When three gay men on a cross-country road trip enter a redneck bar, the culture clash has deadly results.
Into the Lion’s Den (2011)
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Started off well, this movie soon became one of those wannabe’s bad bad thriller gay movies. The story is simple but then its the acting, execution and just about everything else which makes a huge huge difference.
Three friends are on a cross country road trip from LA to NYC. Johnny is the eldest of the group who does not miss any opportunity to hook up with a stranger on the road. Mikey owns the car and is dealing with a breakup. Apparently he just found out that he is positive too. The third friend is just coming out and wants to live life a little bit. When they are few hours away from the city, they decide to spend the night at a motel and Johnny drags all of them to a bar called ‘Lion’s Den’ where he is meeting a trick from internet. Johnny gets into an argument with his friends who leave him and go back to the motel. It turns out the motel owner duo of husband-wife have some other plans. The husband likes men and the wife tortures the guys while the husband is having sex. AFter Johnny is tortured, he tries to run away but the wife kills him. They then call his other 2 friends and kills Mikey as well. The third friend is all who is left and he somehow manages to escape. Thats it!!
The so called ‘thriller’ scenes are so bad , childish and amateurish that I was giggling and laughing at those. I have nothing against independent and low budget cinema but common!! At least make those believable and not amateurish specially considering how much is available today in terms of technology, acting, directing etc. As if OTT Johnny wasn’t enough, the husband-wife duo of Lion’s den were horrible. Only saving grace was a restrained acting by Mikey. He has potential but he really needs a better director.
How I wish I could say that you should support independent cinema. Alas!! not this one.
