Highway Hypnosis
No Longer Playing
1984 63 min
Introduced by Film Historian and Muscle Distribution Founder Elizabeth Purchell
Ken Camp’s 1984 masterpiece Highway Hypnosis is a feature-length structuralist gay horror video that follows a serial killer as he travels from LA to Las Vegas, mostly looking out the window and listening to soft-rock classics, only stopping briefly to hook up with and then kill his lovers. As the title indicates, the editing and music lull viewers into a hypnotic, trance-like state, making the brief bursts of violence all the more intense. Though there are very few frames of actual “horror” in the tape, the cumulative effect is far more disturbing than the graphic gore flicks of the 1980s. - Text Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives
Preceded by Shock Video (Dir. Ken Camp, 1985, 12 min., DCP) and Mouse Klub Konfidential (Dir. James Robert Baker, 1976, 15 min., DCP)
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