Saturday, June 30, 2012
HEADS UP
Today's gay film was the fun and scary
This is a gay slasher film. Get it? Hell bent.
Halloween in West Hollywood and four (or more) roommates and friends go out to party. The night after two gay men got decapitated in a lovers lane location. We see the lover's lane thing and then follow the guys who start their night with a thrill stop at the murder site.
They decide to park there and walk over the wooded hill to Santa Monica Boulevard to the party.
OK.
From there on it is a familiar stalking, beheading, running, hiding series of slash events.
The guys are great to look at. If a bit naive, they are all prime. The fact that they are gay is actually incidental. The stalker, who we see in outline, wears a mask and is in the mood for Halloween as well.
What can I say? I fell for it all hook, line and sinker. There is even some romance in a parallel story line.
Low budget but remarkably well produced by slasher veterans much is made of what turns out to be, in the "making of" feature, not very much raw material. Lights and camera with a bit of special effects go a long way.
I enjoyed it very much.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
The horror is bookended with some pretty good soft porn. It makes the "worry" more acute.
One thing about the making of featurette. All the actors imply or say that they are straight and talk a bit about how it really isn't different to act gay. Including the kissing and caressing.
These guys are gay. I saw the "acting". Inspired.
I suppose it is a career thing but if you are in a slasher film you have already blown your serious credibility.
