After a run-in with a conversion therapy preacher, the boys are haunted by a demon that takes the form of whoever they desire most — each other.Chiarella wanted to make a film about homophobia, but not the kind he'd already seen."I wanted to make a film that addressed this idea of homophobia and what it means today," he says."We'd made so much progress when I was growing up as a young gay man, but in this last decade or so, things have started to regress a little bit."Horror movies are often about an exploration of fear.He initially considered a queer spin on The Exorcist after reading about exorcisms performed on LGBTQI+ teenagers around the world Put a queer love story inside a horror film, a genre not particularly known for happy endings, and the concern compounds.Chiarella says he was deliberate about where he wanted audiences to land."I did not want to land in the 'bury your gays' trope with this film," he says."I turned back to my love of horror movies and the truth is, as much as horror movies seem like a really dark genre, they're actually not super depressing