Taxpayer-Funded Porn Film 'Sexcula' Screens in Seattle

After successful screenings in Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa, Paris, France and Chicago, Sexcula will have one of its final screenings at The Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle Washington on October 18 and 25. At the end of 2014, the film goes back into storage. Sexcula is the only hardcore sex movie made in Canada during the entire "Porno Chic" era. The film was produced with an $80,000 tax credit. And because it was illegal to produce or exhibit pornography in Canada at that time, according to its current sponsors, that means that the Canadian government funded an illegal sex film! With its madcap mashup of vampires, Frankenstein's monsters, mad scientists, fembots, burlesque dancers, hunchbacks, lumberjacks, and a gorilla dubbed "Rape Ape," Sexcula has gained a following similar to Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Established in 1968, The Grand Illusion is the longest running independent cinema in Seattle. It was named one of the best movie houses in America along with such theaters as the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas and the Film Forum in New York. The Grand Illusion recently screened Seattle's first porn film, The Last Bath. Established by "porn archaeologist" Dimitrios Otis in 2001, the company Real Boogie Nights produces "Return to Porno Chic!" screenings of golden age adult films in a party atmosphere. Another recent adult film discovery by Otis, Ed Wood's final film The Young Marrieds, recently screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York.