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Stars: Jennifer Leigh Houston, Charley Tucker, Michele Ammon, Leanne Borghesi, Stephen Mosher, Pat Dwyer, Sally Struthers, Carla Rhodes | Written and Directed by Allan Piper

The title of eVil Sublet carries a double meaning. Ostensibly, it stands for East Village, the area of NYC where the film is set. But, since this is a horror comedy, it also means the apartment isn’t just furnished, it’s haunted. It certainly has a bloody history, something the prologue makes quite clear. That doesn’t, however, scare off Alex (Jennifer Leigh Houston; Apostasy) when she and her husband Ben when they tour it. When told the last tenant killed his family and buried them in the garden, she’s excited it has a garden, regardless of what was planted in it.

Of course, as soon as they move in, strange things start happening, from doors that open themselves, to creepy dolls that keep...

I’m super-excited about this year’s Q-Fest….and I’m not even gay!

There are a pair of must-see gay-themed films making their St. Louis debuts; I Am Divine, a documentary about the late crossdresser and John Waters frequent star, and James Franco’s Interior Leather Bar, a high-concept recreation of scenes that were cut from William Friedkin’s notorious 1980 gay serial killer movie Cruising. Divine was one of the biggest, most outrageous, and proudly different gay cultural icons the world has known and the new documentary about the performer I Am Divine plays at Q-fest this Friday night at 7pm. A high (or low) point in Divine’s career was John Waters 1972’s masterpiece Pink Flamingos where he/she competes for the title of “filthiest person alive” by eating fresh dog poop. With antics like that, it’s no surprise that the emerging punk scene adopted his visage on t-shirts.

No one can deny the issue of gay marriage in this country. Over the last decade many states have debated the allowance or denial of gay marriage, especially in California where a new law seems to take effect every other year. Only a handful of states currently allow gay marriage while many others have passed civil union laws. What do you do when you’ve been with someone for twenty-five years and you still can’t legally marry in your state of residence? For Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer the answer is simple: you get married in all the states that will let you. Married and Counting, directed by Allan Piper, is a testament to love and human rights. Mosher and Dwyer met at the University of North Texas as college students and have been together ever since. They wanted to celebrate their love for each other and thought the...