Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he loved love!

Tony Cannelloni (Louie Bonanno) just wants to get out of his mom’s (Marie Sawyer) house and get laid. If you were watching this on USA Up All Night, you get it. He gets a book, Sex Appeal, and tries to become a sexual dynamo. He doesn’t, but his landlord (Jeffrey Hurst) writes about him as the New Jersey Casanova, which becomes some kind of fame (and the source of a heart attack for his mother).

Tony is in love with Corrine (Tally Chanel), but the thing viewers will probably enjoy — well, me — is that this is packed with mid 80s adult stars, like Gloria Leonard as a newscaster, Veronica Hart as a woman so sensitive that her fingers are erogenous zones, Merle Michaels as a nerdy girl who ticks all my boxes and ends up flipped into a Murphy bed and Taija Rae and Samantha Fox as two tough girls who truss up Tony and have their way with him. And Candida Royalle as a sex worker!

I get that this is a dumb sex comedy with no budget, but it caught me on an afternoon where I had doom scrolled the end of the world and was in sheer panic mode. I was feeling like no one wanted to listen to me or help me feel better and here’s Chuck Vincent, forty years in the past, giving me the hug that I needed.

As for the lead actor in this, “In February of 1992, following a string of miraculous events, and in answer to his prayers for Divine guidance, Louix had an encounter with four Ascended Masters. Soon thereafter, he renounced the material world and began training in earnest with the Masters in The Ancient Mystery School, fulfilling one of the prophecies spoken to him by Jesus at the age of five.” Thanks to theironcupcake on Letterboxd for this.

You can watch this on Tubi.