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The Destroying Angel

BIJOU Gay Classics

62 min. Directed by Peter de Rome
The Destroying Angel

Curator's Note:

This film includes brief moments of consensual breath play, a high-risk BDSM activity. We do not advise anyone to experiment with this dangerous act without education and training.


Description:

"There's only one way to overcome temptation - by giving into it!"

Acclaimed '70s avant-garde erotic filmmaker Peter de Rome and narrative porn masters Hand in Hand Films bring a balanced measure of storyline, emotion, and steamy sex to this classic gay horror/porn hybrid, which is simultaneously artful, campy, and haunting.

Loosely based on a Poe story, the film focuses on Caswell Campbell, a priest in training on sabbatical, torn between the call of the cloth and his pent-up lust. Religious repression leads to internal - and physical - fragmentation as Caswell repeatedly glimpses his sexually ravenous doppelgänger and is drawn into a bizarre underworld of psychedelic supernatural sex, with rough and kinky action and surreal, stylized sex scenes abounding!

Expressive photography and trippy editing from Hand in Hand founders Jack Deveau and Robert Alvarez and excellent music selections enhance the film's atmosphere, and it culminates "in a nerve-shattering climax of frenzied emotion" (Torso Magazine). A one-of-a-kind film that you truly have to see to believe!

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