“Few movies set the scene with such succinct clarity as ‘Test’ from writer (and lead) Brock Yurich and director Sam McConnell. Here, we watch as a handsome and very muscled man, wearing nothing but a cock sock, is rollered in fake tan by an older woman while singing a hymn and giggling” 

This is how Queerguru’s David Allen’s 5-star review started on TEST and went on to literally rave about this new movie: so much so that we jumped at the chance to sit down with the two creatives when they screened their film at the Provincetown International Film Festival.  

Eddie (Brock Yurich) is an amateur competitive bodybuilder who lives with his mother, Joanne (Tammy Blanchard), in a state of codependency. He divides his time between the gym, work and church, but neither Eddie nor his mother are doing particularly well; she’s a functioning alcoholic selling make-up to her friends, and he works in a restaurant to pay the bills with a more profitable side hustle as a cam model.

Joanne is also Eddie’s well-meaning de facto trainer, but she’s holding him back with amateur advice and undermining his standing with the contest judges with her overzealous outbursts.  He’s also getting his steroids from the local drug dealer with no plan in place to move forward in achieving his dream of earning a pro card to take him to the next level.

It all makes for compelling viewing, an opinion shared by Provincetown audiences who voted it as the Best Narrative Feature of the Festival.  Both Brock and Sam sat down to talk with Queerguru before they jetted off for the next step of the film’s journey: screening at Frameline San Francisco’s LGBTQ Film Festival