Unreal, Part II

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Slasher Slag Mag
132mm x 197mm, 48 pages

PSYCHO HOMO ISSUE

Inside UNREAL’s brand-new, hot-off-the-press print issue: we out AMERICAN PSYCHO’s Patrick Bateman and CRIMINAL LAW’s Martin Thiel IV; we celebrate FRIDAY THE 13TH’s overlooked “good gay” Brenda Jones; we lust after Billy Zane in DEAD CALM; and we rave about IN A VIOLENT NATURE, KILLER WORKOUT, and MOONSTALKER.

Slasher or slasher-adjacent — love is love, y’all.

Contents:

Letter from the editor:
For one queer kid, DEAD CALM became a metaphor: for what coming out might destroy, and what it might set free.

True crime:
A convicted killer, missing children, and a story that won’t die: CROPSEY explores the blurred line between myth and reality.

Cover story (I):
• BAD GAY
Oh, how we love a repressed, monstrous gay character — and CRIMINAL LAW’s Martin Thiel IV (Kevin Bacon), a blue-blooded Boston serial killer, is a criminally underrated example of the trope.

Cover story (II):
• ANOTHER BAG GAY
Gather round: let’s all laugh at AMERICAN PSYCHO’s one-dimensional, misogynist caricature. A buffoon. A pathetic, whimpering crybaby. A hysterical wimp. Wait — why is he holding an axe?

Cover story (III):
• GOOD GAY
Camp Crystal Lake’s Brenda Jones (Laurie Bartram) was — maybe, probably, definitely — queer-coded.

Reviews:
• IN A VIOLENT NATURE
• KILLER WORKOUT
• MOONSTALKER

Extra features:
• PLEIN SOLEIL
• THE DEEP
• SMILEY FACE KILLERS: THE HUNT FOR JUSTICE (2009)
• SMILEY FACE KILLERS (2020)