Rupert Everett in Cemetary Man (1994) aka Dellamorte Dellamore as a cemetary caretaker who has to kill the dead that rise again in his cemetary each night. He meets a lovely widow who just has to have sex with him on her husband’s grave. Can you guess where that goes? Zombie gore galare.
Dante’s Cove
Dante’s Cove, the gay Dark Shadows (although I don’t remember Barnabas (Jonathan Frid) getting nekkid with Dr. Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall)). Dante’s Cove starts with a lover’s spat between Grace (Tracy Scoggins) and Ambrosius (William Gregory Lee) in the 1840’s. Turns out Grace is a witch and doesn’t take kindly to finding Ambrosius getting boffed by his butler just before their wedding. Grace proceeds to go all red eyed and turn the butler to toast. She then proceeds to tie Ambrosius up in the basement and slap a curse on him.
We then come to the present day for a little soft core porn with Tobey (Charlie David) and Kevin (Gregory Michael). After much frolicing on the beach and in the bedroom, Kevin leaves home and moves in with Tobey in the haunted hotel Dante. Kevin gets lured down to the basement of the hotel and inadvertantly frees the imprisoned Ambrosuis.
The DVD cover proclaims this a “guilty pleasure” which just about sums it up. Lots of eye candy, little to take seriously, but not bad all in all.
The Covenant
They’re a group of privileged young witch-boys on the swim team. Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Taylor Kitsch, Chance Crawford, and Toby Hemingway play the warlocks.
Hellbent
Billed as “the first ever gay slasher film,” Hellbent follows a group of young gay men who are off to a Halloween festival. Now a couple of things we learn:
- (1) When you live in a town with grisly unsolved mass murders, don’t go walking through the woods at night.
(2) When you do go walking through the woods at night anyway, don’t taunt the masked psycho killer, it just makes him mad.
(3) When you think you’ve escaped the masked psycho killer, wait to make sure before you let your boyfriend handcuff you to the bed.
But then we knew that. . . . right?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser with Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters about James Whale, the gay director of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein who becomes obsessed with the attractive young gardner working on his lawn.