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A man pursues his sexual obsessions to their darkest and most dangerous extremes in this gay-themed drama based on a novel by Dennis Cooper. Dennis (Michael Gunther) is a gay man, who as a teenager developed a perverse attraction to violent pornography and simulated snuff photographs, which he describes in great detail in a series of letters to his former lover Julian (Jaie Laplante). As Dennis grows older, his fascination with the darker side of the sexual underground grows more intense, and in time he meets Henry (Craig Chester), a masochist who posed for some of the pictures that sparked his interest in S&M. When Dennis learns that Henry was murdered, he weaves the incident into an elaborate fantasy, in which Dennis suffers a painful death in a dungeon of erotic torture. In time, Dennis graduates from violent fantasies to sadistic interludes with a male prostitute (Michael Stock) and eventually plans a series of sexually-oriented murders, concluding with an episode in which Dennis and two collaborators (Parker Posey and James Lyons) drug a young punk (Alexis Arquette) into unconsciousness. After having group sex, Dennis and his cohorts murder the punk. As one might expect, Frisk proved to be highly controversial and received a sharply divided reaction in its screening as the closing night attraction at the 1996 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; some hailed it as a disturbing and iconoclastic masterpiece, while roughly half the audience angrily stormed out of the theater before the film's conclusion.

Cast

Michael Gunther
as Dennis
Craig Chester
as Henry
Jaie Laplante
as Julian
Parker Posey
as Ferguson
Raoul O'Connell
as Kevin
Michael Stock
as Uhrs
James Lyons
as Gypsy Pete
Alyssa Wendt
as Susan
Alexis Arquette
as Punk (Victim No. 3)
Michael Waite
as Gary
Mark Ewert
as Young Dennis/Jan/Young Boy in Park
Eric Sapp
as Sampson
Timothy Innes
as Warren
David Webb
as Married John
Peter Searls
as Finn
Daniel Boyle
as Boy on Train
Michael Now
as Shopkeeper
Eric Dekker
as John (Victim No. 2)
Joan Jett Black
as Silver
Mark Finch
as Newscaster
Todd Verow
as Blond Man in Bathroom
Bonnie Dickenson
as Blond Party Girl
Roberto Friedman
as Bartender
Dustin Schell
as Snuff Photographer
Dennis Cooper
as Man in Hall
Frankie Payne
as Uhrs' Porn Co-Star
Damian Roberts
as Porn Crew Member
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