"Rocky Horror Picture Show" meets "
Writer/Director: Jeff B. Harmon
Stars: Alex Boling, Diana Burbano, Michael Dotson.
Gail Conrad ... choreographer
Watched on AmazonPrime.
No songs listed in the Soundtracks, but plenty onscreen.
Lit as though filmed for TV or old Technicolor film stock, with lots of highly saturated colors, this is pleasant to look at - sometimes. The performers (perhaps some dubbed voices) can sing, and some posing passes for dancing.
But I don't get it. Although the dialog & lyrics seem to promote lesbianism, the pitch emphasizes all the ugly stereotypes and some of the images are so ugly, looking away is warranted. (Ex: Is that mud in which they're wrestling, or fecal matter? The imagery definitely suggests #2.)
This feels like it might be a stage play. I'm not going to clutter my search history to research that.
Although the songs have "catchy" tunes (meaning the lyrics are repeated often enough that you can sing along fairly quickly), I don't actually remember any by now.
Plot: girl runs from the altar without answering the promissory question, locks herself in a room that's decorated for an immature girl, and removes a revolver from the vanity drawer. She aims the gun into her mouth, the groom and her parents break into the room, we hear a gunshot, the screen is bathed in red, and we land on the Isle of Lesbos. The occupants testify about their own deaths planting them there. But later the dialog claims she went through the mirror like some old relative did.
On the island is only women except for 1 flamboyant gay man, who's there as janitor (lesbians don't scrub toilets), and as nemesis to the "queen" of the island (the big one in the poster, who looks better in her biker outfit). And they keep singing about how great it is to lesbian, without really saying why.
Back home, the bride's parents are wondering when/if they'll hear from her. The groom sends her a telegram demanding she return home. She replies that she will not and he should forget her. The gay janitor delivers that telegram, disappearing before the groom wakes, but also leaving behind his lipstick print on the groom's mouth, and an 8x10 autographed glossy. The groom gets so furious at the bride's response that he dresses up in Rambo gear and wishes himself through the mirror.
On Lesbos, an alien of some sort lands inside what should have been a nuclear missile launched by the bride's father (having a missile silo on the farm pays better than growing sorghum), and sings about something. The groom falls in love with the janitor. The bride pledges her personal allegiance to the queen, and back home her parents have a night of S&M (unrelated to anything else in the plot, just to invoke RHPS?)
The "real" world setting is Bumf*ck Arkansas, a name used extensively in the script, and an entire song is dedicated to explaining how straight-laced the town is. Several mentions/references are made to Bill & Hillary Clinton, who are in the White House when this was made/released.
The bottom line: Danger Will Robinson! Avoid, avoid.
Rated .5.6 (103).
indie, dir. Harmon; 5
