The House of Morecock
Encyclopedia
The House of Morecock is a gay
pornographic
adult cartoon
created though computer
-generated animation. It was the first ever American made gay adult animation. It was created by Joe Phillips
, a comic book artist and freelance illustrator who has created art for companies such as DC Comics
, Dark Horse Comics
and Bud Lite. This is Phillips' first DVD movie, after the first release of Phuckamon, a second unrelated film titled Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm
was released in late 2006 and a sequel was announced in August 2008.
goings on. The stories always end with Jonas engaged in gay sex.
Due to its initial success, Phillips
followed up the original episode with a complete set of shorts, all featuring Jonas in various scary situations which always subsequently turn sexual. Following their popularity online, the episodes were released on DVD
in 2001 under the full title The House of Morecock: The Animated Misadventures of Jonas Morecock. In 2002, the DVD won a GayVN Award
. TLAvideo.com lists the film as one of its best selling DVD titles ever. http://www.tlavideo.com/details/product_details.cfm?v=2&sn=1&id=210823
In 2005, following on the success of the DVD, two sets of comic strip books were released, titled Tales From The House Of Morecock and Tales From The House Of Morecock Vol. 2 along with a set of postcards feauting the titular character. The series is considered pornography, but its content is light hearted and is depicted in short skit
s. It is only considered 'Hardcore' because of graphic gay sex scenes. The stories are always comic and are intended to entertain as much as they are to arouse.
s. The two guys are obviously a gay couple. They then find on television, The House of Morecock and the viewer then watches what the twosome can see on their TV. We are then introduced to Jonas Morecock, and we then follow him on a series of adventures, including meeting Big Foot, a chance encounter with a Merman
and being face to face with the Loch Ness Monster
. All of the situations end up with Jonas having sex with at least one other guy.
The film parodies a lot of mainstream television and films including The Little Mermaid
, The Blair Witch Project
, Godzilla
, The X-Files
, Titanic
, Psycho
and Jaws
. There are a total of ten episodes contained on the DVD, each featuring a different story involving Jonas.
which means it can only be sold in licenced sex shops. In order to obtain the R18 rating, certain shots had to be cut, in total 1m 34s was removed from the original US version of the film http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/C8864D017AD670C2802570730069FC58?OpenDocument. The uncut and unrated version is still available in the USA.
In an online only short movie the audience is introduced to Justin Morecock, the younger brother to Jonas, in a tale called Goldilocks and the Three Bears in which Justin has a four-way orgy
with three Bears
. Justin Morecock only appears in this one short flash
animation and has not been mentioned since. Visually, his appearance is almost exactly the same as Jonas, except that Justin has a middle-parting haircut.
was released on the official Jonas Morecock MySpace
page for a sequel to The House of Morecock entitled The House of Morecock II: Morecock. The 30 second trailer showcased Jonas Morecock in bed with a trio of supernatural characters. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41441290 This sequel is not yet known to be released.
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
pornographic
Pornography
Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...
adult cartoon
Adult animation
Adult animation is a term used to describe animation that is targeted at adults. Animated films and television shows may be considered adult for a number of reasons. Some productions are noted for experimental storytelling and animation techniques, or sophisticated storytelling...
created though computer
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
-generated animation. It was the first ever American made gay adult animation. It was created by Joe Phillips
Joe Phillips
Joe Phillips is an American artist, known for his mainstream comic book art and for his work depicting his views of gay life. He currently lives in San Diego, California.-Early Years and Comic Work:...
, a comic book artist and freelance illustrator who has created art for companies such as DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
, Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
and Bud Lite. This is Phillips' first DVD movie, after the first release of Phuckamon, a second unrelated film titled Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm
Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm
Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm is an unrated superhero-pornographic 3D animated film created by Joe Phillips, which was released in 2006. It was nominated for a GayVN Award...
was released in late 2006 and a sequel was announced in August 2008.
Overview
The House of Morecock debuted in 1999 on the gay porn website AbsolutelyMale, it was originally a short Flash animation featuring Jonas Morecock, a blonde hair, blue eyed gay twenty-something who investigates mysterious or supernaturalSupernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...
goings on. The stories always end with Jonas engaged in gay sex.
Due to its initial success, Phillips
Joe Phillips
Joe Phillips is an American artist, known for his mainstream comic book art and for his work depicting his views of gay life. He currently lives in San Diego, California.-Early Years and Comic Work:...
followed up the original episode with a complete set of shorts, all featuring Jonas in various scary situations which always subsequently turn sexual. Following their popularity online, the episodes were released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
in 2001 under the full title The House of Morecock: The Animated Misadventures of Jonas Morecock. In 2002, the DVD won a GayVN Award
GayVN Awards
The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998.The award recipients...
. TLAvideo.com lists the film as one of its best selling DVD titles ever. http://www.tlavideo.com/details/product_details.cfm?v=2&sn=1&id=210823
In 2005, following on the success of the DVD, two sets of comic strip books were released, titled Tales From The House Of Morecock and Tales From The House Of Morecock Vol. 2 along with a set of postcards feauting the titular character. The series is considered pornography, but its content is light hearted and is depicted in short skit
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
s. It is only considered 'Hardcore' because of graphic gay sex scenes. The stories are always comic and are intended to entertain as much as they are to arouse.
Plot
The movie starts off with the live action sequence of two real life guys lying in bed watching Saturday morning cartoonSaturday morning cartoon
A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming that has typically been scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the present; the genre's peak in popularity mostly ended in the 1990s while the popularity of...
s. The two guys are obviously a gay couple. They then find on television, The House of Morecock and the viewer then watches what the twosome can see on their TV. We are then introduced to Jonas Morecock, and we then follow him on a series of adventures, including meeting Big Foot, a chance encounter with a Merman
Merman
Mermen are mythical male equivalents of mermaids – legendary creatures who have the form of a human from the waist up and are fish-like from the waist down.-Mythology:...
and being face to face with the Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next....
. All of the situations end up with Jonas having sex with at least one other guy.
The film parodies a lot of mainstream television and films including The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was originally released to theaters on November 14, 1989 and is the twenty-eighth film in...
, The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film pieced together from amateur footage. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three student filmmakers The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film pieced together from amateur...
, Godzilla
Godzilla
is a daikaijū, a Japanese movie monster, first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games,...
, The X-Files
The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction television series and a part of The X-Files franchise, created by screenwriter Chris Carter. The program originally aired from to . The show was a hit for the Fox network, and its characters and slogans became popular culture touchstones in the 1990s...
, Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
, Psycho
Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch...
and Jaws
Jaws (film)
Jaws is a 1975 American horror-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach,...
. There are a total of ten episodes contained on the DVD, each featuring a different story involving Jonas.
Cast
- CP Smith as Jonas Morecock
- Jasen Rodriguez as Jonas Morecock
- Joe Phillips as Announcer / Flotilla De Barge
- Brandon Colt as Additional Voices
- Craig Hamilton as Additional Voices
- Lex Wolfcraft as Additional Voices
- Mike Guadagno as Additional Voices
- Ron McFee as Additional Voices
- Alex Carson as Additional Voices
Reception & Reviews
The House of Morecock was widely praised upon its release http://www.10percent.com/shopping_cart/products/index.cfm?product_id=100482&adult_verification=1. IN TOUCH magazine said it was an "original work that remains innocent even at its most explicit... a sexy and humorous collection"http://www.10percent.com/shopping_cart/products/index.cfm?product_id=100482&adult_verification=1. Out Front Colorado stated "[It] sets new trends in exotic animation" http://www.10percent.com/shopping_cart/products/index.cfm?product_id=100482&adult_verification=1. The Virginia Gayzette remarks "Full of wit and humor. Breaks new ground. Morecock is destined to become a collectiblehttp://www.10percent.com/shopping_cart/products/index.cfm?product_id=100482&adult_verification=1. Finally TLA Video said "Wildly imaginative! The drawings are excellent" http://www.10percent.com/shopping_cart/products/index.cfm?product_id=100482&adult_verification=1.Rating
In the United States, Morecock is unrated which means it does not need to pass MPAA approval. In the United Kingdom, the film is rated R18R18 certificate
The R18 certificate represents a film or video classification given by the British Board of Film Classification . It is intended to provide a classification for works that are within British obscenity laws, but exceed what the BBFC considers acceptable for its 18 certificate...
which means it can only be sold in licenced sex shops. In order to obtain the R18 rating, certain shots had to be cut, in total 1m 34s was removed from the original US version of the film http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/C8864D017AD670C2802570730069FC58?OpenDocument. The uncut and unrated version is still available in the USA.
In Other Media
In addition to the short cartoons, a spin off set of books were created in 2005 by Joe Phillips. The titles of which are:-
- Tales From The House Of Morecock (Released June 2005)
- The House Of Morecock (Postcard Book) (Released August 2005)
- Tales From The House Of Morecock, Vol 2 (Released September 2005)
In an online only short movie the audience is introduced to Justin Morecock, the younger brother to Jonas, in a tale called Goldilocks and the Three Bears in which Justin has a four-way orgy
Orgy
In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests engage in promiscuous or multifarious sexual activity or group sex. An orgy is similar to debauchery, which refers to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures....
with three Bears
Bear community
"Bear" is a LGBT slang term that refers to members of a subculture in the homosexual and bisexual male communities and to an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes, and a culture-specific identity...
. Justin Morecock only appears in this one short flash
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
animation and has not been mentioned since. Visually, his appearance is almost exactly the same as Jonas, except that Justin has a middle-parting haircut.
Sequel
On August 24, 2008 a teaser trailerTeaser trailer
A teaser campaign is an advertising campaign which typically consists of a series of small, cryptic, challenging advertisements that anticipate a larger, full-blown campaign for a product launch or otherwise important event. These advertisements are called "teasers" or "teaser ads"...
was released on the official Jonas Morecock MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
page for a sequel to The House of Morecock entitled The House of Morecock II: Morecock. The 30 second trailer showcased Jonas Morecock in bed with a trio of supernatural characters. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41441290 This sequel is not yet known to be released.