True to a seeming tradition, the Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival opens with its most puerile movie. There are indeed nine dead gay guys in Ky Mo Lab’s shameless comedy, and at least as many crude stereotypes, and if you can accept these fundamentally offensive conditions, the film does have its guilty pleasures.
One of them is definitely not Lucky Charm leprechaun Brendan Mackey as Byron, a young Irishman relocated to London who, surprise, is drunk and lazy and passes time by servicing local aging queens and squeaking out the film’s unfunny voiceover narrative. When his virginal buddy Kenny (Glenn Mulhern) joins him from the Auld Sod, the two get involved in a quest involving the title series of deaths, a mythical bed full of cash owned (of course) by a gay Orthodox Jew, a cattle prod, a huge black stud named Donkey Dick Dark, and an enormous lesbian named the Iron Lady who crushes to death a pedophilic priest who doesn’t pay her hush money. Lab tries hard to make it all seem hip, but this may be the least erotic gay movie ever filmed, unless you’re turned on by the spectacle of a character named Dick Cheese Deepak getting a blow job. For those who enjoy bad taste, there’s plenty to be had in 9 Dead Gay Guys. (83 minutes)