Socket to Me!

Check out Socket, a wonderfully deranged gay sci-fi horror film directed by Sean Abley about Doctor Bill Matthews (Derek Long), struck by lightening, who wakes in the hospital alive, but super-charged, so to speak. A good-looking intern named Craig (Matthew Montgomery) slips him a card and advises him to call it. It’s the number for a secret society of like-minded electricity fiends who meet to hold hands and attach themselves to a live wire for that extra jolt. Craig and Bill become lovers, but bored with having to stick a fork into an electrical outlet for a quick thrill, Bill surgically implants plugs and actual sockets into their wrists for easy access. But like a junkie, Bill needs more and more juice, and when he accidentally kills a mugger with his charged bare hands he lights up like a Con Edison plant. With plenty of nods to David Cronenberg, not to mention Mr. Wizard, Socket gives new meaning to calling your date a dim bulb. It comes out on DVD on March 25th and all I can say is: Socket to me!