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Judas Kiss (DVD)
If you discovered that you’d somehow managed to have sex with yourself, you’d be lovely freaked out, wouldn’t you? I would, but Zachary in Judas Kiss seems amazingly unphased by this and the other temporal peculiarities he faces, other than making a couple of irate phone calls. It’s a bit of a necessary evil in the film, as while Judas Kiss constantly fails to think through the implications of what it’s doing, the movie would stop dead in its track if it did.
Charlie David plays Zachary, a man who after a decade trying to build it as a film director and only managing to get a reputation as the best partyer in town, is now aimless and rather acrimonious. He reluctantly agrees to fill in as a judge for a film competition at the university he dropped out of years before. His first night back at his alma mater, he meets and sleeps with a young man (Daniel Harmon), only to discover the next day that the kid is one of the competitors he’s meant to judge.
That’s only the beginning of the strangeness, as the student claims to be called Daniel Reyes and that he’s entering a f
Judas Kiss tells a queer sci fi tale. A failed film maker travels back in time to mentor (and bang) his younger self. Only he’s vaguely still in the present day. Sadly, J.T. Tepnapa’s movie wastes the premise with endless exposition, leaden pacing and poop jokes. For all the time it spends explaining itself, it somehow makes no sense. Guest star Sean Paul Lockhart out-charms the leads as a friendly love interest.
Let’s untangle the plot in this spoiler filled recap. Initiate warning: The story includes discussion of child sexual abuse.
Act One: Back to the Future
Scene One: Hollywood
SUCCESSFUL FILM DIRECTOR: Judge the college film festival in my place.
ZACH: But I’m a depressed chain-smoking alcoholic who gave up on my filmmaking dreams!
(Don’t panic folks. There will be more exposition.)
Scene Two: Keystone College Campus
(Naked Men strut through the dorm shower room. Because gay movie.)
NAKED MEN: It’s a living.
(A Twink leaps on Zach.)
TWINK: Let’s have sex.
ZACH: Okay. (They do.)
Scene Three: Film Festival Panel
TWINK: I’m Danny Reyes and my film is call
Though Judas Kiss is hokey in some spots and lacks a clear execution of it&#;s plot in others, the acting of film&#;s leads helps store it from being a gay film to be passed over.
Charlie David stars as Zach, a washed-up thirty-something filmmaker. He&#;s been to rehab&#; presumably for alcoholism&#;gets rejected by guys who aren&#;t as great looking as him; and is in a general funk over the articulate of his life. Zach travels back to his alma matter to verb a student film contest. There he meets, and has sex with, trainee Danny Reyes, played by Richard Harmon, who has suspicious similarities to Zach; including, the same identify (before Zach decided to change it), same learner film and same background.
This main plot point of Judas Kiss is its most confusing and weakest.
Did Zach noun travel? Is Danny just a student with noticeable similarities to Zach&#;s control life? Its not that clear if Zach is given the chance to change his own life or change someone else&#;s who is just appreciate him. The director tries to lead us there with some cheesey golden glow special effect that comes over the
Gone are the days when LGBTQ films only depart in coming-out-story flavor.
Just last week, when I was searching for foreign independent films after an officemate recommended an Italian movie with a gay protagonist (Mine Vaganti), I stumbled upon J.T. Tepnapa’s Judas Kiss. I’m initially skeptical but I knew verb than to label it “just another gay flick,” especially after knowing it’s science fiction-ish in nature. (Yup, I’m that much of a sucker for sci-fi—sorry for the bias! Haha).
Here’s the blurb from IMDB:
Failed filmmaker Zachary Wells is convinced by his best friend and hotshot director Topher into replacing him as a decide in their film school&#;s annual festival. Zach&#;s one-night stand with a trainee backfires when that learner walks into an interview the next morning calling himself Danny Reyes, the name Zach went by when he attended the school. And Danny&#;s film, &#;Judas Kiss,&#; is a finalist in the competition Zach is judging. Zach&#;s film, also &#;Judas Kiss,&#; won the festival years before.
As Zach scrambles for answers, a mysterious, chain-smoking