Being yourself is no easy feat, even for gay vampires in this week’s home entertainment line-up!
An ordinary Joe comes out to his three best friends and shakes things up in 4th Man Out, while sixteen gay men share their deep secrets, identities, and struggles in anthology film Confessions. Finally, a pair of immortal vampire lovers try to find each other again in Vampires: Lucas Rising (above).
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4th Man Out
($29.95 Blu-ray, 24.95 DVD; FilmRise)
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A quartet of upstate New York blue collar friends, Chris, Ortu, Nick, and Adam, find their bond shaken up when the latter comes out of the closet during a boozy birthday. What are straight bros to do when they realize their sports-loving, beer-chugging, girl ogling pal is playing for the other team? Eventually, with help from Chris’ newest squeeze, they decide to assist him in all things queer… It’s a coming out dramedy, a rare bird in this post-Looking entertainment world!
($24.99 DVD; TLA)
What goes on in the minds of gay men? Writer/director Mark Bessenger lets sixteen protagonists share their secrets, songs, and sordid desires in this compilation of as many vignettes that vary wildly in genre and style. Heck, there’s a puppet too, while familiar faces – including Peter Stickles of The Lair and Dylan Vox – appear. A very different watch for sure!
($24.99 DVD; Ariztical)
A sequel to 2011’s Vampires: Brighter in Darkness, produced during the height of both Twilight and True Blood mania, sees homo vampires Lucas Delmore and Toby Brighter struggle to reunite after the latter had been snatched away. Can Lucas locate and save Toby, while at the same time thwart the diabolical plans of Queen Mother of Vampires, Lilith? Sure to satisfy your thirst after True Blood left the airwaves… and with a whole lotta gay to boot!
ALSO OUT:
Sing Street
The Boss
Hardcore Henry
Criminal
Elvis & Nixon
Ron Jackson
4th Man Out is a gem. It has become one of my favorites. Certainly worth the space on the DVD shelf.
Josh447
The trailer makes 4th Man Out look promising. The
vampire trailer looks high school amateur at best, will pass. Confessions, didn’t seem original or fresh, but may surprise.
And I’m covering movie trailers on a Sat night. Time for a make over.
ProfessorMoriarty
4th Man Out was on Netlfix earlier this year and is definitely a worthy addition to the queer library.
Dave Downunder
4th Man Out looks promising. The others are all a hard NO.
omacdonald
4th Man Out is 5/5 stars! Saw it on Netflix – the gay protagonist is adorable, sweet, and a serious BF material guy. My fav was the sausage scene (hope I’m not spoiling). His straight BFF is kind of hot eye candy and the two other straight bros were a bit ignorant but really tried to be understanding. One friend is reminds of Jack Black. Nice comedy Rom-com type movie.
With the vampire trailer, kind of cringing at the kitsch. Lots of right wing folks still think one can become homosexual by corruption just like vampirism. Just like one can become a vampire by getting bitten, one can catch “The Gay” by getting sucked. LOL so I shudder a little at gay vampires hissing at each other. But if that’s your bag and like the visuals and costumes (or lack of) then I guess this might be fun for you. It does look a bit like a college project movie.
Paco
The vampire trailer was hilarious. Over two minutes of them hissing at each other and the expected mattress shot. I’m going to guess the acting is terrible and the dialogue was an added inconvenient time filler around the featured mattress shot. People actually watch this stuff?
DDstar1me
4th man out was surprisingly well done. Everything else is for the BIRDS!!!!!