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Bruce LaBruce’s “Saint-Narcisse” Asks “Is Mom a Witch or a Lesbian?” “Is Twincest Kosher?” and “Why Does That Monk Have an Arrow Fetish?”

Brandon Judell
5 min readSep 23, 2021

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Warning! Humans should tread carefully into the oft inflammatory cinema of Bruce LaBruce.

To quote myself: “Mr. LaBruce, for the uninitiated, is a man . . . and a highly subversive one at that with a cult following. Yes, for over two decades, this queer underground filmmaker has shocked and entertained with his tongue-in-cheek-and-elsewhere oeuvre.”

His Hustler White (1996) “stars an ex-beau of Madonna’s in an ode to L.A. male prostitution that includes a white, very blond boytoy being consensually gangbanged by a very long line of African American hunks. Think of Trader Joe’s on a Sunday afternoon. Gerontophilia (2013) focuses on a young gent discovering he has the hots for the male geriatric clientele of a nursing home. Then Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) chronicles with a gory finesse the plight of a carnivorous, neo-Goth gay zombie.”

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Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell

Written by Brandon Judell

For half a century, Brandon Judell has covered film, the LGBTQI scene and several other arts. He lectured at The City College of New York for two decades.

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