3 Stories About Evil


3 Stories About Evil is a 2008 short, experimental narrative film directed by Michael Frost and photographed by Andrew K. Sachs. It was written by Walter Reuben and stars Mink Stole, Erica Gavin, Joe Dallesandro, and Billy Drago. It premiered at Boston Underground Film Festival on 21 March 2008. The film is a narrative short composed almost entirely of still photographs. The three stories are interrelated black comedies about family, sexuality, the media, and beauty pageants.
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Plot

Three interrelated stories comprise the plot structure of this film. In the first, "The Story of Johnnie & Laurie," Johnnie is betrayed by his sister when she finds out his sexual proclivities. When she informs her parents about his homosexuality, their estrangement leads Johnnie through a series of unsavory incidents. In "The Story of Pat & Pepper," Pat is a Christian conservative and her five-year-old daughter Pepper participates in children's beauty pageants. Ambivalent over her daughter's attractiveness to a pageant judge, Pat accidentally kills Pepper and transforms her into a dead chanteuse. Finally, in "The Story of Jim," Jim takes the advice of his best friend Eddie and gets a job in the television industry. When Jim's career plummets due to poor ratings, he finds a sex change operation the perfect solution out of a desperate situation.

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