The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror

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The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror
Directed by Jaymes Thompson
Ariztical Entertainment
Opens October 24, Cinema Village

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• Mari Marks

The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror delivers on its title, with less subtlety. An opening musical number entitled "Watch Out for the Straights!" sets the tone. (Heterosexual sins: driving sedans, bad hair.) Writer/director Jaymes Thompson aims five incredibly generic gay/lesbian couples (plus one token obese hag) at the titular venue, only to have them picked off by Jesus-crazed freaks. Since slasher movies are famously obsessed with picking off copulating straight teens and minorities, consider this a counterstrike. The big idea here is that mother Helen (Mari Marks) wants to convert a gay man to marry her lesbian daughter Luella (Georgia Jean), redeeming two sins at once. So the crazed, hypocritical, lustful, and ugly woman—and her repressed offspring—get pitted against 10 fine specimens of urbane, all-queer-all-the-time stereotype, whose only real interests are being fabulous and fashionable. You could argue that this is just gay camp taken to its extreme, but then what's with the shrieking drag queen screaming, "Why are all the beautiful people gay?" There's no joking here, only a sincere belief that anyone who isn't a sophisticated urban queer is a mouth-breathing Reagan fanatic panting to give a homosexual beatdown.