9 Dead Gay Guys is fast paced - looks and sounds great - and has plenty of intrigue and genuinely funny moments. It's best point is in being totally non-apologetic in basing it's humour firmly on in-house gay and lesbian "lifestyle" scenarios. So there may be plenty of gays and lesbians (without a sense of humour) who will be finding insults galore - and there will also be plenty of straights who miss the point of some of the jokes completely.
I think it's great that a high class product such as this has been made especially for a niche target. Now the big test is whether gay movie-goers give it the support that the film-makers deserve, and whether straight audiences can laugh along with us as we squirm in our seats.
10 stars (screened at Brisbane's Queer Film Festival in April 2003)
I think it's great that a high class product such as this has been made especially for a niche target. Now the big test is whether gay movie-goers give it the support that the film-makers deserve, and whether straight audiences can laugh along with us as we squirm in our seats.
10 stars (screened at Brisbane's Queer Film Festival in April 2003)