HIM (1974 gay Jesus porn)

Lurker who joined to comment on this. I briefly remember reading about this film in the past, and seeing this post set me back off on wanting to read about it again, so I read through the info contained within the article on LMW and its referenced blog post. Most any idea I would've had for leads are already contained within the blog comments: contact any living personalities quoted as having reviewed the film in its ads, etc. However, out of curiosity, I did do a Google Books search to see if any of the full reviews quoted were available. Not surprisingly, most of them were from niche periodicals that have little to no online presence in terms of historical articles. The most promising one in terms of the publication's notoriety, Time, did get a hit, but all that confirmed from the readable cached Google snippet of the article was that it was one in which Him was mentioned only briefly and was not itself the subject. The full available quoted excerpt:



The one piece of info I did find that I haven't seen previously confirmed, although it is referenced in one of the comments on the blog post linked in the LMW article, is from the brief Google Books snippet from the 1981 book The Bible on Film: A Checklist, 1897-1980:



So it appears this film might have been made (or at least distributed by?) Hand in Hand Films, which, according to research, was a company of the period that made several other gay pornos. The only reason I hesitate to treat this lone source as confirmation is that Hand in Hand seems to have a pretty decent Internet presence in terms of available info about the company, its principals, and its other film offerings. Still, figured it was worth mentioning the possible connection.

I'm glad I'm not the only one here who's fascinated by this film. It has more or less become my new lost-media white whale after Rapsittie and "Ready 'n' Steady" were found.

Anyway, a guy named Phil Hall, a writer for a film magazine called Film Threat, commented on this blog post back in 2014, saying that he has dug up a lot of information about Him that was not known before (including info on the director Ed D. Louie!) and that he is going to include this new information in a book about lost films. It seems he published the book this past July. Here is the Amazon page for it. Apparently, there's an entire chapter dedicated to Him. Perhaps there's something in there that could help with the search?

The Amazon link you gave has a preview of the book, including the table of contents. Him is covered as part of the book's fifth chapter: "In Search of Ten Unique Sound Era Films". The end of its treatment (page 129) is also part of the preview. Most of that preview page is recounting the details of / from the Captain Obscurity blog post, but there is this sentence to provide a frustrating glimmer of hope that this search, however improbable, isn't impossible:

Is this how the powerpuff villaim HIM came to be?

I'm in shock at this rn LMAO
where would we even begin with this..

I found a lead
www.reddit.com/r/Lost_Films/comments/5kbja5/i_filed_through_an_abandoned_film_warehouse_nsfw/