No Filter: These Actors Were Really Getting Intimate On Film!

Cruising (1980)

Al Pacino stars in this film about a serial killer who targets gay men. Cruising features murder scenes that are cut with explicit footage of men making love. The film’s sets were also liberally peppered with phallic symbols. The movie was widely dismissed for being homophobic.

Pacino quickly issued a statement in which he said he would never intentionally do anything to harm the gay community. Tragically, one of the gay bars featured in the film was the setting of an attack conducted by a man with a sub-machine gun. Two of the bar’s patrons were killed and 12 other people were wounded.