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CarlosTheDJ said:Do you think the band "HIM" know about this? :lol:
Truly, I sort of half thought they were named after the film...!
CarlosTheDJ said:Do you think the band "HIM" know about this? :lol:
gncxx said:CarlosTheDJ said:Do you think the band "HIM" know about this? :lol:
Truly, I sort of half thought they were named after the film...!
luscaslayer said:Committing a bit of thread necromancy here, but I've managed to uncover a lot more about this film, including SEVERAL different advertisements and contemporary reviews. Looks like we can finally prove it existed.
Check out my blog entry on the subject (includes all the reviews and ads I found): http://obscurityandbeyond.blogspot.com/ ... -1974.html
gncxx said:Fantastic work there. So after all that it was a real movie after all? Now we have to ponder on why it was lost, was it forgotten about or did someone deliberately lose it due to its offensive nature? Mind you, when you see some of the stuff that gets released on DVD, you'd think there would be some profit in its rerelease.
luscaslayer said:Check out my blog entry on the subject (includes all the reviews and ads I found): http://obscurityandbeyond.blogspot.com/ ... -1974.html
Twin_Star said:i second gncxx: that's the best bit of armchair-sleuthing ive seen for many a long season. As an aside, i liked the whole article; well written, funny and informative. it should go into the FT proper at some stage - a fortean fillum / oscar edition if they pull their finger out
A film portraying Jesus and his disciples as gay men has caused ripples of anger and complaints to the film classification board - even though it does not exist.
The British Board of Film Classification's (BBFC) senior examiner Craig Lapper said there was a "constant issue" with rumours that a movie version had been made of a controversial play called Corpus Christi.
The play, by Terrence McNally, is set in modern-day America and deals with issues including gay marriage but has never been made into a film.
Lapper said: "I think it was a bit of an internet hoax several years ago suggesting a film was being made of the play in which Jesus and his disciples were portrayed as homosexuals, and I can remember replying to people concerned about this blasphemous film back in the late 1990s.
And this year again, for whatever reason, there was another spike in people writing to us to insist that we ban this terrible blasphemous film. We just had to write back and say, 'This film doesn't exist'."
The BBFC received six complaints about it in 2011 and another two queries this year, with complainants often asking them to ban the film on the grounds it is blasphemous and offensive...
A hoax email has been doing the rounds for years which also refers to the mystery film. The email urges protests against the non-existant film.
Him is a 1974 American pornographic feature film produced for gay audiences. It was directed by "Ed D. Louie" (thought to be a pseudonym) and featured homosexual mural artist Gustav Von Will (also known as "Tava") in the role of Jesus.[citation needed]
Background
The film focused on a young gay man who developed an erotic fixation with the life of Jesus Christ. The film initially premiered on 27 March 1974 at the 55th Street Playhouse at 154 West Fifth Street in New York City.[1] This run lasted until 23 May 1974. It returned to the Playhouse on 6 December 1974,[2] and January 1976.[3] The film also played at the Bijou Theatre in Chicago,[4] David Theatre in New York,[5] and the Penthouse II Theatre in Pittsburgh.[6]
The film was virtually unknown until 1979, when it was cited in the book The Golden Turkey Awards, where it was listed as the "Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography".[7]
Lost film
As of 2018, no copy of Him has been located. It was cited among the most sought-after lost films by the online magazine Film Threat.[8]
Many Internet sites have attempted to debunk Him as a hoax, owing to authors Harry and Michael Medveds' admission (within the book) that one of the films referenced in the pages of The Golden Turkey Awards was fabricated.[9] The real hoax, however, was Dog of Norway, a fictitious movie illustrated with a photograph of the Medveds' pet dog.[10]
Reviews of Him from Screw magazine, Variety, and The Village Voice have also been uncovered,[10][11] along with a number of newspaper advertisements for its New York theatrical run.[10][12]
No, don't be daft. He is bisexual.If Jesus was gay, and he was the Son of God, and God created Mankind in his own image, does that imply God is gay ?
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You try explaining Judas's kiss to a class of 9th Year oiks! :wear:
Double U: now that you've tracked down HIM, do you have any other holy grail "lost/maybe didn't even exist" films you are still looking to find?
And does HIM hold up, or is it a below-average example of the genre?