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Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh (1985)

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.

  • Comedy
  • Drama

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Demetri EstdelacropolisDemetri EstdelacropolisDimira / Lucie
  • Photo of Esther VargasEsther VargasMother
  • Photo of Michel GagnonMichel GagnonPsycho / Dentist
  • Photo of George AgetteesGeorge AgetteesFlaky Porno Director
  • Photo of Pierre BastienPierre BastienGay Basher
  • Photo of Christian DufaultChristian DufaultN.Y. boy friend
  • Photo of Lawrence JosephLawrence JosephHollywood Movie Producer
  • Photo of Harry KaragopianHarry KaragopianHarry
  • Photo of W.A. MacGregorW.A. MacGregorCouch Prop
  • Photo of Marjorie MortonMarjorie MortonWoman with Pliers

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