John is late in bis career and on the cusp of being a washout, his underage girlfriend (Kate Bosworth) pretty much the only friend he has in the world. The film follows his association with a group of fellow undesirables, interested only in furthering their own drug habits by any means necessary, legal or otherwise. I don't know what the real Holmes was like (besides tell rumours of his anaconda cock), but the version we see here is a sniveling, unrepentant scumbag who is very hard to empathize with unless you flip the nihilism switch on in your brain and lose yourself in it. Both films explore the violence and ugliness that peppers American history in different ways, the brash and the academic which often exist in opposite poles colliding in Wonderland, a wholeheartedly nasty account of a stomach churning multiple murder involving one of the most infamous porn stars who ever lived, John Holmes (Val Kilmer). It has the sordid, excessive sleaziness of U Turn, and the studious inquisition into true crime and intriguing Americana that he showed us in JFK. I've always thought of this as the Oliver Stone Movie that the man never made. Reviewed by NateWatchesCoolMovies 7 / 10 A cesspool of a film, expertly made though Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?-monkeykingma But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. He's estranged from his wife, holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress, and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. John Holmes was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud.
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