Daily Dose: Clive Barker hearty dose of homoerotic noir

Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.

The Magical Mystery Tour: Lord of Illusions

Horror icon Clive Barker hit a new high with this 1995 thriller; an irony, considering that Barker would retire from directing feature films shortly thereafter. Lord of Illusions channels classic film noir mysteries and gay fetish clubs into an erotic tale of mystery, magic, and bonkers horror. Perpetual silver fox Scott Bakula stars as private eye Henry D’Amour who stumbles onto a murder mystery involving a Manson Family-like cult, a David Copperfield-type magician, and an undead warlock. As with all Barker’s work, the film also has a powerful erotic charge, which includes an overtly gay former cult member, and the implied homoerotic relationships of several other key characters. Bakula shows off his range and abilities as a leading man…not to mention his naked body, and a young Famke Janssen shines in one of her earliest roles. Maybe it’s the stir-crazy. Maybe it’s the horniness. Maybe it’s the need for an adrenaline rush. Regardless, we have the craving for something sexy and scary, and nobody does the love child of the two better than Clive Barker.

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Piers Morgan Tears into His ‘Friend’ Donald Trump for ‘Failing the American People’ on Coronavirus Response: WATCH

On CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday, British commentator Piers Morgan gave Donald Trump an F for his response to the coronavirus crisis, noting that “all the tricks” Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson “used to become popular and win elections are now being tested in a very different way.”

“It’s not about partisan politics anymore, it’s about plain war crisis leadership,” said Morgan. “And it’s a very different thing. And what I’ve noticed with Boris Johnson and with Donald Trump is an apparent inability to segueway into being war leaders. They’re still playing the old games of party politics.”

Morgan then noted that he considers Trump “a friend” who he’s known for a long time, but has been watching the daily briefings “with mounting horror.”

“The President of the United States right now is an incredibly important person in the world,” Morgan continued. “And not least to Americans who are dying in the tens of thousands. … And all that is required from the president in those moments, and any world leader, frankly, is they have to be calm, show authority, they have to be honest, they have to be accurate, entirely factual with what they’re telling the people and they have to have an ability to show empathy. And on almost every level of that, Donald Trump at the moment is failing the American people. He’s turning these briefings into a self-aggrandizing, self-justifying, overly defensive, politically partisan—almost like a rally to him.

“Almost like what is more important is winning the election in November. No it’s not, Donald Trump!”

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Piers Morgan Tears into His ‘Friend’ Donald Trump for ‘Failing the American People’ on Coronavirus Response: WATCH

Must-See LGBTQ TV: ‘Will & Grace’ series finale and premiere of ‘We’re Here’

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