner Schofield, Howie Young and Jon Romano.

Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar produce for Blumhouse.