A porn producer gets stalker threats—meta-mystery or just another day in '90s adult film?
Porn Producer Paul Carrigan has been getting threatening letters and phone calls, but from who?
Production
Genuinely fascinating time capsule of '90s gay adult industry infrastructure.
Writing
Self-aware script that might accidentally be commentary.
Director
Brad Austin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
'Studio Tricks' exemplifies the brief '90s trend of adult films aping mainstream thriller structures to justify budgets and runtime. Most vanished; this one survives as queer archival oddity.
Director Brad Austin and star Paul Carrigan ran a small production company together—the threatening letters plot may literally be inside-joke workplace grievance aired on camera.
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