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Untapped slash sources

This is a list of movies and TV shows that aren't usually slashed but should be. If they have been slashed, let us know.

Movies
  • Cruel Intentions
    Think about it. Sebastian/Catherine, Catherine/Cecile, Sebastian/Cecile, Sebastian/that Dawson's Creek guy, Dawson's Creek guy/Greg, Greg/Sebastian, Sebastian/his shrink, Sebastian/Ronald, etc. etc. (Afterword: Little Alex mailed us to say that she tapped it. It's called Definitions of Friendship and features Sebastian Valmont and Blaine Tuttle, aka Dawson's Creek guy.)
  • Dazed and Confused
    Was I the only one who noticed the tension between Mitch Kramer and Randall "Pink" Floyd? The high school initiation concept alone is enough inspiration for at least three stories.
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley
    Imagine! Steve Jobs and Bill Gates! Better yet, imagine Noah Wyle and Anthony Michael Hall. (Afterword: Turns out this one has been done at Jezebel's Infamy site.)
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    Because I want to see Adam and Tick together, once and for all.
  • My Own Private Idaho
    Because I want to see Mike and Scott together, once and for all.
  • American Pie
    A bunch of testosterone-ridden teenage boys are dying to get laid. When I saw this movie, I actually thought it was heading in that direction.
  • Go
    Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr play lovers. The thought of that makes me snicker like Beavis. It also stars the lovely Nathan Bexton.
  • Nowhere
    Speaking of Nathan Bexton, who else was on the edge of their seat when he and James Duval were in bed together? Instead of sex, one of them turns into a giant bug. What a rip off. Which leads us to....
  • The Doom Generation
    ...which is self explanatory. (Afterword: Brendan mailed us to tell us that he wrote a piece of Nowhere slash. It's a crossover with Playing by Heart. It's called Bodily Fluids.)


TV Shows
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
    Something has to be wrong with those guys. They can't seem to hang onto a relationship. I think they're just getting it on behind the scenes. David Silver has always been a bit of a wonder.
  • Melrose Place
    It's off the air, but since when has that stopped slashers? I think Doug Savant's character deserved a better sex life. I would like to see him corrupt the whole block. Billy the writer would be ideal.
  • Days of Our Lives
    Because all of the women on that show are psycho, and one was even possessed. What's a guy to do?
  • Dharma and Greg
    Because Greg needs a night away from the flaky granola chick. (Jenna Elfman fans on line one.)


If you think of any, let us know. We will update this as inspiration allows.


Submitted suggestions...


"Shawshank Redemption. You have Andy (Tim Robbins) and Red (Morgan Freeman), friends in prison for almost 20 years. The tenderness and love between these men is so strong and so beautiful. If you aren't a tad teary at the end, you aren't human. This is one of the slashiest and romantic movies I've ever seen." -courtesy of Woodinat


"Gattaca, no doubt about it. Jude Law and Ethan Hawke's characters were so obviously ready to fall head over heels. (Forget that Uma chick.) Besides, they already shared the same home; Jude's character got carried around like a bride across the threshold by Ethan's, Jude's shared his body fluids . . . come on!" -courtesy of Kim
(Afterword: Katherine F., who we have been erroneously referring to as "Purity," has a Gattaca story in the "others" section of her web site. Peja, the mailing list queen responsible for The Wonderful World of Make Believe, now has a Gattaca list.)


"'The 13th Warrior.' All those long looks Ahmed was casting in Buliwyf's direction....

"The television series called 'Tour of Duty.' It's set in Vietnam; Lieutenant Goldman and Sergeant Anderson *definitely* have slash chemistry perking." -courtesy of Maggie


"Scots actors Robert Carlyle played a wonderfully atypical gay guy in Antonia Bird's film PRIEST (he was the one said titular cleric risked his soul by hopping into bed with). He was equally convincing as the all-too-het head stripper in THE FULL MONTY, and that crazy cunt Begbie in TRAINSPOTTING. He's a li'l guy who can seem alternately geeky, feral, dapper and soulful--full of pure energy and wiry, consuming strength. So...

"...may I hereby nominate him as prime slash material for two of his most recent films/roles? Specifically Bird's first American production, RAVENOUS--in which he plays an 1800's (circa the Donner Party) Scots immigrant cannibal obsessed with Manifest Destiny, who often seems to be casting an *extremely* hungry eye on equally cute, equally small, utterly angst-ridden fellow cannibal Guy Pearce--and Jake Scott's PLUNKETT & MACLEANE, which has Carlyle as a 1700's lower-class "bit of rough" highwayman who teams up with posh-but-poor Jonny Lee Miller. And sure, Miller has this weird thang goin' on with Liv Tyler throughout, but when's that ever stopped a couple of partners from getting down?" -courtesy of Gemma


"Hill Street Blues... Just think of the possibilities!" -courtesy of Gail


"I find the Matrix infinitely slashable. There's always the chance of a threesome, or, Neo dumping Trinity." -courtesy of Alex (Afterword: Peja, the mailing list queen, has also started a list for Matrix slash.)


"How about 'Con Air' for a slashable movie? Those smoldering looks Poe and Larkin were exchanging in the airplane hanger...whoo hoo! 'Course, I do have a major soft spot for Cage and Cusack, so maybe I'm biased :)" -courtesy of Alyssa


"Jareth from the Labyrinth. I know, it would have to be a crossover, but still! The man was born to be slashed. Thinking of it, every Bowie character ever. Well, almost." - courtesy of Lizz


"This evening I decided to take a break, and watch a movie... so I went through my collection of tapes, watched for almost two hours, and now I have this strange idea of Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford...

"Yep. I'm talking about 'The Fugitive'... *sigh* I don't know what came over me. I love Han Solo doing all sorts of things to Luke Skywalker; but well, in said movie the actor is a little bit older... 'Sides, I don't like Jones' looks, and normally, there's at least one young guy in the pairings I read.

"Still - I thought the way Gerad is chasing after Kimble is close to obsession. And then there was this last scene when Gerad takes Richard's handcuffs off... and I love the way Richard looks at him. But that might be just me; I could watch Harrison Ford movies all day and drool about what he does with his eyes and mouth... I know I'm only 19, but I still want that guy... *sigh*" - courtesy of Anty


"'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.' Ever since I've become a total slashaholic in 1999, I wanted somebody to write about Robin (Kevin Costner) and Will (Christian Slater). Who cares they have the same father... *sweatdrop* You know, this is really strange - I get squicked by things that most other people wouldn't even consider kinky, but such major things like underage stuff, non- con and incest are perfectly fine. *sigh*

"Anyway, if you've seen the movie (I suppose so, I mean, it's ten years old), you'll remember that somewhere in the last minutes of the movie, when Will comes back to Robin, the latter asks: 'Did I wrong you in another life, Will Scarlet? Where does this intolerable hatred for me come from?' And then Will tells him that he's his brother and starts to cry, and Robin takes Will's face in his hands, and it's SO slashy!! *swoon* Now we only need to get rid of Marian." - also courtesy of Anty


"A movie that I'd really like to see slashed is 'The Man In The Iron Mask'... I mean, there are all those Musketeers and soldiers, and no female lead. We have that foster father/child relationship between Athos (John Malkovich) and Philippe (Leonardo DiCaprio) - Athos' son is dead, and Philippe's twin brother is the one responsible - that'd make really nice angst, because whenever he looks at him - you get the idea...

"Louis XIV (also Leonardo DiCaprio) sleeps his way through all the girls in the palace; but what if he got bored with girls someday and wanted to try out a guy? He might order D'Artagnan to do 'the job' (Louis never asks, he only orders), who is oh-so- loyal and does everything what his king demands - that's because he's Louis' father, but of course he can't tell him.

"Well, and since I'm a lot into twincest - what about Louis/Philippe? This could be non-conish (when Louis is still king), or some sort of reconciliation (after Philippe has taken Louis' place, and the latter one has become a better person after a few years in the Bastille)." - also courtesy of Anty

And later, in our guestbook: "Dog House Press here in England have a series of excellent Gerard/Kimble zines including 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy' which is one of the best pieces of slash fiction ever written. These are available only as print zines and not online, unfortunately, but they are far, far too good to be ignored."



"Well, I found yet another untapped source. *Sweatdrop* I mean, it's not like the slash potential is totally obvious in those movies (they aren't slashy at all...), but a good writer could probably do something about that. It's just that I think that Marty McFly - swooningly portrayed by Michael J. Fox - from the Back to the Future Trilogy would make a VERY nice Pushy Bottom (TM)...

The only question is who'd be a potential top for him... *scratches head* A twenty-year-old Doc Brown? An older Doc Brown? His dad's younger self? ... ~Biff~??" - courtesty of Anty, who we love