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Frisk |  | Actors: Alexis Arquette, Craig Chester, Brook Dillon, Mark Ewert, Michael Gunther
Studio: Strand Releasing
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 16284
Format: DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 712267960125
EAN: 0712267960125
ASIN: B0000DC150
Theatrical Release Date: March 22, 1996
Release Date: September 16, 2003
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 watered down version of an intense novel April 20, 2009
Joseph Pawloski (Chicago, Il.)
This movie missed the boat at every turn. Frisk was a rough alienating novel where the main characters used S&M sex as a balm for their feelings of alienation. The woefully miscast actors were not up to the task of the complex emotions that should have guided this piece. Parker Posey always wonderful was reduced to playing a stand-in for some of the more nefarious characters in the novel the sadistic germans who assisted the lead in their dangerous sex games that ended in murder.
There's little skin on display for the voyeur crowd - was anyone really dying to see Alexis naked?
All-in-all infuriating and dissatifying.
Danger..... July 29, 2007
zhukov (las vegas)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
An ugly film that underscores the devolution and depravity of societies where the capitalist ethos of dog eats dog is the norm. In a land where the rich get greedier as the poor get desperate, where they shove their children into cauldrons like Vietnam and Iraq and pollute the environment until the climate goes into a tailspin, mass murderers and serial killers fit right in.
I watched about half the film looking for some condemnation or warning, but judgments were left to the viewer, and that's not smart in a society like ours.
 A Missed Opportunity December 27, 2006
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
"FRISK"
A Missed Opportunity
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
The controversial novel, "Frisk" (Strand Releasing) about gay sadomasochism has been turned into an effective, but pointless, movie which revolves around two long friends, Dennis and Julian. They have different attitudes about sex, pain, and pleasure. "Frisk" attempts to look at pornography and imagery and how it fuels these two guys. Dennis has been attracted to `snuff" magazines and he gets together with masochistic Henry who likes to be bloodied while having sex.
Julian, after a while in Paris, wants to settle down in a monogamous relationship but the two friends drift apart when Dennis trams up with a group of San Francisco thrill killers.
Given these two characters, it is easy to see that "Frisk" is a disturbing film as it shows extreme sexual practices with are rarely dealt with on film. The main problem with "Frisk" is that director/co-writer does not make his audience care about his characters. This matter-of-fact movie startles occasionally, startling and shocking.
When this film came out in 1995 it was the most talked about gay film among gay folks so much so that people boycotted it and those that went to see it ran out of the theater seething with anger. What the film depicted was a gay writer who went on a killing spree to satisfy his own sexual curiosity. There was no moral judgment imposed in the film and no punishment was dealt out. He simply killed his tricks, invites friends to participate and then kills some more. He never gets caught and never feels any guilt whatsoever. There was little narrative and little dramatic tension. The film just ended. Taken out of circulation, Verow rethought the film and trimmed it. It did not alleviate the rage, it just channeled it. What remains is an awkward and boring "exercise in pretension by marginal talents who take themselves too seriously".
Other filmmakers have dealt with controversy with wit and relevance. Verow has isolated his characters in empty, poorly-lit rooms that would not both "literally and metaphorically don't let in the rest of the world".
If Todd Verow had the intention of raising the issue of internal homophobia, media violence or the acceptance of death as a consequence of AIDS then he failed dismally. He provides nothing to show that the fate of the characters has any great meaning except that the consumption of porn during the impressionable years can cause someone to become a cold-blooded murderer. These people are sick losers who are too lifeless to arouse sympathy or identification.
I have read that such a portrayal could have been an attempt in the name of objectivity but this also does not work. A major fact that I noted is that everyone in the film is white, handsome, built and well-coifed. The may have bruises but they still look good. Murder is simply glamorized.
The acting is stiff and it was obviously intended to provide the kind of message it gave. In the aim to explore the extremities of racial and sexual power and fetishism there is a gap between the intent of the film and the way it was executed. The violence surrounding the characters is overt and by confronting conventional notions of the real and the imagined, Frisk tries to challenge the subjectivity of the viewer by looking at the way our culture de-racializes and de-sexualizes identity by hegemonizing and homogenizing them under the supremacy of reductive sameness.
"Frisk" comes across as half finished, rambling and confused because of the way Verow addressed such issues as sexual compulsion and the objectification of types in gay life by making the mistake of attempting to celebrate and honor the diversity of style.
Instead of looking at and illuminating the power of mass culture to cannibalize difference, Verow describes these issues in a rather boring manner. "Frisk" could have been fascinating but it turns out to be a missed opportunity.
It gave me nightmares November 26, 2006
Patrick (Wisconsin, USA)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
It was umm...interesting. If it was the movie's goal to scar me psychologically, mission accomplished. I've seen some freaky horror movies but this one is up there with the most disturbing.
 Very intense October 1, 2006
Mark (Madison, Wisconsin)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This movie is very intense to watch. I orginally got this movie was to see what all of the "hipe" was about when it was released. I am very glad that I did purchase it because it was one of the first movies to come out that didn't revolve around the AIDS issue. When you are gay, you don't have to hear about it everywhere you turn. It becomes part of our lives.
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