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Micro Queers: O Fantasma (2000)

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Queer Horror, Gay Horror, Lgbt Horror, Film Reviews, Queer, Tv & Film, Gay, Film History, Lgbt

4.7931 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of queer director João Pedro Rodrigues' controversial erotic drama O Fantasma (2000).

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0:00.0

We're gonna carry on and

0:11.7

baby these days

0:14.8

you gotta have a sequel

0:16.7

ya!

0:31.0

And And welcome back to Micro Queers. It's our sporadic queer horror movie review. And I'm Joe.

0:42.7

And I'm Trace. And we are covering Juo Pedro Rodriguez's 2000, I'm porno Fantasma, O Fantasma, for its 25th anniversary.

0:48.8

Indeed, we are. Yes, this is definitely one that I have programmed for us, although I should note that we did get a patron request for this back in the day. I think it was last year when

0:53.8

we asked folks if there was a specific title they might like us to back in the day. I think it was last year when we asked folks if there

0:54.8

was a specific title they might like us to cover in the future. And somebody did mention this.

0:59.2

And it reminded me that it had an anniversary coming up. So thank you for that person. Yes.

1:04.1

And see, everyone, if you sign it to be a patron, you get things like this. A movie I've never

1:09.2

heard of in a director or an author I've never heard of. And when I, when we started doing some little research into

1:14.6

this, I was like, wow, this is, I mean, maybe not prolific, but this guy's

1:18.6

got, I mean, a type of film he likes to make.

1:21.6

There we go. Yes. It's always nice to dip your toe back into international

1:25.6

cinema too, right? Because you never

1:27.8

know what you might discover. But I appreciate you acknowledging this is unsimulated sex.

1:34.5

You know, we're going to have a bit of a debate or a discussion about whether this film opens with a sexual assault.

1:39.7

So there's definitely some confronting material. But folks, this film is widely available to watch. If you live in the U.S., I think you said it's on Tooby, right, Trace? Yes, I watched this on Tooby, and I did not know walking into it was going to be unsimulated sex. And so it wasn't until we got the actual full frontal nudity from our lead actor Ricardo Manessus that I was like, oh, this is, because

2:02.1

this is also 2000.

2:02.9

I don't think we're really doing prosthetics at this point.

2:05.1

No, definitely was not a popular thing.

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