William Friedkin’s (The Exorcist) Cruising has been on my To Watch list for a really long time. When Greg saw it recently and described the above scenes to me I went “Holy Shit!”. I had been trying to figure out where that scene was from after seeing clips on TV Carnage! I guess it would have helped my search had I realized that Pacino was in those clips. Don’t watch TV Carnage too fucked up is the lesson I learned here, but I digress… Cruising is one fucking amazingly gritty, weird & totally open ended movie! Pacino plays a young cop who’s hungry to make detective. So when offered an assignment to go undercover within the NY gay S&M community to track down a serial killer he takes it. But tracking down The “Homo Killer” as dubbed by the Daily News within the film takes a serious toll on Pacino’s psyche and identity. This is totally up their in the annals of “Look at how scary NYC was in the late 70s” movies along with my slasher favorite, Maniac. Joe Spinell (The Maniac in Maniac) even happens to have a small supporting role in Cruising as a crooked beat cop on the DL.

I bet finally seeing this is a lot like what Ron was feeling after he finally discovered Built to Spill last year, Zing!

But I still have no clue who that Black Cowboy in the jockstrap is though. Watching the movie doesn’t really answer that question and neither do the people on IMDB either. Oh well, I’ll leave you with one more clip. Go Netflix this movie like right now!