2019 Directed by Keola Racela
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Dallas Sonnier Adam Donaghey Chris Cole Laurence Vannicelli Sarah Seulki Oh G. Brandon Hill Matt Black Ewing Luo
This movie fails as a comedy. The comedy part comes across very creepy in a bad way. The movie they find seems like a satanic movie and not a porno but the nature of the main movie seems closer to a porno in a perverted way. As a horror movie it kinda works. I always like the concept of a haunted movie. The quality of the video production is pretty good and the the special effects are pretty good. Gory though gross and many in a sexual nature. This movie would be much better if they didn’t try to make a comedy out of it. It is not for everyone but a lot of horror fans will find some of it redeeming. Check it out but beware!
Eh it’s ok. Modern Reference horror isn’t usually my thing and this movie clearly has a hard on for Evil Dead and Demons but it just felt like a squandered opportunity to me—Nowhere near as edgy, gay, or transgressive as it wanted to be or should have been.
This is a horror/comedy called Porno and it somehow manages to not be much of a horror, not a comedy and definitely not a porno.
How do you fuck up a movie about teenagers fighting a sex demon in a movie theater?!
This movie could not decide if it wanted to be goofy/campy or serious/creepy which resulted in it living somewhere in the middle. Not quite touching either side of the spectrum and all around being a bit uninteresting.
There’s a handful of fun gags and gore but ultimately it just felt inferior to movies that have tiptoed the camp/creepy line and triumphed.
Two disappointed thumbs down.
Disney Executive: So Larry, I hear you're auditioning for High School Musical The Musical: The Series. Do you have any experience?
Larry Sapperstein: Uh... no.
Disney Executive: Really? Cause it says here you were in a movie called...
Larry Sapperstein: Look can we get on with the audition?
Anyways this movie started out slow but quickly turned into an all out gorefest that made Knights of Badassdom look tame, and I fucking loved it. I recommend it.
A bunch of silly christians, including an annoyingly straight edge guy, accidentally let loose a sex demon and then have to avoid temptation or their dick and/or balls explode. I'm not sure exactly how that works, but some nice gore, especially that closeup when one of the guys is trying to, uh, tie everything back together. The only thing I would have preferred a little more creativity in is when the 3 guys end up in the demon's realm. Meh, it was just the same place with no one around, should have been more hell-like. I loved that demon summoning film though, "Is this an art film?", heh.
On paper, PORNO reads like a sleazy little genre gem: a bunch of '90s teen movie theater ushers (who have to choose between watching ENCINO MAN and A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN this weekend) uncover a lost reel of art porn in the walls of their twin cinema. Unfortunately, when these cute little Christians - whose faith is weirdly important to their dorky manager for no good reason - roll that smutty experiment through the projector, it conjures up a murderous succubus demon, who proceeds to seduce and destroy like Frank TJ Mackey. Sounds pretty cool, right? Well, it would be cool, had an imaginative creative team tackled the premise. Instead, what we’re treated to is the 100,000,000th EVIL DEAD rip, which is oddly chaste (minus some "tee hee" titty shots) until the final gore soaked act. Basically, there’s a decent splatter movie to be made out of this madness, but this ain’t it.
" Is this an arthouse film? "
Porno starts out exactly in a tempestuous way that does not betray its explicit namesake, but one that probably got confused as it goes forward unto the "actual stuff". It's, however, not as raunchy nor smutty as you may think but is also considerably more graphic than expected, in bloody violence rather than sexual pursuit.
Director Keola Racela and writers Matt Black and Laurence Vannicelli creates Porno to be of similar gene to 80s midnight horror B-movies, fun with just enough self-awareness to maintain the energy of its silly premise; that's, concerning a group of Christian theater workers who stumbles upon a haunted old movie and accidentally releases a (literally) dick-ripping succubus after…
Is this an arthouse film?
-Todd
They remade The Evil Dead and replaced the cabin with a movie theater. Somehow not as cool as it sounds. Am I the only one who sees it? Do I watch Evil Dead too much?
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Degrees of Separation from Last Movie:
-Porno with Robbie Tann
-Was in Hedgehog with Danny Deferrari
-Was in Three Christs with Bradley Whitford
-Was in Young Guns II with James Coburn
-Was in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
"Das meiste Geld der Produktion floss in die Penis-Prothesen..." - Wenn schon das Eröffnungsplädoyer des Festivalleiters so lobend wie gleichzeitig ermahnend ausfällt, weiß man, was für einen Film man zu erwarten hat.
Und tatsächlich wird sich eine einzige Szene für immer in das Gedächtnis seiner Zuschauer brennen. Zumindest war das Geld gut angelegt.
This little horror comedy is set in 1992, a year when I spent a lot of time in the dark; attending a film program and working part-time on the renovation and restoration of a cinema that had been around since 1930s. A co-worker and friend helped uncover some secret rooms and spaces concealing long abandoned offices and even an old chandelier that had built over during the 1960s when the theatre had its first makeover. Hell, we even found a fancy old tin of unused condoms from 1936 is a desk drawer. We didn't happen upon a sex crazed succubus, but we were definitely led astray by the nightlife and everything it had to show us.
There's something subversive about…
