Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh

Overview

Inspired by the early trash films of John Waters, the film stars Estdelacropolis as Demira, a gay porn actor struggling with both his emotionally complicated relationship with his mother Esther and his desire to break out of porn and into mainstream movies. He connects with a Freudian psychiatrist who is convinced that his homosexuality stems from an unresolved Oedipus complex which he has repressed by denying his natural attractions to women, to which the psychiatrist's proposed solution is to hypnotize Esther into believing that she is a man so that men will become the gender that sexually repulses Demira; in his career, he is ambivalent when the first "mainstream" role he is able to land is a gore film in which he will play the victim of a cannibal family for which Esther has also been cast as the mother.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1985

Original language

English

Countries

Canada

Production

Canada Council for the Arts,ONF,NFB

Cast

Rick Trembles,Harry Karagopian,Claire Nadon,Marjorie Morton,E.J. Sullivan,Demetri Estdelacropolis,Pierre Bastien,Christian Dufault,W.A. MacGregor,Michel Gagnonand 4 more

Director

Demetri Estdelacropolis

Writer

Demetri Estdelacropolis

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0087748