King Cobra
King Cobra is a biographical crime-drama film about the life and early career of Brent Corrigan. When Brent decides he'd be better off a free agent, a cash-strapped pair of rival producers aim to cash in by any means possible.
18 August 1969, New York City, New York, USA
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
9 December 1992
July1963, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
18 February 1968, Roseville, California, USA
4 October 1976, San Francisco, California, USA
22 July 1989
November 15, 2016
A blandly watchable but ultimately pointless melodrama aimed at titillating gay audiences without actually satisfying them.
October 29, 2016
King Cobra smells more like business plan than a movie.
October 18, 2016
The unique setting aside, there's just not much to sink your fangs into.
November 14, 2016
An inside look at the gay porn industry is, unfortunately, much as one would expect.
February 13, 2017
"King Cobra" is compelling and erotic, provocative and foreboding, catching the eye and, ultimately, in one's throat.
November 03, 2016
Though based on a true story, it's presented with none of a docudrama's ragged, lumpy oddity: the narrative is on the lean side, but as taut and burnished as the bodies it depicts.
October 27, 2016
Slater has some effective moments and Franco excels at a certain kind of scary/funny psycho, but it doesn't ultimately add up to much as either pulpy trash or exposé.
November 23, 2016
Slater and Franco are compelling in their roles, but King Cobra's jarring use of humor overly blurs the line between drama and satire while leaving a lot left unpacked.
November 04, 2016
An uninspired addition to the canon of homosexual-killer films.
October 20, 2016
King Cobra is a cut above most homoerotic masturbatory screen fantasies, but not by much.
November 10, 2016
Kelly, so eager to emulate Boogie Nights, doesn't allow his characters to become more than thin stereotypes in a story that plods to its grim and obvious conclusion.
October 20, 2016
To say it feels reasonably authentic doesn't mean it's very good.
