This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
Even though, in summary, this film is a collection of three short films, unlike previous mentioned, this film is an anthology of sorts which has been directed by a director duo. The movie features three stories of closeted men and how their sexual obsessions lead to violence.
In Our Darkest Moments mixes wry humor and tense drama as it chronicles the sleazy exploits of a hunky, closeted married man who cruises seedy bookstores and sex dens. He begins an affair with a dangerous teenager, unaware of the disastrous effects it will have on his life. In the Darkness Softly, is a love story (of sorts), chronicling a young man’s obsession with a local serial killer. And in the final film, In Deep, the police are trying to catch a murderer who preys on lonely men and then offs them with his extraordinarily large appendage. Maybe this killer is more than he seems.
After first 20 minutes, I really couldn't care much about what's happening in the film. The stories, the acting, the direction is all so poor and this is no excuse given that the film came out in 2009. Clearly the idea was to make a soft porn film with plenty of full frontal penis shots, but even with that the result is bad. Movies like this make you sit through the horror of bad cinema that unfolds in front of you and there is no prize for your effort. I mean, how and why do such movies ever get made, it's beyond my understanding. There is no redeeming for either actors or makers. Outrightly outrageous and ugly film filled with bad actors portraying stereotypical psychopaths. The first film was the only one with some saving grace at least from a story point of view. Stay away from this one please. (1/10)

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