Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Creatures From the Pink Lagoon

Director(s): Chris Diani
Writer(s): Chris Diani, Basil Harris
Producer(s): Chris Diani, Lisa Anne Glomb, Peter Torr
Starring: Lowell Deo, Evan Mosher, Nick Garrison

When a group of gay men get together at a buddy's house in Pink Lagoon, they find themselves amidst an epidemic that is turning all the gay men cruising a local rest stop into zombies. Their weekend of casual sex and catty comments is cut short when a particularly pesky pack of queer zombies attack their lagoon-side celebration. As the group slowly lowers in number, true feelings are exposed and two friends find love.

It was campy, it was kitsch and definitely amusing for the brief 1 hour and 11 minutes of the film's duration. Sure it wasn't as insightful as The Others or The Sixth Sense, or definitely not as thrilling as Scream or I Know What You Did Last Summer, but it was amusing nonetheless. The annoying aspects of the film became funny after establishing a routine of repetition. What I think is probably the best part of the film is the friendship the characters have. It may be that my birthday is approaching, on which I try to surround myself with my friends as much as possible. As I get older, I envision having those rare get togethers with my friends where we not only catch up but we resume things as if time and distance never affected us.

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