Today’s two DVD releases - “Darkness” and “Leslie Jordan: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet” present the same theme: facing the past. In terms of style, however, both films are worlds apart.
Darkness is a sleek horror film from Juraj Herz (director of the cult film "The Cremator"). It tells the tale of a musician’s return to the country home of his childhood – where the ghosts of the past literally come back to haunt him. Rogue Cinema calls it a “methodical, brooding ghost story … in the vein of Del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone.’”
In his “Trip Down the Pink Carpet,” Emmy winner Leslie Jordan also pulls a few skeletons out of the closet – though in a much more humorous fashion. Filmed during Jordan’s live comedy show in Atlanta (and based on his book of the same name), the frenetic one-man show allows the singular comedian - made famous for his turn as Beverley Leslie on "Will and Grace" - to recount his journey as a gay, southern man with aspirations of entering Hollywood show business.
Jordan has since parlayed the comedy routine into an Off Broadway show, which GaySocialite.com has described as “Not just a laugh-so-hard-you-cry look at the world through ultra-gay eyes … it’s also an often moving look at the very best and worst of what gay culture has to offer."
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