Update: “Pretty Little Liars” Star Joins Gay Porn Murder Flick, Strips Down To Nasty Pigs With James Franco
It’s becoming more and more mainstream for LGBTQ stories to find their way onto the big screen — Milk, critical flub Stonewall, The Imitation Game and the upcoming The Danish Girl just to name a few. These films aim to uplift and inspire, shining a light on the great contributions our community has offered the world.
The recently announced Christian Slater/Molly Ringwald film King Cobra, though it also plans to dramatize a piece of gay history, will likely offer no such inspiration.
That’s because it will tell the story of gay porn studio Cobra Video owner Bryan Kocis’ murder by two of his stars, Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes (pictured above right), in 2007. Naturally, James Franco is involved, taking a producing and acting credit.
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Both killers were sentenced to life in prison, and the gruesome details of the story inspired the book Cobra Killer: Gay Porn Murder.
According to the investigating coroner, Kocis was stabbed 28 times and his throat was cut, nearly decapitating him. His body was left in his house before it was set on fire. Officials had to use dental records to identify Kocis because his body was burned beyond recognition.
Kocis’ involvement and subsequent legal battle with a then-underage Brent Corrigan, aka Sean Lockhart, added an unhealthy dose of scandal to the already-insane story.
And now the whole sordid mess is coming to a theater near you! It’s kind of like Brokeback Mountain with few more twists and turns. Except not at all. It’s all fairly horrifying.
Slater has signed on to play Kocis, and Ringwald has been cast as Kocis’ sister.
She recently Tweeted this photo of the onscreen siblinghood:
New movie brother! @ChristianSlater @JamesFrancoTV #kingcobra pic.twitter.com/yr95Ziu6C3
— Molly Ringwald (@MollyRingwald) October 13, 2015
Playing the part of Corrigan will be Disney Channel star Garrett Clayton, who will bring some twinky fire to the unseemly universe:
h/t: QueerClick (NSFW)
Ted LeBlond
I’ve always DROOLED for Brent!
animaux
This kind of morbid B-movies is going to be the future of the LGBT cinema.
Daniel Salmeron
Who cares lol
Anthony Tubbs
I’m surprised it won’t be Brent corrigan honestly
MarionPaige
Snapped Killer Couples aired an episode last night (Oct 18, 2015) on Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes as the killer couple http://www.bitchless.net/index.php?showtopic=106682
Actors Marco DelVecchio and Jared Allman played Cuadra and Kerekes. The episode can be rented / bought now on youtube and later on amazon.
bicurious
This is fantastic. It is so important that our stories are told.
MarionPaige
Also, when, as a result of this story being in the news again, legally intelligent people hear this claim by Luzerne County Prosecutors that Brent Corrigan was CONTRACTUALLY BOUND to have sex for money for Bryan Kocis and Cobra Video, more people will be calling BS on that.
You can’t contractually bound someone to have sex for money.
There is no legal way that Brent Corrigan could have been contractually bound to only perform sex acts in videos for Cobra Video.
Today,
I’m pretty sure every gay adult performer now knows that porn “agreements” are legally unenforceable
Jared Lee
I met Brent Corrigan at a party once in the Castro, and ever since I heard him start talking. I can’t find him attractive anymore. Just. So. Dumb.
Jim McHardy
He is hot want to see this movie
SeeingAll
What is there about this murder story that merits a film instead of a 1 hour TruCrime documentary ?
sportsguy1983
Will be a quality movie and worth spending $8 on.
Bob LaBlah
@ Jared Lee; I met Stonie during his appearance at a night club in NYC back around 2002. I went home and threw away every VHS tape I had of him. He is now a flaming tran……anyway, the kid was nothing more than a cheap hustler from Louisiana who is now in his mid-thirties, has a bad liver due to hepatitis infection and from what I hear is still looking for people to take care of him. After his transformation he made a video where he actually talked/bragged about an real life event where he did go to jail for stealing a credit card from someone whose only mistake was showing him kindness.
In the case of Corrigan, I read the book The Kobra Killer. This all took place during the era when internet porn was in its infancy (around 2004) and they, internet porn producers, were, according to the author, making tons of money. By the time Cuadra and his lover hooked up with Corrigan they already had over $250k sitting in their bank account. Months were they were got less than $30k were bad months. And thats just from the pornsite. They also were in the escort business, which seems to have done just as well as the porn site. Cuadra and his lover were simply greedy.
I won’t go into how much because no one would believe me but you will not believe what Corrigan sure as hell was being paid to do a scene. It seems almost criminal. I bet to this day no one else has ever been nor will ever be offered that kind of money. Trust me, the title of that book should have been “An Ass Worth Killing For” because his “hole” was what they wanted. They knew he was a little fool and was their for the taking.
Not only do none of the people in that book have a heart but they all seem to have the same agenda, Corrigan’s “back door”, shall we say. Kocis was no saint, trust me. But I don’t think anyone deserves to die like he did. Harlow and his friend are still alive because Pennsylvania does not have the death penalty. However, being convicted of first degree murder in that state does mean LIFE without the possibility of parole. They do mean LIFE. As in you will be carried out for good in a casket accompanied by a hearse.
Alan Meraz
Peter Christian
Erik Jareth Ransom
Fred Ross
Bobby French
I am curious how much nudity will be in the film, especially since the murder plot was hatched while everyone was naked at Blacks Beach.
westsideed
I live in NE Penna., and the murder was all over the local news.
Jaime Enrique Sibauste
Jared Lee for someone you said you met sounded dumb to you, I met Sean and he is very interesting. He has his act together.
tricky ricky
they should have gotten that kid from the suite life who showed is dick on the internet.
MarionPaige
@SeeingAll: “What is there about this murder story that merits a film instead of a 1 hour TruCrime documentary ?”
There is actually a lot about Bryan Kocis and Luzerne County Pennsylvania that deserves probably a two hour documentary. The thing is, “will anyone tell it?”
What you have here are Two Major Scandals in the news that people have been treating as separate scandals when they are in fact one 100+ years long tale of political corruption and organized crime’s influence on a little shit county in Pennsylvania called Luzerne County Pennsylvania. In short,
Bryan Kocis was shooting gay porn in his basement in the same county where two corrupt Judges were selling hundreds of kids into juvenile detention aka Kids For Cash http://www.ecenbarger.com/ . In fact,
The Judge who let Bryan Kocis off with a “corruption of a minor charge” (instead of Kocis going to jail) is the same judge who is now in prison in re The Kids For Cash Scandal
wade.l
Sounds like a good successful movie to me. Another one that depicts gay men as perverse and tragic. Money hungry deviants that murder and end up with life imprisonment. A true reflection of how many straight people see us. Please book me a ticket for the premiere (sic!)
SeeingAll
@MarionPaige: Thanks for the info.
Magnus
Wait, so people rage over Stonewall for disputes over whether or not it was historically accurate to the point of boycotting it, but a film that shows the darkest of gay men is ay-o-kay? Is Queerty going to write articles about how this portrays the gay community in the wrong light, or just stick to the narrative of harping on Stonewall? I swear some of you have your heads up your own butts.
A movie like this causes much more harm to the gay community than a movie like Stonewall ever will. Queerty even takes a swipe at Stonewall in this article, it’s getting pathetic. I swear those of you who wouldn’t shut up about Stonewall must have some sort of mental deficiency.
People are getting dumber by the minute.
Magnus
Queerty is losing more and more credibility by the minute with almost instantly jumping on the bandwagon of criticizing Stonewall, and yet a film that portrays such evil, Queerty remains silent and leaves out personal opinions… Please hire some new writers. I’m not condemning this film in of itself, but pointing out the double standard in many for instantly judging Stonewall while giving this one a pass. Queerty should hire more writers.
SeeingAll
@Magnus: The posters are too dense to pick up the truth of what you say. They just sort of….follow along with Queerty…
Louis
The only one of this cast ive ever heard of saying anything LGBT supportive much less about our rights is Molly.
I think Christian has said negative things about the LGBT community and Clayton has never once said anything about us whether positive or negative.
That is a fatal flaw and so is making yet another movie like this instead of one that’s actually inspirational for our community.
This is yet another depressing and sad movie that the bigots will love to watch seeing someone gay be murdered.
Hollywood really needs to grow up already and progress from these kinds of things this did not have to be made into a movie.
Show respect for the victim instead of tainting their life whether they made mistakes or not.
That’s just how I feel about this .
Start posting more positive articles also instead of wasting time posting positive things about people who have never once said anything remotely supportive about us and our rights as human beings.
Shameful.
Billy Budd
I wont watch this movie. No.
animaux
@Magnus: I totally agree with you.
I will also add that it isn’t a surprise that James Franco is behind this, since he also made that ex-gay movie a while ago, another project which was treated with kid gloves by the LGBT community. Instead we should have been much more critical towards the film that glamorized a vile homophobe.
As I have said, since we reject mainstream empowering LGBT features, morbid movies like this are going to be the best we can hope for in the future.
Masc Pride
@MarionPaige: I actually saw the Snapped episode too. Marco Delvecchio is sooooo much hotter than the real life Harlow Cuadra. I was wondering who he was. Thanks for the info.
Is Brent Corrigan super femmy? They certainly made it seem that way in the episode. I don’t recall ever seeing him “perform” in anything, but I know the name is pretty popular. Seems weird that someone that fem would be so popular when jock/gay-for-pay stars seem to dominate. Was it just bad casting?
Ian Farrell
Jerms McLoughlin
Avery Alvarez
What I want to know is, will people of color and trans women, the true stars, be depicted in this film?
Bob LaBlah
http://www.oxygen.com/killer-couples/season-6/harlow-cuadra-joe-kerekes
Masc Pride
@Magnus: How exactly does this incident between three gay men represent the entire gay community? It seems you think people will think all gay men are escorting murderers after they see this movie. Even if that does happen, guarantee you those are people that felt that way before seeing the movie anyway. Your complaints sound just like the hypersensitive gays that protested the depiction of gay life in “Cruising”, and now that movie is legendary. Lighten up. I’d love to see another gay-themed movie that’s more on the darker side. Break some of the melodramatic gay movie monotony.
Stache99
@Avery Alvarez: What’s even worse it’s another privileged white male in the lead. Fuck! So boycotting this one too.
SeeingAll
@Avery Alvarez: ah ha ha !
Doughosier
Stonewall was a very entertaining film. It didn’t deserve the scorn heaped upon it at all. This is not the sort of story we, as gay people, should be rallying around, in my opinion.
Ogre Magi
@Bob LaBlah: It is hard to believe people would kill somebody just because he was their business competition. I mean , I don’t doubt that that happened….but jeeze
stranded
I remember seeing a documentary about this case . It centered on Cuadra, his life before porn, how enhanced his life and how he fell in love with Kocis. He who swore throughout the movie, he had nothing to do with the murder. And that he was set up by Corrigan and there was a lot of sketchyness around Corrigan’s involvement. I remember 5 years after the conviction. There was a blog that showed the two men’s mug shots. There was the one above, and then there was one 5 years later, where they aged like 15 years. They must really be paying for their crime.
Bob LaBlah
@stranded: ” and then there was one 5 years later, where they aged like 15 years. They must really be paying for their crime.”
Indeed they are paying for what they did.
@Ogre Magi: Check with you local library and see of that book, Kobra Killer, is available. I had to order it from Barnes and Noble but it was well worth the $12 I paid for it. Amazon might have a used copy or two but the book is well worth reading. It really tells about how times have changed in less than ten years after this murder in the porn industry. Harlowe can cry “I was MADE to do it” all he wants but with me, it falls on deaf ears. He knew damn well as he drove up the Wilkes……get the book. It is well worth reading if you are interested in just how stupid a lot of guys who were making tons of cash actually were.
I close with this: there was a commissioned military officer who was a regular trick of Harlow and had no problem openly offering to help him out in any way he could after their arrest. He didnt extend the offer………buy/rent/get it from the library. It is well worth reading.
Louis
@Masc Pride: As usual the only thing men like you are ever capable of is using the tactic of making yourself seem superior and unaffected and those who are are the weak links persay.
Grow up already you don’t benefit the community with your type of attitude….ever.
You do however continue to widen the gap and create even more indifference and devisiveness then there already is with that kind of macho insensitive pitiful attitude though.
Smh.
scotty
brent/sean…. i still adore you. hunnf
glennr
According to all reports, Brent Corrigan was associated with the killers and had planned to make porn with one of them. But to hear Brent Corrigan talk now, he has no knowledge of these times. I feel he has been a liar from day one and is not to be trusted. I also find him unattractive, mind numbing, and a bore. The only thing Brent Corrigan cares about is how to make a dollar.