There’s a really gay porno from 1999 called Animus. Unfortunately, the audio for this link and this link doesn’t always match up with the video. If you CAN find a good link to it, definitely check it out, because its hot as hell, and the acting is actually pretty great overall! Some of its not good, but even the actors who aren’t good still put a lot of passion into it, so the bad scenes feel more campy and fun, rather than awkward and stupid like most porn acting.
The basic plot is that there is a home burglar (named The Animus by the news) that’s been terrorizing the city, breaking into the homes of many people to steal their cash and jewels. The thing is, the Animus has some sort of hypnotic voice, and can goad people into doing what he wants. It probably helps that he’s incredibly sexy, and the close-up shots of his mouth as he whispers his commands feel more pornographic than the actual sex. He’s not actually a very good burglar, and he usually gets caught and held at gunpoint by the houseowners once he breaks in. The first time, he gets caught by a straight couple, and after tying up the wife, he hypnotizes the husband into sleeping with him… right in front of the wife. Later on he breaks into a gay couple’s home, and has a threesome with them when they capture him. These scenes are so, so hot! Thomas Lloyd is sexy as fuck as The Animus, and the way his victims are slowly entranced by his repeated commands is amazing. Their eyes will start to glaze over as they slowly lower the gun and inch closer to him, trying so hard to resist, but unable to break the spell he has on them, before finally giving into the carnal lust he has placed in them.
Running parallel to this is the story of gay Detective Joe Dominoe, who is assigned The Animus case, and slowly becomes obsessed with the enigmatic thief over the course of the movie, which culminates, of course, in a climactic sex scene. Joe’s story is a lot more straightforward, but still very arousing. It plays like one of those old detective noirs, except the gay subtext is just text. We see him with a one-night stand before going to work where his boss Captain Jack Simmons assigns him this case and expresses how the city is in a panic over the Animus and that they need to stop him. Joe begins to unravel, always just a step behind the Animus, become obsessed, lusting after the man. He starts to hide evidence from his boss and pursue leads on his own, before finally catching the Animus, in a pretty crazy finale for a porn movie. (There’s also a subplot where the Captain seduces a suspect to get info)
Honestly, this film is the closest I’ll ever get to an explicitly gay film-noir, which is kinda sad, but also kind of amazing. Very few porn movies actually have real, interesting stories in them. This was one of the only ones where I watched it beginning to end (over a few days) because I actually wanted to know how the story would end!
If you want a version of it where the audio is a bit better, try this or this. The problem is, these videos are private, and you’ll have to get a thisvid account and friend one of these guys if you want to see it. Honestly I recommend it. There’s a lot of weird stuff on thisvid, but basically every gay hypno video on the planet is on there if you friend the right people
