 | MOVIE #1,725 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 06.13.24 This one’s very bad. Hong was like fourth-billed in the opening credits so I had my hopes up that he would at least have a somewhat prominent role, but he’s only in a single scene. I think the billing had something to do with the fact that he was also a producer on the picture, which got me digging into IMDb about Hong the Producer. His first of his scant forays into the production level (7 credits vs. over in the acting department) include the previously reviewed women-in-prison flick, Caged Fury, as well as a teen sex comedy and an actual porno film from the 70s, both of which he also directed! I don’t want to put the cart before the horse because we will be going deeper into Hong’s horny side very soon on this journey. Alls I can say is: STAY TUNED. |
Catherine’s Grove — cue title drops…
—i s bad because it hits that dead area between not being bad enough to be funny and not nearly good enough to enjoy ‘normally’. And when it tries to be humorous, it falls COMPLETELY flat. Like this ‘joke’ about foie gras…
The two leads — Maria Conchita Alonso and Jeff Fahey — have zero chemistry together and play a constantly bickering couple, i.e., a brutal combo. Even the normally reliable Michael Madsen can’t rescue things with what is a shockingly toned down and restrained performance. Dueling plotlines — a string of drag queens getting murdered and the search for a man’s missing sister — come together when it’s revealed that the brother who hired Jeff Fahey as P.I. (but he’s also a real cop too?) is actually cosplaying as his dead sister who died when he was a kid. He’s having an affair (in drag) with Priscilla Barnes who turns out to be the killer for some reason? I am not totally sure: this puppy basically put me to sleep. Anyway, here’s Hong’s one scene…
I guess it’s notable as an entry in the weirdly (proto) anti-trans movement? I’m trying my best.
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Undercover cop Doyle is working on a serial killer case that's left a trail of dead transvestites. He also moonlights as a private eye, so Doyle and his girlfriend are hired by a rich young man to find his sister. The search leads to the missing woman's mysterious uncle, and the danger of becoming the killer's next victim. It was released on September 5, 1997.
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