Midnight Heat, Full movie (1983)

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Description: A hired killer goes on the run after being caught in bed with the wife of a mob boss. While he's holed up in a scuzzy Times Square room waiting for the hitmen he knows are after him, he reflects back on his life and what brought him to the situation he's in now.
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Dixie Dew, Jamie Gillis
Scene 2. Tish Ambrose, Jamie Gillis
Scene 3. Champagne, Joey Karson
Scene 4. Sharon Mitchell, Jamie Gillis
Scene 5. Champagne, Michael Bruce
Scene 6. Champagne, Jamie Gillis
Review:
I saw this film some 25 years ago on an old VHS copy, and was blown away by the darkness vision of this film... This has to be one of Jamie Gillis finest roles, and his most dark that he has ever done...

The story is of Gillis is a hit-man who hides out in a sleazy hotel after getting caught having sex with the bosses wife... While holed up he has visions of his past and the road to the hell he is at currently... There is also a secondary story of a prostitute that stays with Gills, and she also has visions of her past and her road to this murky dark place...

The film is excellent... the vision is dark, murky and well acted by the cast... The sex is not erotic, but not sleazy either... it is more poetry of the twisted images that play out as the characters continue on a downward spiral into oblivion with perhaps the most disturbing ending you'll ever see in a porn film...

Only one issue... the ending is different than I remember the last time I saw it... It plays out pretty much like I remembered, but I believe that it may have been edited by a few moments which does ruin what was a disturbing ending... The film is still recommended...

Roger Watkins is most well-known among cult film fans as the director of the enigmatic Last House on Dead End Street. A masterpiece in it's own right, most fans of the film are only vaguely aware of the career direction that he followed after that film, moving into hardcore films. Luckily, the same elements that made Last House... a minor classic remain present in Watkins' hardcore films, which make them entirely unique.
Jamie Gillis plays Alan, a man who's credo is more or less (I'm paraphrasing here) "if something isn't dangerous, it's not worth doing." The film opens with Alan nonchalantly killing a man. Later, Alan ends up sleeping with the mob boss' wife, which leads to him hiding out, avoiding the threat of death. While Alan is stuck in his slummy hotel room, the viewer experiences flashbacks that Alan has of elements of his life (all involving sex) which have more or less led him to the place where he is today; he is more or less apathetic, an "hollow man" as T.S. Eliot (who is briefly referenced) would say. We're shown how his relationship with his wife disintegrated by his utter apathy, his inability to emote, or even really have an emotional response to anything. We're shown how his relationship with a whore leads to him having larger, higher profile hit jobs. And none of it is very pretty. Eventually, Alan calls an escort service and has two girls come to his hotel room. Once there, he watches while they fuck each other, claiming that he "prefers to watch." After the two are done, he pays them and asks one of the girls, Diane, to say. Despite some concern from the other call girl, Diane agrees.

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