Director of the series, Damien Leone, said they are not. Horror fanbase 
disagree
https://x.com/damienleone/status/1886453068125864114
Hopefully I never have to bring up politics publicly ever again but this desperately needed to be said on behalf of the Terrifier franchise π pic.twitter.com/b7soIj9P33
— Damien Leone (@damienleone) February 3, 2025
Terrifier is a horror slasher film series known for its extreme gore
Take time to read the very reasonable, if not meek take from the director of the slasher in regard to their horror slasher franchise. Why he tweeted this I have no idea
: that's nice but what about the LGBT community. Im gay btw
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The horror fanbase apparently is like the punk and DnD now
HORROR STRAGS EXPLAIN THIS
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I love this 'jak so much
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Why?
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You wouldn't get it
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I only support death of the author if I hate their intent. If I approve of it then their intent matters
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If you aren't exhibiting TDS in at least 50% of your social media posts then you are dogwhistling that you are tolerant of what is happening in this country right now, and you are thus a Nazi. And we will make you regret it.
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Tbh, Melville lacked the media literacy to understand that Moby Peepee represented his latent homosexual fantasies of his fat peepee in Hawthorne's sweet twink butt.
The Terrifier series is as much about pounding trussy as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about the Vietnam War, chud, whether you or the creator want it to be or not.
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Queequeg slipping into Ishmaels bed and snuggling him at the inn in the first chapter which first alarms Ishmael but then he sort of likes it was pretty darned gay.
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Tone shift of Moby Peepee is absurd. First 50 pages are goofy and fun and buddycomedyish; entire rest of the book is not fun
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When the french resistance took to the hills and forests they actually had the ability to survive up there. I doubt modern leftists have those skills
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It was the early modern European wilderness, not fricking colonial Montana. It wasn't exactly the most rigorous survival situation.
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It kinda is when you consider they were being hunted and starving for ammunition and anti tank weapons.
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I'm glad to see wingcucks reverting back to what worked in 2016.
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people who love horror movies enough to develop parasocial relationships with it have been soy for decades, heck just look at the whole Kill count youtuber saga
!chuds
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Ooh, elaborate
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guy makes videos highlighting every kill in slasher movies, this becomes very popular
he finally gets a gf
she's a typical foid-lib, nothing crazy, about what you'd expect if you run in LA film circles at that time at that age
his tone immediately changes, he'll gush about some white guy getting brutally murdered, but then when someone in the movie says "hey toots", he goes"yikes this did not age well"
she now edits his podcast
generally a lot of his commentary in his videos stops being "omg cool kill" and more very typical banal socjus 101 analysis, nothing unique or outrageous, but just ruined what the channel was originally about
here are some greentexts/reddit posts
!chuds !kino !metashit
https://old.reddit.com/r/deadmeatjames/comments/pwjvgw/appreciation_for_revenge_kill_counts_commentary/
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Do these people even like those movies or is it just a cringe aesthetic for them
Gratuitous s*x is like half the appeal
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Yes
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It's safe edgy for immature minds. You're allowed to have extremes of gore, but anything even slightly intercourseualised makes them deeply uncomfortable because while gore isn't realistic, intercourse feelings are things they have too and don't know how to deal with.
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Was your plan to to be their angel
Or just a massive cute twink?
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This reads like some AI generated astroturf review with how generic and fellating it is. I says very little about his actual insights, it just mentions several buzzwords and verbally pats him on the head about it. Disgusting.
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I think he means that people who don't even engage with horror because they're unironically too scared to do so and just watch shitty recap videos to get their fix.
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This is gonna sound incredibly high-tech but: Maybe don't watch horror movies. This is a genre that's either really dumb and about getting stupid girls to let you touch their tits or is ....
... Anne Francis. It was a higher class of girls who we were aiming for.
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my heart is telling me what did he mean by this
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She's...
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Seconding " Ooh, elaborate".
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see below comment
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Horror films are the midwit choice, between the grug b movie action fest and ascended arthouse french cinema with the performers actually fricking each other
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Exactly only horror obsessed dweebs will insist to me that their bloodslop is somehow superior to Casablanca or Rear Window.
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I'm gonna kill myself unless art the clown says trans rights matter.
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Watching Art the Clown chainsaw women's kitties and tits cures my gender dysphoria
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!transphobes !truthnuke !commentersJump in the discussion.
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What? Why do people hate J.K. Rowling???
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J.K. Rowling is a genocidal war criminal who has killed millions of tranx folx all around the world, she is literally just like Hitler and Pol Pot.
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Man made horrors, ladies and gentlemen
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not sure if rightoid or leftoid, but 100% wingnut
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When the girl gets decapitated in Hereditary, Ari Aster wants you to think about my half-healed axe-wound an inch from my anus.
I know this because I went to college
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I haven't seen hereditary cause midsommar reminded me dating a crazy chick whose family baggage was used to trap me in the relationship
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I thought horror was inherently a chud genre?
Fear of the unknown, of the other, HP Lovecraft and all that?
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It can be both!
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No you bigot. Murder, torture, r*pe, and violence are inherently leftist and thats a good thing!
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Simultaneously the worst and best take I've ever read. Worst because it's pure Online nonsense, best because I know they 1000% believe it
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This is how leftism was rendered impotent, by making it mean just about anything from being a movie genre to liking something on social media.
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I like how in the 90s lefties decided the macho man aesthetic was problematic and proceeded to never win men in large droves after that
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everything is political chud
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...and if you don't think so, there's gonna be trouble!
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is this jorobe, the feminist youth pastor who changed his name after he was accused of grooming teenage boys?
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I can see how you'd think that given the distinctive pale physiognomy but I don't think so. This appeaers to he some unfortunate looking nerd.
Jorobe (alias of John Robert Bell now John Christopher Williams to distance from his grooming accusations) is less ginger and more round with a much stronger punch.
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Except for trans rights!
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I didn't find any goofy articles about how it's gay representation, but found stuff about how it's misogynistic and transphobic
https://outwritenewsmag.org/2023/06/to-walk-a-mile-in-her-shoes-you-must-first-wear-her-skin/
https://chican3ry.medium.com/its-not-debatable-that-the-terrifier-franchise-is-misogynist-3857748960be
https://cinematicdoctrine.com/2024/10/24/terrifier-a-gendered-look-at-its-kills-and-how-they-assert-its-inherent-misogyny/
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He does cut off a dude's dingdong mid-piss in the second movie. I should've realized he was just helping the guy transition
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Also the actress who gets mutilated in that scene is herself a
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The films are literally just an excuse for him to sell tickets to his practical effects demo reels. Calling Terrifier political is like calling a collection of sales photographs political.
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Yep, it's one of the most uninspired movies I've ever seen 20 minutes of lol
Kinda like how John Wick is just a movie made by someone born with dope-stunt autism (based), Terrifier is made by someone who doesn't understand acting, directing, writing, lighting, pace,language, humans, or movies.
But he knows makeup and corn-syrup-to-red-dye ratios to a fricking T.
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more important than politics, have any of these people actually watched the terrifier movies? they fricking suck
winnie the poo blood and honey was some how better than them and that movie was absolute shit
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https://rdrama.net/post/339445/are-the-terrifier-films-political-staments/7737335#context oops I should've responded to you.
Even for shoestring shlock 'content' intending only to provide a backstory to a clown mask at Spirit, Terrifier is worthless. I'm glad that now its wild popularity is better explained today by my own media literacy.
Unrelated, but can you fund my ping group for people who hate A Quiet Place?
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A Quiet Place shows the important message of how deaf people are a menace and will kill your child.
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!kino already exists
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i did, and yes, they do suck
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I have a friend who talks about these movies and how much they love them and it's just disturbing to me. Gore and violence for the sake of it isn't healthy. Especially when it's just slaughtering people with less a plot than usual. The franchise is so blatantly on the nose it feels like they forgot to add in a second act twist of someone who can kill this thing coming in.
Why isn't that in horror movies more too? Have some grizzled old bastard suddenly step in and flip the script on who is hunting who? Basically I won't watch any slasher unless it turns into the Predator at the end.
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How???? Explain how exactly???
Like if we consider the origins or horror to be gothic literary fiction - nothing there is anymore gay than any other fiction from the period. The pulp fiction of the 19th and 20th century tended towards being lurid, but to imply lurid=gay would be offensive, right?
The silent and pre-code horror films most well known have no significant predilection for cute twinkry. Then you get into the 30s, 40s, 50s - where are these numerous so-called queer horror films?
By the time you've gotten to the 70s and home video era, all genre and b-movies had been so thoroughly sexualised that you'd be r-slurred to imply horror is especially sexuality liberated re the gays compared to anything else.
Moving forward to last few decades, there's a handful of horror movies with gay themes and then of course you have the ubiquitious 2020s film with "queer themes" (but zero actual sexuality at all because zoomers find s*x scenes icky).
I am unironically seething at a tweet by some regard who just said a random collection of words about horror films = queer, I hate everyone with a Letterboxd account for doing this
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Historically speaking, any schlock cinema genre has a lower barrier to entry, which means you can find gay directors or themes earlier in the genre's history. Think of Ed Wood making one of the first
films.
That said, when it comes to horror I think it's more just that the current fanbase has a lot of the cringe punk larpers in it, and they always need to justify how their chosen slop is deep and meaningful and political.
On a more academic note, the most important thing to understand about queer theory is that when you go deep enough, "queer" actually just wraps around to mean "weird" again. I am not joking or exaggerating. Being gay is weird, just like torture porn and musicals are weird. Therefore it's all connected because it all undermines the pgdajgdg gfegbj thffj juoeujhj fihf
!bookworms
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Right. I figured this was partially what was going on here.
Sometimes this makes a tiny bit of sense - like John Waters 70s and 80s output essentially has no literally queer characters, but aesthetically and contextually (ie a morbidly obese drag queen is supposed to be seen as a typical 1950s "women's picture" protagonist) - but I still think this comes back to rb assertion that ickiness and grotesqueness is in and of itself gay
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It's a $35,000 movie that spent $30,000 on a mannequin for the clown to saw in half from butt to brain.
The clown has no dialogue and no motives.
This is a metaphor for trans rights.
!kino
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Lefties watch horror movies and identify with the monster. Shit like this is why I hate the "horror community" plus I appreciate more aesthetic stuff over the kinda cheesy camp trash mongering. My kinda trash was like the mothman prophecies I watched recently where its just some dude wandering around schizo with cool cinematography.
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Letterbox is bad for the soul.
Movie reviews were not meant to be posted on line.
They were meant to be scrawled on the walls of public restrooms.
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A black woman invented the telescope
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Queer in modern parlance means being as repulsive and gross and ugly as possible, and the fouler and grosser you are the more queer and therefore valid you are, hence all the tumblr tots all being obsessed with that clip of the 80s dragon queen saying eat feces and frick corpses or whatever
Horror is the genre closest to the ideal of just putting ugly and foul stuff on screen for the pure sake of it being ugly and foul, so they all latch on to it
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OUT!
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Everything is political, chud
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Except my politics, those are just human rights
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If he had the psychotic murder clown, in the middle of ripping someone's intestines out, turn to the camera and deadpan "trans rights are human rights" before immediately going back to torturously mutilating its victim, I get the impression these people would think it was a win and not mocking them.
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Frick the Terrifier movies. Not because of this but because they're fricking lame and way too long.
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Why do people name their kid Damien
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If there is any horror film which is non political its the Terrifier series which is probably the only movie of being labeled "gore porn" (maybe minus those actual porn films in the 70s to 80s which tried to be real films). The films have no interesting plot or characters or aesthetic or anything. It's all just an excuse for super long and drawn out gorey kills with practical fx instead of s*x. I mean the first movie had sets and acting about on par with your average porn film which is why I totally skipped 2 and 3.
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I'd say queer is a horror genre
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I want to make a very important statement that ALL my posts are entirely political and in full support of whichever position the reader is most opposed to!
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what...which side of the political spectrum would freddy, jason, micheal, chuckie fall on...what about movies with ghosts...are the ghosts political...
the left has gone so off the fricking rails...people watch movies to escape reality or at least they used to...i didnt watch terrifier cause it looks like shit, have heard it was good and gory though...
recent films:
den of thieves 2 - not as good as the first one
the substance - boobs and weirdness meh
nightb-word - post partum depression visualized, if you dont have a new baby or a toddler you cant relate
companion - AI bot, was ok
subservience - AI megan fox bot, gets sexy, but not very good
palm springs - groundhog day in florida with andy samdberg, i enjoyed this
get away - horror/comedy? nick frost (fat guy from sean of the dead) very good movie
i did not think of politics while watching any of these...
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Have I understood this correctly? Or are they the victims of the clown in their LGBTQ+ fantasy where they are saying the clown is straight people and the people getting tortured are women getting misgendered and its the same amount of pain as what the clown does to people?
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There's a well known YouTube video by In Praise of Shadows (a leftist horror guy) where he critiqued the Hills Have Eyes series, wherein he compared the villainous family in the first movie to any oppressed minority, waging battle against authoritarian, cisnormative, white society.
For some reason, minorities in his audience took umbrage at the idea that the male feminist baby murderers were supposed to represent them. And pretty much everyone thought he sounded like an idiot.
Which is to say, don't underestimate a critic's ability to get so into jerking off over their own intellectual ability that they circle back around to being total r-slurs.
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Super Eyepatch Wolf did the same thing where he reviewed Fear & Hunger and was like "wow, you have a subterranean race of blind cannibalistic flesh-eating morlocks? Way to shit on native americans developer, do better" unironically
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I am more surprised the audience took umbrage.
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It must be so disheartening trying to claw at the things you love, weakly moaning about how you just want people to enjoy them while everyone and their mother-in-law is in a berserker rage tearing it apart to fit their overly simplistic worldview.
You can pick someone to side with but at maximum, 60% of that original audience will still be with you and 30 of that 60 are watching cautiously for any misstep to ruin you as a person.
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People who like horror are great. People who comment about horror online are pretty trash.
I heard terrifier 3 had anti Jesus stuff but tbh i found the first installment really bland so im not sure who even enjoys this stuff. Fans of gore coming out to say their political alignment is pretty hilarious as it makes you seem like a degenerate
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ah yes a horror gore slop is a very political movie
i'm not a Quasimodo, but i predict this
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Sopranos reference
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Good, good, good fricking drama.
I love to see centrist or left-leaning celebrity creators get eaten alive by their audience for making seemingly normal statements.
The responses were undoubtedly a wake-up call for him in response to such a seemingly inoffensive statement.
He has learned that it is unacceptable to hint that republicans may be normal people and not a walking, talking nazi regime.
Let the chuddening of Damien Leone commence!
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those movies are extremely misogynistic, so he's def republican
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this completely plot-free demo reel of practical effects would say NOTHING were it not for a political message I made up
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Since when is horror movies for strags? Cause I remember alot of naked women in horror movies.
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No idea I think it is the same time the soytification of DnD and punk or whatever
I bet those slow-burn, anti-religion/woke-theme horror movies also help contribute to this
I keep a tab on the horror community because last year there is one horror youtuber became a huge punching bag
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How is horror gay the homos always die early, like right after the black dude
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ok grandpa let's get you back to the old folks home, the rest of us are talking about movies made less than 30 years ago
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New horror film:
Damien Leone Vs. Death of the Author
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The foid that gets sawed in half in the first one is really hot/has a nice body type but I was too drunk when I watched it to remember much else
I'd guess half of the people that saw it took it even less seriously than I did
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/damienleone/status/1886453068125864114:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Media-literacycels turning around and saying Death of the author is actually a good thing now.
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Those people make
@pizzashill (prior to being broken by Ted) look sane!
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What movie is this?
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Oof kinda cringe the lgbt community supports a movie made by Nazis.
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