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Welcome to One More Timethe column where writers revisit and review the movies they walked out of in theaters. I am too cheap to walk out of a film I sat through the entirety of mother! On my first try, I made it 40 minutes into King Cobrathe James Franco-tinged true crime thriller about famously once-underage porn star Brent Corrigan and the murder of Cobra Video porn producer Bryan Kocis.

I Rewatched ‘King Cobra,’ James Franco’s Terrible Gay Bait Murder Movie

It was January, and I had the fake, so I was eager to redirect a bad mood. I had only seen one butt, standing still in a jockstrap for two seconds. At the minute mark, as Corrigan strolls wistfully through a horse stable, I turned it off and opened Scruff instead. An IMDb search I performed during an early scene on my second viewing attempt, last week, revealed that Franco is only one of several executive producers, and the film was written and directed by Justin Kelly, co-writer and director of I Am Michaelstarring Franco and Zachary Quinto, about an ex-gay pastor.

Corrigan, a. Sean Lockhart, which is not a bad porn name to begin with, is played by Garrett Clayton, which is also a pretty decent porn name. James Franco appears, as he so often does, as gay-but-not-that-kind-of-gay tough guy rival porn producer Joe Kerekes, whose boyfriend Harlow Cuadra Keegan Allen brutally stabs Kocis for, like, twenty seconds in the last fifteen minutes of the film.

Boogie Nights at least shows pretend dick. When King Cobra was released, inits straight stars did the usual bravery junketpatting each other on the back for eschewing gay stereotypes in favor of acting. Funny how that happens to some human beings! Franco has made a cottage career of being a cock tease on gay themes, from James Dean to Howlbut King Cobra efron an especially brash half-assing.

This is the world we live in. Some of the acting hits its mark. The writing is wooden—too wooden, even, for a couch-ridden homosexual with nowhere else to be. I need some products. Who is this movie for? Franco absolutely cannot hang. Another Franco project, Interior. Leather Bar. Franco type casting gay men to have sex on camera, dressed as extras from the thenyear-old original film.

And without an appreciable investment in the material world being portrayed—such as casting gay people to play gay people, or scripting a gay sex scene that is even half-mast sexy—what is King Cobra but self-directed voyeurism through a supremely boring peephole? Corrigan was a victim, whatever his role in his own victimization.

Zac course, it can be both. Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your gay daily. Follow John Sherman on Twitter. By Ashley Fike.