GAYLETTER

An abusive mother, throwback “Crazy Eddie” fan commercials from the 80s, and a prostitute sporting magic, multicolored knee highs — and that’s only in the first 3 minutes of ‘Exorsocks,’ David LaChapelle’s new short film for Happy Socks. The Swedish hosiery outlet gave the provocative photographer license to do whatever he wanted for the ad, and the result is just about what you’d expect: a bizarro journey through sexuality, socks, and dance, filtered through LaChapelle’s uniquely demented vision of camp and gore.

The 10-minute clip, drawing inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Red Shoes, revolves around a down-on-her-luck prostitute who finds a mysterious pair of Happy Socks’ polychromatic knee highs that give her the insatiable urge to pirouette her problems away in an incredible, Girl Talk-soundtracked dance number. Of course, this being LaChapelle’s particular brand of candy-colored insanity, the dancing quickly becomes brutal, and our unlikely heroine finds a grisly, super-NSFW end to the uncontrollable dancing.

Check out the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaAypvMmno