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Finally, the third movie Friday night, my 13th, was El Paso Wrecking Corp. This is a vintage 1977 gay porn flick. The festival program describes it in terms of "pioneering positive images", relatively long shooting schedules and actually having a story with realistic men rather than hairless twinkies, but when it comes down to it, it was a porn flick.
The original negatives were apparently destroyed, so this video master from theatrical originals leaves a lot to be desired in quality, but other than that, it wasn't too bad (if you like hairy hunks --- if all you like is hairless twinks, then this is not the movie for you). This is the movie that should have had the title "1000 Cumshots", but many of them were shot in slow motion, which actually made them interesting artistically. I also liked the images of a number of buildings being torn down during the final orgy scene.
The director was in attendance and introduced the movie, but after three movies, it was quite late and I didn't stay for any Q&A. I couldn't really think of much to ask about a 25 year old movie anyhow. Discounting the quality of the presentation due to available media, and relative to other movies in this category, I have to give it a 7.
Posted by abatie at October 18, 2003 02:41 AM