Gregg Araki's "The Living End" (1992)

I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. An early entry in New Queer Cinema. A road movie about a pair of HIV positive men. One has nothing to lose and other does.

Luke narrowly but effortlessly escapes a pair of serial killer lesbians and now has their gun. He wisely kills three men who are about to attack him with baseball bats. He meets Jon when he jumps in his car to flee.

Made for around $20 thousand. Araki planned to film without sound and dub, but Jon Jost convinced him record live sound.

I liked it better after reading a negative review by a prissy Washington Post critic.

The two stars each had two other acting credits, one for an CBS Schoolbreak Special in 1984. Others in the movie had longer filmographies.

Available on the Criterion Channel.