Exploited (2022)
5/10
A disappointing try at a gay-themed horrorflick
19 January 2024
The dvd promised to be a sensuous gay-themed horror-thriller. Since horror and LGBT is a pretty unique combination, and 99 percent of the regular horror flicks have sexy girls as main characters, and hardly ever an attractive guy, my hopes were high. Unfortunately it turned out as a disappointment.

Cinematographically it wasn't that bad, and maybe the premise (a creepy masked SM-fetishist has video-sex with guys on a college-campus, and in the process begins to stalk and physically attack his followers) had serious potential. But the way the story was written was rather lame and chaotic, with long stretches of hardly anything happening, and then in the end a ludicrous, totally over-the-top and unrealistic final showdown, while the ultimate revelation of the identity of the masked person was pretty obvious from the start.

Another negative point was the acting: while most of the girls were reasonably adequate, all the guys acted like wooden robots, droning their lines. Such a waste of their good looks and of some awesome bodies (especially Jordan Ver Hoeve!). The gay aspects were a bit disappointing anyway: yes, there was lots of sex going on (on the web-cam shots and in reality) but mostly implied and in no way more daring then in any other high school themed horror flick: some making out, some (male) skin, but nothing beyond the regular respectable boundaries.
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