Leans Traditional
7.3
Cattle Mutilation
(1983)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Sherman Acres (1992)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
A drama in six episodes involving psychological breakdowns, marital showdowns, and messy obsessions. The characters include a wayward priest, a promiscuous school-teacher and her proctologist husband, teenage thrill killers, and an obsession-driven psychotherapist with an enema bag. Lots of special effects, as it moves quickly from one major crisis to another.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Overview
A drama in six episodes involving psychological breakdowns, marital showdowns, and messy obsessions. The characters include a wayward priest, a promiscuous school-teacher and her proctologist husband, teenage thrill killers, and an obsession-driven psychotherapist with an enema bag. Lots of special effects, as it moves quickly from one major crisis to another.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Sherman Acres is rated 0 because its central subject matter focuses on personal and interpersonal melodrama, camp aesthetics, and the absurdities of human existence, rather than engaging with explicit political issues or promoting a specific ideological solution.
This film features casting that aligns with traditional demographics, reflecting the director's personal circle without explicit efforts toward diversity or race/gender swaps for traditionally white roles. The narrative focuses on personal melodrama and genre parody, rather than engaging in explicit critiques of traditional identities or centering themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Secondary
Sherman Acres offers an affirming portrayal of LGBTQ+ themes through its uninhibited, campy, and experimental style. It depicts queer desires and relationships as natural elements of its characters' lives, celebrating them without judgment or condemnation.
The film, through its satirical and often grotesque portrayal of its characters' melodramatic lives, depicts individuals who are nominally Christian but whose actions and pronouncements are frequently hypocritical or superficial. The narrative's comedic lens highlights these human flaws within a Christian cultural context, without offering any counterbalancing portrayal of sincere faith or positive religious practice, thereby implicitly critiquing the superficiality or hypocrisy of such adherence.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Sherman Acres is an original experimental film by George Kuchar, not an adaptation of existing source material or a depiction of historical figures. Therefore, there are no pre-established characters whose gender could have been altered.
The film "Sherman Acres" (1992) is an original work by George Kuchar, not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established characters. Therefore, there are no legacy characters whose race could have been canonically or historically defined prior to this film, making a race swap impossible by definition.
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