Nine minutes of pure, excruciating gay panic. You'll cringe-laugh through your hands.
When a young gay man suspects he has an STI and goes in for testing, he discovers the older man he recently slept with is a doctor at the clinic.
Writing
Every line escalates the disaster with surgical precision.
Acting
Jacot's deadpan doctor energy versus Reid's escalating panic is chef's kiss.
Direction
Reid squeezes three acts of humiliation into nine flawless minutes.
Director
Andy Reid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andy Reid wrote, directed, and starred while serving as festival programmer—he literally greenlit his own discomfort.
The film weaponizes a very specific queer fear: the sexual health clinic as potential social space, where Grindr meets the waiting room.
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