Porno (film)

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Porno
Directed byKeola Racela
Written byLaurence Vannicelli
Matt Black
Produced bySarah Oh
Chris Cole
Starring
CinematographyJohn Wakayama Carey
Music by Carla Patullo [1]
Production
companies
Fangoria
Evoke
Distributed by Shudder
Release dates
  • March 21, 2019 (2019-03-21)(SXSW)
  • May 8, 2020 (2020-05-08)(United States)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Porno is a 2019 American comedy horror film directed by Keola Racela and starring Katelyn Pearce, Jillian Mueller, Larry Saperstein, Glenn Stott, Evan Daves, and Robbie Tann. [2] [3] The film premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, [4] and released to virtual theaters, due to Covid-19, via Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and other theaters on April 10, 2020, and release to VOD on May 8, 2020. [5] It is a Fangoria Presents production.

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Plot

Set in the early 1990s, five teen employees of a small town movie theater find a mysterious film reel and decide to play it after the theater closes. Watching the vintage X-rated film unleashes a succubus, who tries to seduce each of the five teens as they attempt to escape the theater intact.

The day starts off with two of the teens, Abe and Todd, outside of a house in the suburbs as they peep through a window, watching a couple have sex inside. Todd wants to leave and tells Abe they will get in trouble, so the two of them hop on their bikes and ride down the sidewalk to the theater where they work. Inside the theater, they and their fellow employees stand around in a prayer circle led by their boss, Mr. Pike, who tells them they can have a movie night after they close and clean the theater. As the teens fight over which movie to watch, A League of Their Own or Encino Man , they hear a noise inside the theater. A crazy old man is running around by the screen. They attempt to get him to leave, but he runs through a boarded up opening in the lobby. As the teens peer inside, they see that it leads to a basement.

The five of them decide to go down together to get the man out instead of calling Mr. Pike. Once down there, they find a room filled with old tin cans of film reels. Abe brings one of the reels upstairs, and they all vote to watch it for movie night, except for Jeff the projectionist, who worries that it might break the projector because it is so old. He is out-voted though, and they start playing the film, which is a weird pornographic film that unleashes a succubus named Lilith.

Cast

Reception

The film has a 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 52 critic reviews. The site's consensus reads, "Porno mines sexual repression to produce a laughably lurid - and genuinely scary - outing that should delight genre fans in search of a good time." [6] Jude Dry of Indiewire gave it a B+. [7] Chris Salce of Film Threat gave it 8 out of 10. [8] Trace Thurman of Bloody Disgusting gave it two-and-a-half skulls. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Colburn, Randall (September 9, 2020). "Fangoria's Porno delivers the shivers in this exclusive clip from its spine-tingling score". The A.V. Club . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ Harvey, Dennis (2019-03-10). "'Porno': Film Review". Variety . Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  3. ↑ Schager, Nick (2019-03-09). "'Porno': The Gross-Out SXSW Movie Exposing Sexual Hypocrisy". The Daily Beast . Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Porno". SXSW 2020 Schedule. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  5. ↑ Henderson, Odie. "Porno movie review & film summary (2020) | Roger Ebert". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  6. ↑ "Porno (2019)", Rotten Tomatoes , Fandango , retrieved October 30, 2021
  7. ↑ Dry, Jude (2019-03-13). "'Porno' Review: Religious Teens Battle a Sex Demon in Gutsy Horror Comedy Debut". IndieWire . Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Porno | Film Threat". Film Threat . 2019-03-10. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  9. ↑ Thurman, Trace (2019-03-12). "[SXSW Review] 'Porno' is a Flaccid Attempt at Fun". Bloody Disgusting . Retrieved 2020-10-09.


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