![]() ![]() Their first killing is thus an accident, but Nathan and Andy quickly realize that they actually liked it better that way. Andy asphyxiates and dies, and the boys must swiftly improvise some way to dispose of the body. Justin doses Andy with halithane (apparently it’s like chloroform, only twice as strong) to forestall the ugliness that is sure to result when their “guest” awakens to find Nathan’s cock in his ass, but he overdoes it a little. Even more unfortunately for Andy, he starts coming out from under the drugs right around the time that Nathan thinks to wonder why the electric toothbrush should be having all the fun. By the time the evening is through, he’s going to have every firm, cylindrical object in the apartment crammed sequentially up his butt, whether he likes it or not. Andy finally gets the hint just as he begins feeling the effects of the sedatives in his beer. A few days later, they invite Andy over to their place for a few beers, and once he’s good and loaded, they start asking him whether he’s ever had sex with another guy, whether he’s ever wanted to have sex with another guy, or whether he’s ever considered the possibility of wanting to have sex with another guy. Justin, opining as usual that Nathan is so awesome, agrees to procure the necessary chemicals from the clinic where he works. Nathan thinks it would be a hoot and a holler to get Andy drunk, drug him, and then rape him repeatedly while he’s unconscious. Their first victim is Andy Morgan (Jared DiCroce), the brown-nosing know-it-all from their English class. Bored out of their skulls with the routine of their lives, the boys decide that the time has come to bring some of their twisted fantasies out into the real world. Justin, meanwhile, pretty much just listens raptly to Nathan’s constant ranting and says, “You’re so awesome!” a lot. He obsessively reads true-crime books, collects newspaper clippings about serial killers, and keeps his deck of “famous murderer” playing cards always close at hand. Nathan can attain arousal only while thinking about particularly violent movies or uncommonly vicious crimes. ![]() But whatever terminology you favor, I believe we can all agree that they’re a couple of sick fucks. The torturers here are Nathan (Derrick Wolfe) and Justin (Michael Burke), a pair of “gay sex buddies” who attend Shoreline Connecticut State University in New Haven, on the other side of town from a much more prestigious institution coyly identified here as “Ivy University.” Nathan and Justin are also roommates, leaving me somewhat at a loss to discern what the difference between “gay sex buddies” and “boyfriends” might be. Slaughter, and while it does at least exhibit a certain degree of technical craftsmanship, it nevertheless falls squarely into the realm of “don’t quit your day job.” Skull & Bones is the first feature-length movie from New Yorker T. As it turns out, though, my introduction to the genre comes not via any of those much-discussed films, but through this ostensibly satiric, micro-budget, queer class-war revenge fantasy, which might not even have been officially released yet. Here I had been thinking that I really ought to weigh in on this “torture porn” business that so many grown-up horror fans have been grumbling over lately- you know, check out Hostel, Saw, Cabin Fever, whatever else Eli Roth might have done recently to piss people off. ![]()
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