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Home Reviews Features Contests Editorials Top 10 Lists Retrospectives B-Sides Inside Horror Tip of the Scalpel Cold Spots Last Toys on the Left Hard-Boiled Horror Tales Motion Picture Purgatory Forums Podcasts Video EVILShop Close Home Motion Picture Purgatory: Auto Focus Auto Focus Greg Kinnear Paul Schrader Rick Trembles' Motion Picture Purgatory Willem Dafoe Tweet By The Woman In Black November 3rd, 2009 This week Trembles takes us a little off the beaten path into a true tale of sex addiction and murder: Paul Schrader's 2002 Auto Focus starring Greg Kinnear as TV star Bob Crane and Willem Dafoe as his video technician buddy John Carpenter (nope, not director John Carpenter of Halloween fame, but rather a sleazy swinger who gets credit for turning Crane into a sex addict). For those unfamiliar with the story, Crane, star of 1960's TV series "Hogan's Heroes", dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women and videotaping his exploits with Carpenter's help. He was murdered in a Scottsdale, Arizona, motel room in 1978, a crime that remains officially unsolved to this day. "A day without sex is a day wasted" -actual tagline Discuss Motion Picture Purgatory in the Dread Central forums! Submitted by The Woman In Black on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:47pm Login or register to post comments Recent Headlines Preview of and a Clip from Summit's Warm Bodies Put in Storage Until 2013 The Mask of Red Death Proves to be Infectious in Berlin Arc Entertainment Goes to Hell with Roland Emmerich Epic to Distribute V/H/S Abroad Have a Close Encounter with the Aliens: Colonial Marines Box Art Legion Headed to the TV Screen Three New Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Clips Get All Fired Up New Details Explain What Will Happen to The Last of Us Sales One-Sheet Debut - Replicas <!-- 300x250 ros --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2421632652865552"; /* MediumRectangle */ google_ad_slot = "7522132661"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <!-- END AD TAG --> NEXT STORY See My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Uncut Now If you missed My Super Psycho Sweet 16 (review here) on MTV, now’s your chance to check it out uncut. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Aliens: Colonial Marines American Horror Story Anarchy Reigns Battleship Bedlam Breaking Dawn Cabin in the Woods Chillerama Chronicle Clash of the Titans 2 Dark Shadows Dark Souls Dead Rising 2 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Final Destination 5 Hostel Part III Dexter Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengance Gone Grimm Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters House Of The Dead: Overkill Jurassic Park: The Game Neverdead Once Upon A Time Paranormal Activity 3 Piranha 3DD Prometheus Prototype 2 Rise of Nightmares Rise of the Planet of the Apes Saint Nick Silent Hill Stephen King’s Bag of Bones Sundance 2012 Supernatural Terra Nova The Darkest Hour The Devil Inside The Divide The Grey The Hunger Games The Innkeepers The Raven The River The Secret Circle The Vampire Diaries The Walking Dead The Wolf Gift The Woman In Black Tucker And Dale Vs Evil	<!-- 300x250 ros --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2421632652865552"; /* MediumRectangle / google_ad_slot = "7522132661"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <!-- END AD TAG --> User login Username: Password: * Create new account Request new password You might also like: Recent Reviews Gotham City Imposters (Video Game) End Night (Video Game) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) Resident Evil Revelations (Video Game) Darkness II, The (Video Game) Pink Sock (Short, 2011) What Fears Become: An Anthology from The Horror Zine (Book) Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (Book) Super Shark (2011) Chronicle (2012) Recent comments Perhaps I should have gone 35 sec ago You sure about that? I'm 19 min 34 sec ago True. But Romero redefined 22 min 54 sec ago Or parents could save their 1 hour 22 min ago Brilliant! bring it on :) 2 hours 19 min ago this could be Sooper cool! 2 hours 26 min ago Some really good stuff here. 2 hours 32 min ago A-fucking Men! LOL ;) 2 hours 33 min ago I do love George and don't 2 hours 52 min ago Of all the projects Gans has 5 hours 19 sec ago