Cisg (1980) Official Trailer #1 - Al Paco Movie HD A police tective go unrver the sleazy and unrground gay subculture of New York Cy to tch a serial killer who is murrg numero gay men wh S&M tactics. Cast: Al Paco, Pl Sorvo, Karen Allen, Barton Heyman, Jam Remar, Mike Starr, Powers Boothe Director: William Friedk
Contents:
- AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980
- CISG (1980): FRIEDK’S BOLD, SLEAZY THRILLER ABOUT GAY S&M SUBCULTURE, STARRG AL PACO
- A RETURN TO CHIGO’S 1980S GAY PARADISE, THE BELMONT ROCKS
AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980
A serial killer btally slays and dismembers several gay men New York’s S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent unrver onto the streets as y for the murrer. * cruising 1980 gay scene *
9/101, 391 RatgsDirected by William Friedk Uned Stat, Wt Germany, 1980Crime, LGBTQ+, Mystery, Drama102SynopsisA serial killer btally slays and dismembers several gay men New York’s S&M and leather districts.
CISG (1980): FRIEDK’S BOLD, SLEAZY THRILLER ABOUT GAY S&M SUBCULTURE, STARRG AL PACO
In 1980 William Friedk and Al Paco ma 'Cisg,' a stylish thriller that tak viewers to the unrground world of gay leather and S&M clubs on the hunt for a serial killer. Gay activists objected to as anti-gay, while straight moralizers thought was praved. It's hardly the kd of movie that you'd expect om the director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connectn,' and the star of the 'Godfather' films. * cruising 1980 gay scene *
SynopsisA serial killer btally slays and dismembers several gay men New York’s S&M and leather districts. In 1980 William Friedk and Al Paco ma Cisg, a stylish but famo thriller that tak viewers to the unrground world of gay leather and S&M clubs on the hunt for a serial killer. Cisg is famo for s dark and gratuo pictn of gay life at the end of the dis era.
The film was protted by moralists who thought the film signaled the end tim, and gay rights activists who thought the film picted homosexualy as nothg more than a llectn of perverts hangg out a leather many misunrstood films of the era, Cisg has attaed a kd of cult stat even if is a b of a ms. My take was that his unrver work had opened homosexual sir him that he hadn't been aware of.
A RETURN TO CHIGO’S 1980S GAY PARADISE, THE BELMONT ROCKS
What do we thk about Crern playg this for pri? Didn't gays do prott march and such when this thg was theaters? * cruising 1980 gay scene *
homosexual sadomasochistic sex he is assigned to filtrate? nightclubs which gay men gather to dance, drk and make pairgs while. and to film as much as possible on lotn, the New York gay muny rose.
“Cisg, ” they said, would prent a distorted view of gay. is, and that, if gays were “to” vlence, attacks on them would somehow be.
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A thriller wh slasher and psychologil elements about the serial killgs of gay men volved the S&M scene. Paco is an unrver police officer wh the task of tchg a serial killer that is targettg gay men the unrground nightlife of New York.
Didn't gays do prott march and such when this thg was theaters?