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Deviant

Country: USA, Language: English, 10 mins

  • Director: Benjamin Howard
  • Writer: Benjamin Howard; James Hall
  • Producer: Ricardo Osuna

CGiii Comment

As horrifying as it is, this is a beautifully crafted film.

With the mother sitting in the same room as her son goes through abject, humiliating torture...is - truly - a powerful and crushingly effective decision.

Call yourself a mother!?! Indeed.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In the early sixties, a sexually conflicted teenager finds faith and acceptance after escaping the tortures of electrotherapeutic conversion therapy.

Cast & Characters

Bianca Alvarado as Church Attendee;
Rudy Pankow as Marcel;
Court Rutter as Pastor Murphy;
Kathryn Mayer as Church Attendee;
Krystina Montemurro as Marcel's Mother;
Alexa Ann Hoover as Church Attendee;
Meghan Courtney as Church Attendee;
Mami Pat as Church Attendee;
Mike Burnell as Conversion Therapist