The Dark Stag
Monks who give in to carnal desire, drug traffickers who insist on checking the integrity
of every package and clandestine sex in the workplace form the foundation for Stag Homme
Studios’ latest release. The Dark Stag, directed by Stag Homme co-founder Francesco
D’Macho, explores the dark, dangerous, forbidden back alleys of gay sex.The six vignettes on the DVD are related only by the vaguest of
themes. In the first, Maikel Saravia and Jonas Carvalho take a disagreement outside and
lose themselves in something entirely unrelated to brawling. Aggressive tension boils over
into naked manhandling as each man attempts to subdue the other, with both overcoming
their external homophobia and winning in the end.
Carvalho appears again in “The Deal,” this time as a drug lord who insists one
of his suppliers (Gustavo Bartok) test the white, powdery product by slurping some of the
substance off Carvalho’s crotch. An over-the-top, ostensibly cocaine-fueled oral and
anal cumfest follows.
In “The Last Sin,” Sebastian Cole and Rick Moreno
appear as two Argentine monks whose prayers at an isolated mountain monastery fail to
forestall World War III. With the world crumbling around them, the clerics stop fingering
their rosaries and begin fingering—and doing far more to—each other instead.
“Thug in Public” is the DVD’s token solo
scene, devoted to muscle worship. Hairy Argentine bodybuilder Lucas Gabo strips and pours
beer over himself to cool off before deciding that’s a waste of time and taking
matters into his own hands.
Alan Efron and Gaston Jimenez appear in “From Dusk Til
Dawn.” The minimal story is a take on the tried-and-true “seducing my best
friend” fantasy. When the supposedly straight best friend turns the tables on the
sneaky seducer, it’s game on.
The final scene, “Security Cams” stars Alex Deseo
and Valentin Carrera in what is purportedly covert security footage shot inside a Buenos
Aires paper factory. Hidden cameras capture two employees taking a quick break from their
manual labors in order to explore the desire within. |
