2016 · crime · drama
King Cobra
Directed by Justin Kelly1h 33m2016
It’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home.
Our read: King Cobra (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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