WARNING!
Distributor | Released | Length |
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Something Weird | 1969 | 65 |
Description source: Derek K.
In the time it was released, this film might have been considered erotica or pornography, but it’s really just a narrative film about a hustler and the sexual action is softcore at best. The majority of nudity seen is the main actor’s buttocks, with a brief two second flash of his cock in a shower scene. All of the sex is simulated or implied. The storyline involves J.C., a hustler who travels around San Francisco picking up one trick after another, both for money and convenience. In flashbacks, we see that he is the product of a home dominated by a smothering, bitter mother and a cynical, abusive father. Along his hustling ways J.C. picks up a man who takes him home and dresses in drag, while J.C. dresses as a sailor abusing the drag damsel in distress. He picks up a few younger, attractive men, one of whom falls in love with him, but J.C. resists the connection. In the end, J.C. connects with a girl named Jean who he rescues from a sleazy sex photographer. J.C. and Jean are later forced by two drag queens at knifepoint to have sex while they film them and promise to sell it. In the end, J.C. promises Jean he’s going to find a legitimate job, but returns to his hustling ways by picking up a leather stud and taking him home to beat him with a belt. Jean returns and catches him in the act, flees the apartment and is killed when she runs in front of a car. The film concludes with J.C. hitchhiking and being picked up by another pair of predatory gay men. This movie is aggressively homophobic, with Jean saying that gays disgust her, J.C. defending them as “funny and sad,” and more than one of J.C.’s gay clients describing themselves as “sad,” “lonely” and/or “pathetic.”