The Saga Continues...
The Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
By Nevin Jefferson
Creatures from the Pink Lagoon
Starring: Nick Garrison, Lowell Deo, Evan Mosher, Philip D. Clark, Vincent Kovar Billy,
John Kaufmann, Bill Morrison, and Bobby Jerry Lloyd
Directed by Chis Diani
Written by Chris Diani & Basil Harris
Hurray for HOLLYQUEER! Creatures from the Pink Lagoon is the ultimate in Gay films that takes you back in time to the days of the Sunday matinee Black and white horror movies after Sunday school.Seattle provides the backdrop for the campy Creatures from the Pink Lagoon. Creature from the Pink Lagoon opens with a funeral scene that ends with a hand coming up out of the grave. The hand goes limp at the wrist with this being the first of many scenes of Gay humor at its Queerest.
It is 1967 in a small town where cruisers of the highway rest stop are bitten by toxic mosquitoes and turn into ravenous flesh-eating zombies. Phillip (Hedwig, Nick Garrison) is the blonde bubble-head heroine of the movie whose boyfriend leaves him stranded at a rest stop. If this isn't enough, his boyfriend refuses the invitation to Phillip's birthday party. After playing a game of drop the lighter with the person picking it up giving a blowjob. Phillip's boyfriend is bit on the neck by a large toxic mosquito.
Phillip and his friends meet at Stan's, Phillip's best friend (Lowell Deo) beach cottage for birthday cheer and frolic. Billy, Stan's beefcake boyfriend (Vincent Kovar), Joseph, (Evan Mosher) Billy's shy, nerdy, cousin, and Randall, (Philip D. Clarke) the smoking, fussing, bitching, bitter, Queen who's the splitting acting image of the late Paul Lynne.
Like most of the horror movies nothing bad happens until someone has sex. Phillip and Billy go for a swim at the beach with Phillip getting birthday strokes and humps from fine body Billy. Body parts wash up on shore as party guests begin to disappear. Zombies make their way towards the beach house eating their way there as they stop to snack, feast, and chow down on the men along the way. They're horrifying! They're hideous! They're hungry! And they're homosexual?
There's water zombies, surfer zombie, ascot zombie, cake zombie, arm-biting zombie, coatless zombie, well-dressed zombie, smoking zombie, bearded zombie, bald zombie, science teacher zombie, aggressive zombie, and last and Gay-camp least, dildo zombie. Billy becomes a glutless blunder while Randall gets eaten for desert while smoking and bitching away. While under attack the gang hears the news bulletin from a radio announcer who gives the attack of the zombies a full scientific explanation of it being from the toxic lagoon with mosquitoes spreading it around the rest. This leads up to the scene where the victims find something to stop the zombies like in all of the other B horror flicks. This time its Brute 33 to the rescue. Phillip, Joseph, and Stan fight off the zombies with Brute 33 which makes the zombies hurl chunks and foams.
Love blooms between Phillip and Joseph as they combat zombies side-by-side. Stan's does his best to keep the rotting corpses out of his spotless home. Phillip's cheating boyfriend makes his way to the party to eat...not save them. Stan saves the day and changes the hungry zombies back into hungry horny men by playing a Judy Garland song with the radio hoisted high over his head. Once the terror and fighting for their lives are over, Phillip goes back to his no-good dog of a boyfriend. The nerd is left behind fading off into his pencil holder. Stan rides off into the sunset a convertible with Billy's dumb-bells on the seat next to him. The Pink End!
Creatures was filmed in Steward Park and on the beach. Seattle makes a great background for movies shot here. This is the second film at the Seattle Gay Lesbian Film Festival that was filmed in Seattle. Boy Culture and Creatures from the Pink Lagoon gave the film festival a touch of home with the Space Needle being our beacon of Seattle.
