October Moon

This movie started out slow and it seemed like it was going to be another stupid low budget movie. But it got better and better until my friend and I were clutching pillows from the suspense.

I liked Sean Michael Lambrecht best as an actor in this movie. He played his character with a surprising amount of depth, and became eminently likable because of it. He's cute to look at, and he endears himself to you.

Yes, there was lots that could have been better. But the characters grow on you, the acting gets better as it goes on, and you end up on the edge of your seat.

The ending stayed with me for days, and I have been analyzing everything the characters did and didn't do. Rare that this happens to me with a movie, so say what you will about the budget, but this was a surprisingly fun movie to watch.

Here's Fatal Attraction for the gay set with a few additional twists. The basic premise holds some definite potential but it's soon stamped out by severe reality-killing amateur acting (Sean Michael Lambrecht and Jeff Dylan Graham being the worst offenders there) and mediocre writing, and ends up basically coming off like a rushed production job. The character of Elliot is potentially interesting but he's not fleshed out to the point where his sexual transition or obsession is at all convincing.

Shot on video with the lowest production values you're likely to stumble across (I stumbled across them on Netflix), best I can say here is that the filmmakers tried but failed to come up with something a little different, though it's nice seeing Judith O'Dea again after such a long absence from films. Other than that, this offers very little of value and is instantly forgettable. I will not discount the director's future endeavors on behalf of this weak effort but will just advise him to sharpen up on his writing and hire better actors next time. It's also fishy that there are currently five glowing reviews for this film on IMDb. Even more fishy is that four of them were submitted in the same day!

This is the worst piece of garbage I've ever seen. The acting by the two main guys isn't bad but the guy playing the crazy straight guy who becomes obsessed is over-the-top and cringe-inducing to behold. And as an extra layer of smelly crap within crap, the scene where the gay guys teach the straight guys how to have fun is offensive to gays everywhere. Way to reinforce stereotypes. Was this movie made by the Republican party? If you were a gay filmmaker, why would you put in a scene to show that straights are "squares" and need to be taught how to have a good time? AND that said time would be a (warning! shocking twist ahead!)...a DANCE PAR-TAY!

I did like the scene where the janitor in the background sneaks a swig from his mop bucket, that's the only reason I'm giving this mop-bucket-of-a-film one star instead of none? Haven't seen the sequel, maybe next time I want to botch a date I'll put it on as she goes running for the hills. Or maybe I'll just stick with the original to do the job.

Giving it was a terribly low budget, I like the storyline I didn't mind the actors at least it wasn't one of those soft porn gay movies that all gay movies are usually about yuck, but all in all I enjoyed it good job guys

This was one of the worst films I have ever seen. And I'm 54. There was a point in the 1970s that I saw over 500 films in one year. I've seen thousands I'm sure. But, this. Wow. There is dialog so pretentious, so unbelievable within the first ten minutes that we found ourselves thinking, "Well, maybe it will be a cult film, or campy" but the whole thing became so overbearingly amateurish we had to give up. The dialog was so lame and awful...the pacing (well there wasn't any) so bad, it became uncomfortable to watch. It became very obvious this was a group of people who got together and raised enough money for this vanity production thinking that 1)filmmaking was easy; 2)acting was easier; 3) writing and direction was simple. Even ad-libbing is difficult. There is nothing here. I rented this on Pay-per-view cable (PPV) and actually went to the trouble to ask them to give me a credit for the $4 today. My advice: Don't watch for more than 5 minutes or you'll have to pay. As a person who has written some small doc films and worked in editing, etc throughout the years, I understand the creative process. I give a lot of leeway toward a film. In my life, I have probably walked out of two films in theaters in my entire life. If I had seen this in the theater, it would be on that list.