Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh

Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh

93 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 1, 1985

Inspired by the early trash films of John Waters, the film stars Estdelacropolis as Demira, a gay porn actor struggling with both his emotionally complicated relationship with his mother Esther and his desire to break out of porn and into mainstream movies. He connects with a Freudian psychiatrist who is convinced that his homosexuality stems from an unresolved Oedipus complex which he has repressed by denying his natural attractions to women, to which the psychiatrist's proposed solution is to hypnotize Esther into believing that she is a man so that men will become the gender that sexually repulses Demira; in his career, he is ambivalent when the first "mainstream" role he is able to land is a gore film in which he will play the victim of a cannibal family for which Esther has also been cast as the mother.

Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh

93 mins | Drama, Comedy | Jan. 1, 1985

Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh
Inspired by the early trash films of John Waters, the film stars Estdelacropolis as Demira, a gay porn actor struggling with both his emotionally complicated relationship with his mother Esther and his desire to break out of porn and into mainstream movies. He connects with a Freudian psychiatrist who is convinced that his homosexuality stems from an unresolved Oedipus complex which he has repressed by denying his natural attractions to women, to which the psychiatrist's proposed solution is to hypnotize Esther into believing that she is a man so that men will become the gender that sexually repulses Demira; in his career, he is ambivalent when the first "mainstream" role he is able to land is a gore film in which he will play the victim of a cannibal family for which Esther has also been cast as the mother.
Producers National Film Board of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts
Original title Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh
Directors Demetri Estdelacropolis
Writers Demetri Estdelacropolis

Cast

Demetri Estdelacropolis

as Dimira / Lucie

Esther Vargas

as Mother

Michel Gagnon

as Psycho / Dentist

George Agettees

as Flaky Porno Director

Pierre Bastien

as Gay Basher

Christian Dufault

as N.Y. boy friend

Lawrence Joseph

as Hollywood Movie Producer

Harry Karagopian

as Harry

W.A. MacGregor

as Couch Prop

Marjorie Morton

as Woman with Pliers

Claire Nadon

as Porno actress

E.J. Sullivan

as Speed

Michelle Tardif

as Gore Twin Girl

Rick Trembles

as Gore Twin Boy