DREAMANIAC
Wizard/Full Moon
1986 Color
82 Mins.
Horror
Thomas Bern, Ashlyn Gere, Bob Pelham, Brad Laughlin, Lauren Petersen and Sylvia Summers star.
Written by Helen Robinson
Directed by David DeCoteau
Sure to give Nightmare on elm st. 2 a run for it's money as the gayest horror movie of all time. The rarely seen Dreamaniac which features a poster that inspires you to think that it's going to be a female Freddy Krueger ripoff is in fact a softcore t&a horror flick at first glance. But when you stop even for a moment to think about it the homoerotic subtext is so abundant it becomes increasingly clear that the only exploitation going on here is of the male actors. The film centers on a young man who performs a ritual and ends up unleashing a succubus at a sorority party. The film begins with a nude young man walking slowly through a dimly lit hallway until finally coming upon a naked young woman taking a blood shower. It's of course a dream sequence as the effeminate Adam awakes horribly startled. His girlfriend (lol) soon arrives and tells him of the evenings plans. A sorority party if you can call it that with minimal paper decorations, a few bottles of liquor and like 7 people in which the boys out number the girls. The succubus makes her appearance and what follows is some of the most tragic, unintentionally funny sequences ever captured on film. Some examples include death by power cord while an white underwear clad young man slowly dances and touches himself, a young man that is stabbed while drinking out of a punch bowl in daisy dukes and touched up with some whipped cream and another guy killed while the succubus is giving him a blow job in a strange porn like angle. The guys are scantily clad throughout the movie while the girls remain mostly covered. It doesn't really matter what the film culminates to because it's a big hot mess. Although the main character Adam does like to slowly touch his chest and stomach and there's a scene where a girl who discovers her boyfriend cheating and throws up on the girl. Camp Gold. The film was of course directed by David Decoteau whose responsible for homoerotic treasures like the brotherhood series, leeches and Voodoo Academy as well as some straight up hardcore gay porn films like New Wave Hustlers, Make it Huge, Totally Awesome, Fleshtone and Never Big enough. Dreamaniac's story line is messy and incoherent for the most part and the gore is cheap and silly. Full moon's transfer of this lost film is expectedly foggy with quick cuts and a messy soundtrack. So if your looking for a trashy, terrible film that only works because it doesn't work at all and features lots of scantily clad young men trying to be sexual while getting doused in fake blood than Dreamaniac stands way above the pack.A hidden, campy piece of cinematic coal from yesteryear. ***/5
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