MORE Naughty Film Fun With “Daddy Dearest” Screenings At NW Film Forum

So many zexy queer film screenings to choose from as we head into spring…we just posted about Bruce LaBruce’s new film THE VISITOR screening via Seattle Erotic Cinema Society at the Beacon. But, for fans of pure gay male film fun, there’s also the week long run of a gay porn classic from the 80s..Arthur J. Bressan Jr’s 1984 film DADDY DEAREST has been restored in 2k for 40th anniversary screenings and it will screen at Seattle’s own Northwest Film Forum starting on Thursday, March 20th and then intermittently through Sunday, March 30th. Schedule below:

Thu Mar 20: 7.30pm PDT
Sat Mar 22: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Sun Mar 23: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT
Fri Mar 28: 7.30pm PDT
Sat Mar 29: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm** PDT
Sun Mar 30: 4.30pm PDT, 7.30pm PDT

And, local OnlyFans star SeattleDad will be part of a discussion at the Saturday, March 29th, 7:30pm screening.

Daddy Dearest is an old school porno from the last of the era when erotic films were filmed instead of videotaped. Filmmakers shot on film with cameras and then edited the films which meant the films had a richer, more cinematic look than the ghastly cheap video look that came into domination right as this film was being made. (Paul Thomas Anderson’s classic “Boogie Nights” examines this exact same subject.)

It was also a time when AIDS was emerging and condoms would become required on gay adult film sets and also sadly a time that saw the beginning of the decimation of gay male performers in the industry.

Daddy Dearest starred two of the biggest names of the time, Daniel Holt and Richard Locke (as the older daddy). Holt had the classic “Castro Clone” look of the era; swarthy, dark haired and mustached. He appeared in dozens of films for every major director of the late 70s and early 80s before moving mostly behind the camera as a casting agent and then into managing gay porn talent for filmwork and work as an escort. Holt had a serious drug problem which ended up destroying his career and he eventually overdosed in 1993 It’s been rumored the overdose may have been intentional as Holt was struggling with HIV/AIDS. He was only 35 years old.

Richard Locke was probably one of the most revered gay adult film performers of the time, and one who used his more mature look to his advantage, playing blue collar paternal figures in his films. He is probably best known for appearing in Joe Gage’s “Working Man” trilogy of films, (Kansas City Trucking Company, El Paso Wrecking Company, and LA Tool and Die). After his positive HIV diagnosis in 1983, Locke became a pioneering HIV/AIDS advocate and toured the country promoting “sensible sex”. Daddy Dearest was the last porn film he made in the pre-condom era. He later did a safe sex video to promote safe sex awareness. A longtime resident of the Palm Springs area, Locke returned to Sacremento California in 1996 to be closer to family and medical attention and died there. Richard Locke was an amazing guy and much loved in gay community. He’s still fondly (and luridly) remembered for his sizzling sex work in the amazing films of that era.

Both Daddy Dearest and another Bressan film, Juice are being released on DVD after major 2k restorations. Get them at: https://www.alteredinnocence.net/daddyjuice

Check out the trailer:

More about the film:

(Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 1984, USA, 72 min, in English)

Newly restored in 2K for its 40th anniversary!

Edward Thompson (Daniel Holt) is a gay filmmaker hard at work on his latest triple-X epic: the tacky story of a pair of college buddies (Dean Johnson and Andrew Dupree) wanting to hook up with an older daddy (Richard Locke) called Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Daddy! But as shooting gets underway, Edward finds his happy memories of his ex (Johnny Dawes) and his private fantasies of the couple he peeps on (Jan Boscamp and Robert Vega) bleeding into the action happening on set. The concluding chapter in the loose trilogy started by Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters, Daddy Dearest is a lighthearted but provocative exploration of fantasy, memory, and cinema.

Daddy Dearest is not just a porn film—it is an artful and intimate record of contemporary Gay culture.” – Morgan Ellis, Bay Area Reporter

“Thoroughly explores the rim of the homophile sex world and plumbs the depths of positive, non-possessive, man-to-man interaction.” – Penni Kimmel, Alternate

“Provides snapshot-like glimpses of how Gay men live and play, while raising the stakes of our communal fantasies.” – David Lamble, Sentinel

Synopsis courtesy of Altered Innocence