![]() Gaymers is a community for LGBT and ally redditors. Streamed early one Saturday morning, and then again later the same day for research purposes on Prime Video. Conversely, Zach Cuddeback (Cliff) appeared in a couple of other DeCoteaus before enjoying a run as the auteur’s right-hand-man performing art direction / production design on such varied shoots as THE GREAT HALLOWEEN PUPPY ADVENTURE (2012), MY STEPBROTHER IS A VAMPIRE!?! (2013), and THE WRONG CHILD (2016) at which point they appear to have parted company. Kristen Glass (The Spirit Girl) had a few bit roles before encountering DeCoteau but seemingly has not worked since. Flannery (Andrew) has continued to work in films and shorts after having also appeared in ACTOR SLASH MODEL and BOY CRAZIES (the legendary DeCoteau duo shot B2B over one weekend). If I get round to watching DANCING ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (2013), you will be amongst the first to know about it.įreddy Roy (Smiley) is only credited on IMDb for this film, and Adam Phebus (Liam) is only credited for this and GIANT KILLER BEES! Graham Rogers has an extensive TV career, and David A. IN BRIEF S: DeCoteau bravely sacrifices plot to bring you more of what you love… CAST NOTESĪforementioned Luke Allen has been in three of the 1313 saga following an appearance in TV series VICTORIOUS (also 2011). IN BRIEF: A vengeful spirit takes possession of the fresh meat on campus. Sometimes this blogging lark pays off… (although their DeCoteau updates have dried up of late…). Having told them all about the mansion, the twinks, the underwear and the seemingly interminable amount of padding DeCoteau uses to give his features adequate length, we hit gold with the first 20 minutes of this one.įun fact 2: The same friends messaged me the next night to say they had watched the rest of the film and enjoyed it (one of them is an experimental filmmaker of some regard…). To illustrate my point, I took the opportunity to show them a title at random from Amazon Prime (which turned out to be HAUNTED FRAT long before I’d get round to reviewing it here….). Which, as a plot summary, is delivered in almost as many sentences of rushed exposition in the actual film…įun fact 1: some friends asked me about the kind of films I write about at TOKEN HOMO during a mid-COVID dinner party (between lockdowns, before you alert anyone…). That the site is now a frat house suggests she has developed a taste for fresh meat…. Her spirit now stalks the corridors enacting ghostly revenge on any passing victims. Over time – and interspersed with frat boy ball games, one borderline erotic possession by fingertips, and an hilariously misplaced orchid… – we learn there may well have been an old asylum on the same site as the mansion and just maybe a young woman was unable to escape her padded cell when the asylum burnt down. The Spirit Girl continues to cast her spell on our frat boys (who can’t see her…) causing them to assault each other off camera in random cotton-clad formations. We later discover a young woman in black, stalking the twinks and taking possession of their flesh (in sequences that remind me of a line from PERSONAL SERVICES, “look, but not to touch…”). It turns out, Smiley (Freddy Roy) is stuck at the frat house writing an essay during Spring Break. Upon waking, he takes a shower to a very porny synth score… And not a word is spoken… He gets 19 minutes of franchise real estate all to himself… The film opens with a random twink enduring a protracted day-for-night fever dream, wandering around a very familiar mansion in his equally familiar underwear. Sadly, none of this stylistic innovation comes to pass… ![]() The film begins with a tantalising title card that suggests we will be treated to “actual surveillance footage, personal video recordings” and – perhaps laughably, given what’s to follow – scenes the filmmakers have “dramatically re-created” to document an inexplicable occurrence at a “chapter of the fraternity”. ![]() I haven’t seen that film (yet…) but I’d wonder what Allen would say about 1313: HAUNTED FRAT? That it contains the leanest script or story of any of the franchise? That his extended shower scene was enough to satisfy his acting appetite (at least, for a while…)? Or that, seeing as I keep on mentioning it in this blog, DeCoteau was indeed inspired by Samuel Beckett and all the emptiness, failed departures, and inability to truly connect in his 1313 films is in fact a statement on the futility of existence rather than merely a series of money and continuity saving techniques… (I realised while watching Allen in the shower why the twinks all wash without soap… it makes it easier for DeCoteau to cut footage together…)?īut enough speculation…. DANCING ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (2021).
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