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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Fangoria
- 1 h 38 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Fangoria
- 1 h 38 m
Summary When five teen employees at the local movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in the basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education... written in blood.
Directed By: Keola Racela
Written By: Matt Black, Laurence Vannicelli
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Fangoria
- 1 h 38 m
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Fangoria
- 1 h 38 m
Porno
49
3.4
Summary When five teen employees at the local movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in the basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education... written in blood.
Directed By: Keola Racela
Written By: Matt Black, Laurence Vannicelli
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
49
38% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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This gory teen comedy blends laughably outrageous carnage with a legitimately scary plot to delightful ends. Throw in a winking fetish for cinephile culture and audiences are sure to go wild for the gutsy film.
It’s not for the easily offended or for the squeamish. Porno finds a way to make the disgusting laughable, and I feel that it’s meant to be a fun and slightly cheesy film.
Porno belongs in the “hot and murderous butt nekkid lady” sub-genre of horror alongside “Species,” “Lifeforce,” and the film it shares its villain with, “Def by Temptation.” Like that 1990 Troma movie, this horror-comedy details the exploits of a succubus, a female demon who tempts men to their own destruction via the deadly sin known as lust.
[The film] is really little more than a collage of gag-worthy and violent attempts at comedy.
Unfortunately, Porno gets more uneven as it goes on, with a somewhat slack midsection and a mix of earnestness, broad comedy, titillation, and moralizing that neither fully gels, nor makes something unpredictably wild out of those clashing elements.
There's a lot in common here with "Sequence Break," Graham Skipper's shameless love letter to David Cronenberg's Videodrome - but that has so much more heart, and such better source material on which to riff. Instead, Porno is kind of a schlocky homage to Lamberto Bava's "Demons," the ultimate and original story of a bunch of schmoes locked in a cinema with a malevolent print.
Even if the sophomoric Porno doesn't make the grade, it represents a promising start for the talented filmmaker.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
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Awards
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
