The Day of the Locust

Movie Summary: Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Queer Film LA Says: Gay director John Schlesinger directs this adaptation of the classic novel of Hollywood depravity, adding moments of gay panic and grotesquerie to elevate the film's social horror.