Product Description

A gay sex website and an outspoken artist are tied to string of murders in Washington D.C.'s gay community.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 14-NOV-2006
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95911 in DVD
• Brand: WOLFE VIDEO
• Released on: 2006-11-14
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

Features

• To capture a killer who uses the Internet to find his victims, a gay cop goes undercover. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 754703762672 UPC: 754703762672 Manufacturer No: WOL4282D

Customer Reviews

Original, realistic and entertaining thriller has good and bad points.
Manny is a young artist, still reeling from a relationship that didn't work out, deciding to concentrate on his paintings and limit his social life to his small circle of other gay friends, plus nightly visits to a popular "Open Cam" (2005) website. One problem: the guys he hooks up with online later turn up dead, which puts Manny at the center of the investigation conducted by Hamilton, assigned by the police to work on gay cases. As the number of the serial killer's victims climb, the detective moves in as "live bait" into Manny's apartment with him, hoping to draw the attention of the killer as well as protect Manny. They play their role so well that they actually become lovers for a time, allowing Hamilton to gauge the reaction of Manny's exes and friends, one of whom may be the killer.

The film features an attractive (although inexperienced, and it shows) cast playing non-stereotypical and believeable gay characters, within an original story that gets points for being mostly realistic. Amir Darvish is especially effective as the no-nonsense, sarcastic gay detective, Hamilton. This unrated low-budget indie film would have drawn a NC-17 for nudity and explicit sexual content, but the sexual situations are all reasonable in the context of the story, rather than being gratuitous. Direction definitely could have been better at times, and the background music occasionally drowns out the dialogue. DVD extras include deleted and edited scenes and the trailer. I give it 3 stars out of 5.

Fun gay thriller.
I really don't understand the negative reviews of this movie. While it's hardly perfect, it's a fun, interesting, gay thriller. The acting ranges from decent to excellent and even the weakest is in no way as bad as others suggest. There are no real plot surprises, but the writing is solid, and I've seen many much worse mainstream thrillers. Characters do occasionally defy logic-- but that's not unusual in any movie. It's not a gay classic like Latter Days or Parting Glances, but it's definitely worth your time. Plus the actors are all good eye candy.

More Daring than Entertaining
This was an interesting rental. The film covers a crime spree in the gay community of Washington DC. Andreau Thomas in his first film plays Manny. Manny is an artist who has many friends. His fascination with an open cam website where men feel free to drop their drawers leads to his witnessing a brutal crime on camera. The gore with severed privates was painful to watch, even when removed by putting it on a small TV screen within the film. Amir Darvish plays the cop Hamilton who has been assigned to the case. Like all the rest of the men in the film, he develops an attachment to the handsome Manny. Hamilton is divorcing his wife and coming to terms with his preferences. Ben Green plays Maurice as Manny's best friend who from time to time is more than a friend. J. Matthew Miller plays the computer geek Conrad that installs software that tracks the email connections on the open cam site and eventually leads to the final climactic scene. While I couldn't catch his name, the guy who plays the wimpy upstairs neighbor does a good job. Director Robert Gaston will play Bartender Bob in his next film, "Two Minutes Later." This movie has low production qualities, somewhat interesting dialogue, and a lot of actors who do not appear to have much theatrical training. It's a "B" movie where its daring is more significant than the expertise with which it handles the material.