Latin Boys Go to Hell

Starring:Irwin Ossa, John Bryant Davila, Jenifer Lee Simard, Alexis Artiles, Mike Ruiz, Anne Iobst, Dashia, Jehad Nga, Rebecca Sumner Burgos, Reynier Molenaar, Steve, Ari Gold (II), Norma Maldonado, JosÃ© MuÃ±oz (III), Umberto GonzÃ¡lez, Guinevere Turner, Yvonne Washington, Elena Troyano
Director: Ela Troyano
Studio: Strand Releasing
Product Type: DVD

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The Flavor of Salsa
Horrible all around!!
Latin Boys Go to Hell
what can I say?.....
Film showing the influence of TV, the church and culture

Latin Boys Go to Hell
Starring: Irwin Ossa , John Bryant Davila , Jenifer Lee Simard , Alexis Artiles , and Mike Ruiz
Director: Ela Troyano
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00005ASPG
Release Date: 2002-02-12

Customer Reviews:

The Flavor of Salsa.......2007-05-19

"Latin Boys Go to Hell"

The Flavor of Salsa

Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride

"Latin Boys Go to Hell" may not be a movie for everyone but it is an interesting and quite good independent film. It deals with many issues--homosexuality, religion, body culture, and ethnicity and it also touches the Fiesta Fatal (Festival of the Dead), psychoses and parodies the Spanish novella as well. It is a very ambitious movie.
Justin, a gay teenager, is the main character and what happens in his life is our story. Angel, a cousin, arrives from Chicago and Justin realizes that he is in love with him. However, Angel falls for another guy, Andrea who just happens to be the friend of a gay man who is very possessive. As everything goes out of control, drama sets in.
The movie has no pretense--it doesn't pretend to be a great movie, it is aware that it is a very thin movie with a very fragile script. The characters are trashy but the dialog is very funny and the actors are all good looking. It is a movie that requires no thought--all it s trying to do is to provide a good time. In that, it succeeds very well.
Reminiscent of the early movies of Almodovar and John Waters, it requires a degree of wit and culture to be understood. Much of the humor is subliminal and the sex portrayed is very campy.
From the title, you can expect a campy film or a sexy movie, it is neither, It has camp and it has sex but that is not what defines it. It is not serious drama either. The plot is predictable--what happens to a gay guy who pursues a straight guy. This is a plotline that has been done to death. There is little nudity and the sex is very vanilla. For a film about gay Latinos, this is very, very tame. It just seems to be that if a gay guy is going to lust after a straight guy, the object of that lust should be a knockout. The straight is not only plain in the movie, he is downright ugly.
The movie rests somewhere between a coming of age drama and a spoof of sexploitation films. There is violence in the film with images of castration and the plot is very soap-operatic.
But it is fun and we need fun movies once in a while.

Horrible all around!!.......2007-02-14

The acting is horrible, the movie is stupid, and the cinematography looks cheap!!! This is what happens when you buy a DVD just cause the guy on the cover is hot. Avoid this junk at all costs. I would give it zero stars if I could. Absolute TRASH!!!!

Latin Boys Go to Hell.......2006-05-16

amateur, and the cast isn't that good-looking; but I got sucked in by the title and front cover anyway. Sorry I bought it. Would rather a sweet, gay romance than the violence and craziness of this flix.
- Bruce

what can I say?............2003-06-09

For whatever reason, I didn't expect much from this movie.. but I got sucked in anyway.. It's a little campy and over the top at times, but suspenseful and gripping as well.. Kind of like those Telenovelas (Latin American soap operas) that are all over this film (maybe not quite as over the top, but if you watch, you can see the parallel)...That's another thing.. I love the symbolism they use...which is so bold, I can't help but love the drama of it all.... That and the attractive cast certainly doesn't hurt either....

It's not a provocative, challenging film by any means (who says it has to be anyway?), but it's a very entertaining, dare I say tantalizing gay indie film....I guess I'm a sucker for this sort of thing....

Film showing the influence of TV, the church and culture.......2002-08-11

Not the best acting or photography, but a very gritty look at Latino [homosexual]culture. Some humor, but mostly a soap-opera view of love, Latino culture, the influence of the church, and sexual identity through the eyes of two characters.

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