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Shadow Hours
(2000, USA)
Director: Isaac H. Eaton
Starring: Balthazar Getty ; Peter Weller ; Rebecca Gayheart
Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) has problems. Besides having "BZAAR" tattooed on his knuckles and looking like Charlie Sheen, this former alcoholic/drug addict hates his new job. He's a night clerk at an L.A. gas station frequented by crazies. But the young man has a pregnant wife to support (Rebecca Gayheart), and where else could he work with his record?
Well, there's a change in the air when writer Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller) drives into the gas station one evening and talks Michael into sharing his stories with him to flesh out his novel. Michael agrees, not realizing Stuart just might be a serial killer whose signature is twisting his victims' heads 180 degrees. Or worse: he might be the devil. But all Michael is worried about is that Stuart is gay. "Don't worry," the scribe snickers.
Immediately, Stuart purchases Michael a custom made suit and wins him thousands of dollars by betting on underground fisticuffs, and that's only for starters. Soon he has Michael drinking, drugging, being pawed by prostitutes, and going to venues full of drag queens (and barely dressed go-go boys) and S&M clubs where the lesbians dress up in Nazi uniforms and the men stick fish hooks into their face. Close-up, Mr. DeMille.
The end result is the need for a mental enema to get this crap out of your memory cells. Shocking, tawdry, witless, and just plain nauseating in all aspects, Shadow Hours is destined for many a Ten Worst List, and that in a sense is too much of a reward.
--Brandon Judell
Source : Obtained from
PlanetOut.Com
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