| 3 Stories About Evil | |
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3 Stories About Evil |
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| Directed by | Michael Frost |
| Produced by | Jay Frank Walter Reuben Michael Frost Andrew Sachs Edgar Varela |
| Written by | Walter Reuben |
| Starring | Mink Stole Erica Gavin Joe Dallesandro Billy Drago Suzete Belouin Barry Brisco Joey Krebs Kimmy Robertson Laurence Tolhurst |
| Cinematography | Andrew K. Sachs |
| Editing by | Michael Frost |
| Distributed by | Helsinki Productions |
| Release date(s) | 2008 |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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.[1]
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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.[2][3][4]
Three interrelated stories comprise the plot structure of this film. In the first, "The Story of Johnnie & Laurie," Johnnie (Barry Brisco) is betrayed by his sister (Suzette Belouin) when she finds out his sexual proclivities. When she informs her parents (Billy Drago & Erica Gavin) about his homosexuality, their estrangement leads Johnnie through a series of unsavory incidents. In "The Story of Pat & Pepper," Pat (Mink Stole) is a Christian conservative and her five year old daughter Pepper (Pepper Peeters) participates in children's beauty pageants. Ambivalent over her daughter's attractiveness to pageant officials, Pat accidentally kills Pepper and transforms her into a dead chanteuse. Finally, in "The Story of Jim," Jim (Joey Krebs) takes the advice of his best friend Eddie (Laurence Tolhurst) 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.[4]