A puppet master who makes people dance to his every desire — literally.
Power and sex drive the mysterious and manipulative BLAZE. He has the ability to control people and make them obey him. He gives Jeremy a new car but the price Jeremy has to pay is a humiliating sex act. He prepares a lovely barbecue for three friends, and watches, as it becomes an erotic poolside session. Blaze goes to Firestorm's dressing room after his dance show and shows him his own fiery dance. When Blaze talks four guys into breaking into a firehouse, they get caught by the Captain, who forces them to practice using their hoses. When there is no one for Blaze to manipulate, he can only turn to controlling his own fantasies.
Direction
Di Masolo's unflinching gaze turns exploitation into aesthetic
Production
Firehouse set piece is absurdly committed to its metaphor
Costume
Firestorm's stage looks scream early-2000s club culture
Director
Ginetto di Masolo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early-2000s queer cinema that embraced explicit content as political visibility, before streaming sanitization.
The firehouse sequence reportedly used an actual decommissioned station in Los Angeles, with real firefighters as extras who didn't know the film's full content.
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