Queer theory?


Does anyone know if there's a half-decent queer theory analysis of this film and if so, where I could find it? Because I just saw the movie, and I could really go for that right now. I know it's a fairly modern crappy horror movie, and most film critics don't write papers about crappy horror movies until they're at least 10-15 years old, but I need me some overly-serious, highly academical, completely ridiculous analysis of this movie, and I need it now. Seriously, if there isn't a paper or something out there breaking down the gay themes in this film, I'm going to have to write it myself.

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this is an adaptation of a clive barker short short story. dont know which, check the faq. maybe you can find analysis on that then relate to movie?

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"this is an adaptation of a clive barker short short story."

...And Clive Barker is gay himself, so maybe the original poster is on to something.

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It's from a short of the same name in the first Book of Blood.

To the OP, are you referring to the film or the short story? I'd love to know what made that pop into your head 'cuz I'm not seeing it. I'm totally willing to hear that there's something there. I'm queer but not super well versed on my queer theory, I feel like perhaps I missed something big. My girlfriend and I made some awful jokes when Leon bent Maya over the counter for what appeared to be a very certain kind of sex and then it immediately flashed to train-in-tunnel shots. I know, unrelated. We're terrible people. Totally.

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Not really, but I can name some:

- Leon is a photographer? I guess that might count
- It's a "train", i.e. "running a train", symbol of a tunnel, etc.
- Leon is a vegetarian and then he begins eating meat half way through
- Themes about "meat" through out the whole film, the killer works at a "meat packing" company
- Jurgis having some gay accent with his voice
- When Leon gives his girlfriend the ring at the resturant, it seems like he *beep* her up the ass after, but that's just my opinion

All that I can think of for now

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Don't forget, the sexy photographer becomes obsessed with this particular burly man, follows him around endlessly, takes tons of photos of him and stares at them constantly, and soon, the obsession with the man starts affecting his relations with his wife.

Oh--and sexy muscular Bradley is stripped of his shirt, bound, and tied upside down, but not slaughtered, as are all the others...

--Daniel W. Kelly, author of "Closet Monsters," "Horny Devils," and "Combustion."

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This thread is gay.

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And very ridiculous too.


I'm hoping this is just, "Fail gay troll is fail".

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In all seriousness, Hellraiser/The Hellbound Heart might be closer to what the OP is looking for. Think about it. A gay Horror author writes a story in which a man who is seeking carnal pleasures opens the gates to Hell.

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Yeah, you get started on that paper. Because what the world needs more than anything is a queer deconstructionist analysis of a movie about cannibalistic demons.

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Somehow everyone but me (over a year ago now, damn) in this thread missed that that the original poster is just joking around. He said he needed to see some overly serious and ridiculous analysis so he could have a a laugh. He was not serious at all.

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I don't believe any self respecting straight guy would name himself "lilacblossom" so you must have a personal interest in the "queer theory."

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I have a theory which states that any goal-directed phenomena can be spuriously assigned a sexual connotation, and what that is depends on your particular interest, so that for a straight man this movie is about a violent truth having to do with what the plot depicts, but a gay man might fantasize about homosexual symbolism he easily projects onto the events, because he does that about symbols generally, given the right thresholds and contexts.

And while the film is not aspiring to be blatantly gay, its gay writer must compensate for asymmetricality of libidinal expression in culture by devising sublime references to gayality which, were cultural polarities reversed, would and should normally have been presented as directly as the heterosexually polarized commonplaces of the plot were, and are in most films, art, and commonplace venues of culture and social experience.

So there is this displacement of what otherwise would have been merely backdrop plot data concerning sexuality of characters, their sexual relationships both actual and potential, and other aspects of libidinal atmosphere/economy. But while it is not a romance, it also cannot directly expose queerality as a normative backdrop either. And because this is due to the pervasive asymmetry between standard vs. queer sexuality in culture and society, there is a resulting intensification in the need to sublimate such displaced aesthetics, and hence a symbolic overdetermination of the film's homo-erotic semiological fecundity.

But it seems that while a straight man can intellectually comprehend these things, he is not properly motivated to initiate any direct and detailed consideration of them, and so I must likewise defer to someone with gayer qualifications on the specifics which this meta-critical outline only abstractly suggests.

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lol this thread.

🐺 Boycott movies that involve real animal violence (& their directors) 🐾

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I know this is an old thread, but in lieu of the conversation and to add a bit more humor - would the title of this movie make an almost perfect porno title in itself?

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