Actors: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Burkhard Driest, Gunther Kaufmann, Laurent Malet.You can find Cruising on Amazon using this link He fits the victims' profiles: dark hair, dark complexion, dark eyes.Ĭruising tells the story of his adventures and misadventures in this small subculture of gay society. The victims are all homosexual men known to be part of the "Leather" and BDSM scene in NY city so Burns, in "deep cover", must pretend to be a gay member of the leather community in order to attract the killer.
Steve Burns, a "hip" good looking officer, is recruited by Captain Edelson of the NYPD Homicide Unit to search "undercovered" for the serial killer. The title is a pun with a double meaning since "cruising" can describe both police officers on patrol and looking for sex.Ĭruising is the fictional account of a series of gruesome killings in modern-day New York City. The film is a free version of the homonymous Novel, by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, and it's about a serial killer targeting gay men, in particular those associated with the leather scene.