A group of LGBTQ+ kids are sent to a conversion camp run by a deceptively disarming Kevin Bacon, not to pray the gay away, per se, but to adapt to and accept gender normative roles or else pay an uncertain price. Also, there's a killer picking people off. Any description of the events of "They/Them" is liable to make the movie sound a lot more fun than it actually is. Alas, this a movie that, erm, plays it straight when it comes to material rife for dark comedy and whodunit mystery, to say nothing of the fact that events play out in such a way as to make it pretty obvious who the killer is and what their motive likely is. What little interest there is to be found here is the unknowns of just how far Bacon and his cadre of counselors are willing to go in order to convert their young quarries to their mode of living, and the best scene of the movie is indeed a fleeting glimpse of the kind of depths they're willing to plumb. It's a shame that the writers, as well as writing a bunch of queer characters who speak almost exclusively in affirmative cliches and catchphrases, felt the need to saddle "They/Them" with a conventional slasher movie subplot that's impossible to have any interest in even when the mask comes off. This movie isn't half as bad as a lot of people claim, but it's very mediocre -- and that's kinda worse.
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