From teen comedies to horror movies, the cruel, abusive world of conversion therapy camps has served as inspiration for many movies in the past few decades.
Some, like 2000’s But I’m a Cheerleader, manage to capture and poke fun at the ridiculous, pseudo-scientific set of ideologies this kind of “therapy” espouses.
Meanwhile, others, such as the 2022 slasher They/Them, fail to properly harness the horror of these institutions and turn them into something cinematically terrifying.
Between these two extremes are those movies that tackle the issue of sexual conversion without subterfuges — straightforward dramas that purport to show us the pain and trauma caused by these places for what they are.
This approach has produced what is by far the best movie about conversion camps ever made, a heartfelt indie gem by the name of The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
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