Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 2002 Page: 36 of 68
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The filth and the fury
Fascinating, disgusting documentary takes
a look at punk rock's most graphic performer
Filmed just before his death by
heroin overdose, Hated exam-
ines GG Allin's cross-dressing
past, his vile scatological
performances and his friendship
with John Wayne Gacy.
By Arnold Wayne Jones
Features Writer
Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
Musk Video Distributors
Hnled opens with a quotation praising
the "art" of GG Allin, a punk rocker who
died of a heroin overdose in 1993. It is
only after reading the quote the source is
revealed to be serial killer John Wayne
Gacy. That's the way it is, I guess, with art
— behave enough like a sociopath, and
like-minded sociopaths become your
greatest defenders.
Even those on the fringe
of the radical performance
art movement regarded
Alim as dwelling in a lonely
place at the extremes of
society. Even the iate Dee
Dee Ramone left the Allin's
band after a brief stint
because, if you can believe
it, he thought Allin was too
outrageous and controver-
sial.
It's easy to see why he
divided people. Within the first five minutes of
Haled, we see footage of Allin running naked
onstage playing his hateful music, then insert-
ing a carrot in someone's rectum before eating
it. (We even hear that one of his performances
amounted to his fans kicking and beating him
with bottles when he was too stoned to sing.)
Things begin to get weird after that.
Director Todd Phillips' outlaw documen-
tary, completed soon after Allin died, chroni-
cles a life that probably should not have been
lived — a pansexual, self-destructive,
grotesquely strange man whose music people
wanted to listen to but whose performances
they watched like a slow-motion train wreck.
(Everything about him seemed calculated to
shock. His band — called the Murder Junkies
— included a naked drummer who's served
time for indecent exposure to a minor; his
brother Merle, a bassist sporting a Hitler-like
moustache; and Allin himself, who, when he
bothered wearing any clothes at all, looked
more like the Unabomber than a musician.
Allin was also a cross-dresser in high school
and made a surprisingly convincing girl.)
Was Allin another Lenny Bruce, or a dan-
gerously unstable lunatic? (Allin himself said,
"If 1 wasn't a musician, I would probably have
been a mass murderer.") Hated never even tries
to define Allin, in part because the film is
remarkably balanced and non-judgmental, but
mostly because it just can't. One fan says he
made "a serious comment on the problems of
violence in the human race — [that] there's not
enough sweetness.'' Is he joking? Or was
Allin's life simply the ultimate irony?
There's nothing pretty about this movie.
Watching the expression on the face of Allin's
high school music teacher as he listens to a
noisy, disturbing track probably approximates
my look the entire time watching it. (Phillips
apparently learned from this experience about
the value of gross-out in capturing the imagi-
nation of his audience: He later gave us the
Tom Green "comedy" Road Trip.) But like Allin
himself, being pretty and being interesting are
not necessarily related.
In addition to the documentary itself,
which runs just under an hour, the DVD fea-
tures include an hour of additional footage
from Allin's last concert, but these extras held
little interest for me. Allin was compelling
enough in the small doses meted out in Hated,
but sometimes, you can have too much of a
good thing.
Grade: B ▼
GANDOLF GOES TO VIDEO
True Lord of the Rings fans might want lo hold off
before immediately purchasing the video release of
The Fellowship of the Ring. The spectacular cinema
epic — featuring Ian McKellen as the wizard Gandolf
— will have two release dates. The theatrical version
($25, VHS; $40, DVD) will be released on Aug. 6, but
a special extended edition will arrive in video stores
on Nov. 12 ($79). The extended four-disc DVD version
will include 30 minutes of additional footage, 50 min-
utes of new music, production documentaries, interac-
tive fealurettes and
various commentaries.
While fans are breath-
lessly wailing to own
this odyssey to Middle
Earth, the elaborate
November gift set is
most likely the smarter
buy. Until then, maybe
a trip or two lo the
video store is in order.
AUGUST 2, 2002
DALLAS VOICE
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