David Decoteau's House of Usher
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May 1, 2008 – here!, America’s premium gay television network, is pleased to announce that it will premiere the David Decoteau film, House of Usher, on Friday, May 9th. The movie is loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic short story, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Victor Reynolds (Michael Cardelle, As the World Turns) receives a desperate letter from his childhood friend and first love, Roderick Usher (Frank Mentier, Days of our Lives). Roderick, a notorious recluse, has not left the grounds of his hilltop mansion in many years. He is in bad health and he needs Victor’s love and care to survive. However, after a series of bizarre and spooky events, Victor realizes that both his friend and the house have a dark past that no one has lived to uncover.
here! hopes to add a chilling and erotic twist on this story through an attractive and talented cast, and a script that is sure to provide titillating suspense. This classic tale of terror seeks to deliver the cinematic chills to all queer fans of the horror genre.
House of Usher will also be playing in selected theaters nationwide.
Comments
Mr. Decoteau, Have just finished watching House of Usher… I hope not all of your movies are as bad, boring and ridiculous like this one, some of which scenes could be used as advertising male underwear in the worst case! Why such an old-fashioned script with badly imitated déja-vu’s? You should learn more from Brian De Palma (whom you even try to copy from time to time, but without success) - it’s all so painful and hilarious. Even pseudo-soft gay TV serials like Dante’s Cove or The Lair have more substance and tension and surely more professional scripts than this poor and cheap attempt to homage E.A.Poe! That the USA and Canada consider your films as “cult”, I cannot believe, it makes shake my head; this considering all real gay cult movies which have been done in the past! The ineffective love scenes of House of Usher are always the same pattern: caressing hands avoid touching the groin in a way everybody must laugh because you feel it in advance, kisses are always shown from the same angles; a bit more naked skin while pulling down a few centimetres of underwear behind is the climax; soon afterwards near the navel the kisser’s mouth retrocedes, as if it would be horrified and wanders upwards again nearer the skin. Your submissive attitude towards censorship becomes like a warning finger in your own personal style as if you would continuously tell the viewer: you see what is prohibited! But there too, with a bit more fantasy and artistry you could avoid such inhibited erotic clichés as well. Adriano, Zurich
Posted by: hadrianus | May 23, 2010 10:36 AM