Two Days in a Hot Place
Two Days in a Hot Place premiered in Manhattan at Chelly Wilson's all-male 8th Avenue theater, the Adonis. It was a perennial replay on New York's gay theater circuit and dubbed by veteran pornographer and full time pervert Toby Ross as "a classic."
An aging hustler (Luke Hanson) drives his El Camino down a scorching highway. He's a butch type who's starting to fade with the years. Types like this, Ken Anger once quipped, are only good up to about age 17. In a panic, apparently Luke got married. Now, at about 33, he's nervous, he's run out on his wife and, as he puts it, his "responsibilities to her." But it really seems he's after a sex vacation. Apart from well selected music and choice sound effects, Luke's narration is all we hear on the soundtrack. Two Days is unique in that it's pantomimed as the star narrates, living these experiences as a dirty paperback novel come to life. The movie analyzes the theme of the faux hetero sofrequently found in homosexual mythology well.
On his way from Needles, California to Los Angeles, Luke is sexually violated by men at every turn. Everywhere he haplessly stops, someone else victimizes him. He runs out of gas on the highway and accepts a ride from a stranger who can only be described as a dangerous top. "He said he'd let me use his outdoor shower." Two Days makes extraordinary use of open air sex. The sequence ends with Luke puking his guts out in that outdoor shower. When he finally gets to L.A., he's too cheap to spend $10 on a motel room and sleeps in someone's toolshed. Suddenly, two sadists bust in on him, hogtie him, rape him with a dildo and come in his terrorized face. The men swap a 16mm camera back and forth to record Luke's degradation. He then heads to the beach and meets up with a fag hag and her gigolo. The gigolo invites Luke to a beach hotel, promising a party with girls. When he gets there, he's slipped a 'lude, smokes a joint to kick it in, and who shows up but several male sadists that handle Luke like a dishrag. Luke muses after his various degradations that "assholes have always said I was stupid. Maybe the assholes were right." See Two Days in Hot Place and judge Luke for yourself.
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