MINESHAFT: THE CRUISING MURDERS

The 1970s: San Francisco’s gay bars, leather, free love, and hot, kinky nights. Then, mysterious disappearances and murders occur…sometimes without bodies. Is it a serial killer? The police however aren’t rushing to solve these cases.
When a Variety reporter is found unconscious in his home, an investigation finally begins. In 1979, when the successful director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection, etc.) tackles his film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino, the screenplay gets leaked and stirs up anger among the gay community. How could anyone accept the continued portrayal of gay men as deviant individuals, lurking in the underworld with potential murderers and  notorious victims?
A fascinating and meticulous documentary, edited like a thriller, that sheds new light on cinematic representations and queer history.