Joe Dallesandro is a young hustler in Andy Warhol Presents: Flesh (1968). The movie follows Joe throughout the day as he picks up men and tries to hustle the cash his wife is demanding. Much of the film revolves around Joe getting naked (much full frontal) for one reason or another. Art? Or an excuse to get a cute guy nekked? You decide, but either way a fascinating movie.
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.
In Like It Is (1998), Craig (Steve Bell) is a young bare knuckle boxer who comes to London and comes out by falling for Matt (Ian Rose) a music producer whose fag hag is extremely jealous. Roger Daltry even puts in an appearance as Matt’s gay boss.
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.
Sideline Secrets (2005) attempts to mix a young man’s coming out story with a mystery / thriller about guys disappearing around town. Except for the occasional bits of nudity, it has the feel of an “afterschool special.” James Townsend is Devon a young man who is coming to grips with his sexuality who falls for a former (?) hustler Brian (Alex Wilson). He gets found out by his way dysfunctional family and finds his girlfriend is remarkably understanding (this was the part that was really hard to believe). He then finds himself embroiled in an unbelivably coincidental way in a scheme to force young twinks into prostitution. The unlikely chain of events gets more and more unbelievable to the point of being absolutely hilarious by the end.
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:
But then we knew that. . . . right?
Dieux du Stade: not quite a documentary (more like soft core porn), but follows the making of a calendar full of naked French rugby players. Hmmmm, naked rugby sounds like a sport I could get into.
In Leaving Metropolis (2002), a well to do gay artist (Troy Ruptash) has hit a dry spell. To get a jump start, he becomes a part time waiter to get himself out of the house and find inspiration. He helps the married couple who own the diner to increase their business, and then finds himself painting and falling for the curious husband (Vince Corazza).
