T Blockers

T Blockers (2023)

When ancient parasites rise from beneath a small town, taking the most fearful and susceptible as hosts, a young trans filmmaker finds herself the only one who can sense the possessed, and rally the resistance before the horror escapes and spreads.

Data di uscita
2023-04-28
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (15)
Durata
1 h 12 min
Generi
Horror, Fantascienza
Regista
Alice Maio Mackay

Cast

Curiosità

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T Blockers is a 2023 Australian horror film directed by Alice Maio Mackay. The film centres on a young transgender woman in an Australian small town who becomes aware of parasites that are taking over the local men, and forms a vigilante group with her friends to get the problem under control.

Production

Mackay made T Blockers in Adelaide at the age of 17 with a budget of $10,000. She was interested in exploring the theme of chasers:

We made [chasers] literal parasites to tell it from an angle that made sense for these characters. I could have told a grounded story but I feel it would be kind of depressing because there's no real world in which these characters are going to kill these shitty men - they're just going to have to deal with them and then the film ends.

She was influenced by the works of Gregg Araki, including Now Apocalypse and The Doom Generation, which also informed her use of bisexual lighting. She told ScreenHub that she loved Araki's "hyper-stylised worlds and authentic, uncensored queer stories, as well as the witty banter and sci-fi elements", and was also influenced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its "perfect amalgamation of girlhood, coming-of-age, teen friendship stuff, and those spo…

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