Cricket’s film is audacious and miraculous in its ingenuity, while also getting really under your skin with its intensity. The film is the gay porn loose remake of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist and while there’s no prosthetic head spinning, levitation, or pea soup vomiting, this film is just as disturbing, discomforting, and frightening as the horror classic. Cricket’s Sex Demon has gotten a two-city release in Los Angeles and this Halloween weekend at New York’s Spectacle Theater with a digitized scan of a recently recovered print after never being reproduced on video after its short shelf-life at gay theaters in the late 1970s.
He was just hiding in a previously believed to be lost film that had stopped circulating in the corners of gay adult films for almost four decades. Turns out there was a “Demon Twink” out there all along.