Dante's Cove Reviews

• Dark Shadows meets Queer As Folk meets Melrose Place

  
  By A3JG52SNWRIU48 on 2006-06-17
  Dante's Cove is set in a small town on an mysterious island.The residents of The Hotel Dante are gay,bi.lesbian and straight....and are all young and gorgeous.
  They are plunged into a world full of intrigue,secrets and romance,when the towns sinister supernatural past comes to life.
  I saw these first 2 episodes when they aired and it is pretty much a gothic soap transported to today.A fun show with enough storyline to be entertaining with a gorgeous cast showing a lot of bare skin to enjoy.
  In a nutshell,about 100 years ago a sorceress named Grace, played by Tracy Scoggins (anyone remember her from the Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys?)finds out her one true love is gay and like any demon will do,seeks revenge.She imprisons Ambrosius and he is held captive until modern times when he is accidentally released from his chains by a kiss from Kevin,the hotels newest resident.Now the past and the present collide as Grace and Ambrosius continue their feud and the residents of the hotel pay the price.True love battles to overcome the forces of evil and Kevin may be the first victim.
  Will Kevin find true love with Toby?or will Ambrosius claim Kevin for himself?
  Will good triumph over evil?or will Grace have her final revenge?
  At least now I can watch the rest of the series once it airs in september and maybe I'll find out.
  
  

• Silly, Silly, Silly...but kind of fun

  
  By A27H9DOUGY9FOS on 2006-09-16
  Let's start out by saying that we all what this is, and we know who the target audience is. I can't say that I think it would appeal too greatly to viewers outside of that demographic. Why? To be perfectly honest, it just isn't very good--which doesn't mean it doesn't have some charm.
  
  This is a perfectly harmless gothic soap opera in two episodes (I agree with others who think this really doesn't constitute a season). The plot is seviceable, but we've seen it before. The acting is atrocious. For my money, only Tracy Scoggins--in a deliriously over-the-top performance-- sets the right mood for this hokum. The other actors are certainly attractive, and most importantly, shown in various states of undress. But they are a little flat in their earnestness. Camp played as camp might have elevated this show--then maybe some of the laughs could have been intentional.
  
  Sounds like I hate it, huh? Actually, it was just what I'd expect and I'd recommend it it provisionally. It was just loopy enough, had plenty of eye candy and never seriously tried to represent "real" people. I enjoyed myself, but it's instantly forgettable. But there are worse ways to spend a few hours. KGHarris, 9/06.
  
  

• Even Eye Candy Can Get Stale

  
  By A328S9RN3U5M68 on 2006-09-25
  DANTE'S COVE is a two disc DVD release of a TV series for Here! TV that had everyone on the waiting list to see just how far the 'new television' market would/could go. Now that the mystery is over with the public release of the DVDs, the comments and responses are bound to be mixed: there are those who whoop that gay themed and photographed stories are finally on television, and there are those who will wonder why a series could make it through the year with little to no storyline and a production that is essentially soft porn - for both men and women!
  
  The 'plot' is based on the traditional haunted house with a mysterious history dating back to 1840: the 'story' revolves around the folk who inhabit the house cum hotel in present day time and the aftershocks of lifting the door off the secrets hidden with the subsequent effects of the 'curse' on the inhabitants. Sounds like a 'been there, done that' bit? Well, it is. The difference lies in the fact that the main characters are gay and the hotel inhabitants are pretty guys and gals who spend the majority of their time topless, swimming or en flagrante.
  
  The cast is attractive (and we see a LOT of them!) but the lack of plausible story and the mercilessly poor writing and quality of acting keep the show grounded. This is a film for a special audience and one that would benefit from watching it with sound turned off. Maybe next season will improve....Grady Harp, September 06
  
  

• "Season" ???

  
  By A2XA8FC1WH2QEZ on 2006-08-17
  Since when is two episodes a "season"?
  
  Fortunately, the second part redeems it; the first part is about half softcore porn (going beyond QAF even), and the writing is pretty rough, as is some of the acting. The second part improved just about everywhere, though some of the writing and acting still leaves a little to be desired. It actually gets gripping and leaves me wanting more, and I certainly don't mind seeing lots of bare chested hunks, especially Gregory Michael! I just wish they'd make up their mind: one minute, they're showing a sex scene out of a soft core porn video, and the next they have the actors contorted in a gruesomely unnatural position in order to avoid showing a body part that they already had on camera early on in the first episode. If they shot it naturally, even though we'd see "everything", the scene would still be far less sexual than the one that preceded it, and would flow much better.
  
  Anyway, if it continues to improve at the rate the second episode did over the first one, I'm looking forward to seeing it continue. Let's just not try to pretend that two episodes is a "season"...
  
  

• A Definite Guilty Pleasure

  
  By A3SLB2AC9XEQ4 on 2006-08-26
  Dante's Cove is definitely a guilty pleasure - one that you would not admit that you watch but you do. Like other people are saying, it is a mix of Melrose Place (stealing of boyfriend, the manipulation, revenge and of course, the sex)meets Dark Shadow (witches, cults, curses) meets Queer as Folk (the two lead characters are gay, with lesbians, bisexuals and, of course, straight).
  There are positive things about Dante's Cove as well as negative. The storyline for me is good - very unique as I might say - Grace and Ambrosius are lovers getting married until Grace saw Ambrosius having sex with a man. Scorned, she prisoned Ambrosius and cursed him until a kiss of a man will set him free (sounds like Charmed too me). Two hundred years later, lovers Kevin and Toby try to make their relationship work. Toby moved to Dante's Cove, with Kevin following him later. Things are turning great until Kevin hears voices coming from the basement of Hotel Dante - only to find Ambrosius still chained and old. After Kevin freed Ambrosius from his prison (turning him young again), Ambrosius wants Kevin to be his. Not only the plot is about the relationship of Toby and Kevin, but everything around them - supernatural things happening around the Hotel and they got stuck in the middle.
  The negative about Dante's Cove is the script and acting. The script on the first part, I find, good but not that good. The second part redeemed it. The acting for me is good, not the best but good. Some over act too much, some do it just fine.
  
  The sex scenes in Dante's Cove is very hot, very steamy, and explicit. And I think it is way better than the sex scenes in Queer as Folk. In the first part alone, we have 6 sex scenes - my favorite being Toby and Kevin at Hotel Dante.
  
  So, over-all, I will give the show 4 stars. If you are into campy, trashy, over-the-top show. This is for you.
  
  
• Badly acted etc. but also quite unique and strangely compelling!
  By A2EEUQ81DTY7G3 on 2006-10-08
  In 1840 the small seaside town of Dante's Cove was awash in strange goings on. Grace Neville (Traci Scoggins) is about to be married to a young Ambrosius (William Gregory Lee). Although she's getting on in years, Grace is now sure she's finally met the man that she wants to settle down with. Is Ambrosius, however, really all that he appears or does he just want Grace for her money?
  
  One afternoon, after visiting him, Grace realizes that she's forgotten her gloves, so she returns to his house only to find her suitor caught up in a hot and passionate session with his hunky and studly young butler. Shocked, she screams at them both, calling them deviant and disgusting vowing to make them both pay for their betrayal.
  
  For Grace, it's immediately hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Furious and determined to seek revenge, she uses her supernatural and mystical powers to instantly burn her fiancé's boy toy with her very eyes - you actually see him frothing at the mouth - and then entombs her beau in an SM/dungeon beneath the Hotel Dante, placing an eternal curse on him.
  
  Ambrosius is destined to spend perpetuity, shackled to chains. The only way the curse can be broken is if some virile male kisses him and breaks the spell. Meanwhile, in the present day, the young Toby (Charlie David) is living at Dante Cove when he invites his gorgeous lover Kevin (Gregory Michael) to spend some time with him.
  
  Kevin and Toby are having problems. Although it looks as though they're having great sex, it seems Kevin's a bit of a closet case and is having trouble coming out to his homophobic parents, who have cottoned on the fact that Kevin is having an affair with Toby. After some domestic abuse, Kevin escapes to Dante's Cove, a little Key West-style hamlet featuring an inn of the same name where Toby bartends.
  
  Within minutes of arriving, Kevin meets the eclectic cast of sexy characters, there's Van, a gothic lesbian, Amber a lesbian party girl, and totally gay muscle stud Adam, the resident boy toy. But it is the ghost of Ambrosius that Kevin begins to hear as Toby's hunky presence begins to release a menacing force from the hotel's past. Grace, ageless and still very beautiful, has survived, and is obsessed with getting together with her former paramour.
  
  As the evil begins to spread in the form of a rejuvenated grace, Kevin and Adam and the rest of the sexy inhabitants of Dante's Cove find themselves literally fighting for their lives. The story in Dante's Cove is really just an excuse to tie together various scenes of what I call soft-core gay and lesbian "boutique" sex. Kevin and Toby spend most of their time engaged man-on-man action, which is mostly, made up of hazy images of flesh seen through the haze of steam and tastefully situated candles.
  
  Dante's Cove gravitates between the jaw-dropping awful and ludicrous guilty fun. There have been a lot of B-grade actresses over the past few years that seem to be making a career out of appearing in low budget gay material - Jill St. John, Jacqueline Bisset, and Morgan Fairchild, but now Traci Scoggins can add herself to the list. Although she's by far the best actor in this series, her performance still vacillates between mostly watch-able to appallingly trite and melodramatic.
  
  Most of the male cast don't fair much better, babbling their lines until the next nude scenes which aren't really that sexy or even that titillating. Although done on the cheap, the series looks mostly well made - perhaps with a bit more money they could get a better scriptwriter and employ better visual effects. The cast is very attractive of course both in the nude and fully clothed. In the end, this is trashy television at it's best, truly awful but also quite compelling, Mike Leonard October 06.
  
  
  
• Bad
  By A368JY5S05FJGM on 2006-09-27
  I must say the positive reviews here fooled me. I expected much more fun. I would have loved a real blend of soap opera and (even cheap) fantastique. But this doesn't even make the grade as 'so bad it's good' fun, at least for me. Well, maybe the first episode, but the second is just very boring.
  Yes, there is eye-candy in a soft porn kind of way, but not in the way of real cinematography (very crude camera blocking) or production design (the hospital set is awful and as for the rest, they're ok but too few). And it's just too badly written. There's some bad acting too, but that doesn't really hurt this kind of movies.
  The second episode is less soft porn and more fantasy and plot-driven, but having to play every scene in the one same street and two or three poorly dressed sets, makes the characters eternally go back and forth between them, which gets tiresome pretty quick and also doesn't allow for really fluid plot development. Also fx or action scenes are sorely lacking. This could be secondary if the script were any good but there is no logic or clear rules in the universe they're creating and it ends up a mess.
  I guess they didn't have much time to shoot this but overall it's just not worth your time.
  
  
  
  
  
• Never read reviews
  By A3KN3XQNDH1KNW on 2007-06-06
  While trawling through Amazon films I chanced across "Dante's Cove", stupidly I read the reviews and thought 'this looks interesting' how wrong I was. This is truly appalling. Risible story line, incredibly bad acting (especially in the 'lesbian' scenes). The dialogue was laughable, luckily I could fast forward in the hope it would get better, unfortunately it never did, AND THEY MADE A SECORD SERIES!
  I despair of American t.v. when they can produce this rubbish, I know it is fantasy, but no one has relationships like this, no one makes love like this, producers, look at what is made across the water in the U.K. the original "Queer as folk" or "In the line of beauty" where the sex shown (although not explicit) had passion and not soft focus (and lack of continuity in the beach scenes - check out the outfits that conntinually change), or look at the first two series of 'Tales in the City' for quality (forget the last series - just like the books that went down hill). Do not waste your money on this, complain bitterly if you did and pray that someone, somewhere has the balls to make a(even fantasy)series about gay men that we can relate to in some form or another. Finally I was forced to give this a one star rating as it would not accept a no star.
  
  
• Don't Expect High Art, And You'll Enjoy Yourself
  By A366IQ55BNPIZ8 on 2006-09-04
  This is hardly ground-breaking, earth-shattering art. It's hardly anything more than an excuse to show a bunch of young, beautiful people in various stages of undress, and throws in a bit of supernatural hokum for variety's sake. The cast, for the most part, is servicable if not stand-out, but Charlie David and Gregory Michael manage to have an actual sweetness together that makes you buy the couple even in the midst of such ridiculous goings on.
  
  Tracy Scoggins overacts with gusto, and her scenery-chewing makes the material a lot more watchable than it might be otherwise. Instead of considering the material beneath her, she's clearly have a ball with something that might make most actresses of any small fame roll her eyes. And Nadine Heiman, while certainly not going to give Katharine Hepburn or Elizabeth Taylor runs for their money as a legendary actress, is cute and pixieish as Van, and that makes her a winner.
  
  Ludicrous writing, bad dialogue, good music, and an enthusiatic if not overly polished cast make this a guilty pleasure worth a few laughts and an hour or two of brain candy.
  
  
• Eye candy, and that's all, folks
  By A1NIFDGOOXJRIK on 2007-02-19
  While it's always great seeing hot guys getting it on, this is about all there is to this show. Other reviewers have called this a gothic soap opera, and I agree with that. Pity. It could have been so much more. Hey ho. I'll role in the surf with Charlie David ANY time!
  
  
• Gripping TV
  By A3Q1GB17EH17UD on 2007-05-11
  "DANTE'S COVE"--Season I
  
  Gripping TV
  
  Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
  
  
  Now that "Dante's Cove" (Here! TV) has firmly implanted itself on Here TV and season one has been released on DVD, I think it may be a good idea to take a closer look at it. For those of you that have not seen the mini series you are really missing a good time. I am hooked on it and I think that you will be also--especially after you get through the first episode.
  Let us venture back in time to the nineteenth century. Ambrosius (sounds and looks good enough to eat) Vallin (Gregory Lee), a gay man is out for revenge against "Tresum" a coven of witches. He charms Grace, the main witch woman, and hopes to marry her and in that way gain the secrets to the power of the coven. On the afternoon of the wedding day, Grace finds Ambrosius with his pants down and with the butler inside of him. She quickly kills the butler, and has Vallin imprisoned in the basement of her home. She has him tied up and changes his handsome appearance into the body of an old man and tells him that he will never be allowed to be free or even allowed to die naturally. However, there is an escape clause. Grace tells him that if he can find a young man to love him, the spell will be broken. This is highly unlikely as no one knows that he even exists or that he is in the basement. Moving forward to the present time, 200 years later, we see that Grace's former home has become a resort and two hot studs, Kevin and Toby become modern pawns in this game of witchcraft and mystery. This is where I stop giving away the plot and urge you to see the series.
  The people who play the characters in this modern day soap opera are gorgeous and naked a lot. Their acting abilities are far from Academy Award caliber but they sure are nice to look at. The beautiful bodies and handsome faces make up for any lack they may have in screen presence. There are also lesbian scenes which are populated with beautiful, partially dressed young women who appear to be enjoying their love scenes. Watching the beautiful naked men and the partially clad beautiful women is a journey into the macabre with a strong Gothic atmosphere. Sure, it is a bit over done and highly exaggerated but it is great entertainment. It is not a series about being gay but more about how we, like everyone else, find ourselves in everyday situations as well as really weird carrying ones. I love that we are seen trying to navigate our way through the vicissitudes of life (albeit supernatural life) just like everyone else. It is a thrilling series and is full of interesting twists and turns. During the first episode, the poor acting bothered me but as I continued to watch and became wrapped up in the plot and I found myself really getting into it.
  The action (and there is plenty of it) is centered on the relationship of Toby (Charlie David) and Kevin (Gregory Michael); either of which you would love to have in your home. Veteran actress, Tracy Scoggins, shines in a role that was tailored to fit, as Grace the main witch. Again well not greatly written or acted, it is a compelling series and once you start watching it, it is addictive.
  Many of the issues in the film hit close to home. All of us have had a partner with which things have become strained while trying to build a relationship--probably not due to supernatural happenings but using this as a jumping off point, "Dante's Cove" does not fail to please. By adding skin to the series, we have a story that we can't help love to watch. The people are regular--they don't "camp" or carry on, they respond to problems as anyone else (after all--are we not just like everyone else?). They have jobs and boyfriends and arguments and problems. They may be better built and certainly more handsome than the average people we see on the street but that is what eye candy is all about. It is so nice to see a positive depiction of the way we live and the sex scenes are not bad either. Within the first ten minutes of season one, there is an explicit schtupping scene with male organs flapping and anal penetration. And that is only the beginning. There are also wild lesbian love trysts, there is straight sex, and there is abundant nudity, both male and female. In other words, there is something for everyone. But ladies it is only fair to tell you that so far that the naked men are more abundant than the naked women. I have a feeling that this will change as the series unrolls. "Dante's Cove" may be silly at times but the whole business is sexy and fun.
  I have heard it said by another critic that this is nothing more than soft-core porn. The story line is not new and a bit hackneyed but so what? The attractive cast makes up for a the lack of a brilliant script and season two, which is airing now, tightens up the lapses that were evident in the first season. On the cover of the DVD boxed set of season one the blurb reads, "Dark Shadows meets Melrose Place" and that does seem to be quite accurate. Add sex, sex, and more sex, toss in male frontal nudity and women in panties without bras, and you have something that appeals to all of us. Va va voom--the chemistry between the two male leads, Toby and Kevin is hot, hot, hot--neither of them can act their way out of a paper bag but they can really screw.
  In my initial review I remarked that "Dante's Cove" is both trashy and campy, which it is, and there is really no redeeming value in that. But let me tell you this--it is fun and the second season is so much better than the first. As it sometimes sinks into ridicularity, it seems to have a good time doing so. I have no idea how the actors were able to keep a straight face while filming. Its cheesiness is what makes it so much fun. There were times I found myself saying to my TV, "You didn't really say that, did you?" Yet that increased my involvement and I am hooked.
  When I first heard of the series it is was being advertised as the "first gay Gothic soap opera" on the "premier gay channel". I do not think I was adequately prepared for what I would eventually see. During the first episode I must admit that I was taken aback by the nudity and the overt sex scene in the very beginning. It was similar to the feeling I had during the first episode of "Queer as Folk". It is something to start a series with two naked men having anal sex. You wonder what can top that. There are times that the show is so bad that it is fabulous. The lighting misses its mark many times; the music is sometimes haunting and sometimes just awful. I could have other points of derision but then I would be too serious and the one thing that "Dante's Cove" is not is serious. It is so good to see a movie about us that is not centered on AIDS and that is just fun and is amoral with no moral.
  The best adjective I can use to describe "Dante's Cove" is gripping. I hated seeing "to be continued" written across my TV screen. Gays and lesbians seem to have always have enjoyed the supernatural -here we have it combined with the natural--the bare skin. The nudity of the series is beautiful. The problem I have with it is a minor one. In some scenes all is exposed while the ones we really want to see bared to the lens seem to be doing contortions so that little piece of information won't slip out. I wish that the writers had spent as much time on amending the script as the camera men did on attempting to hide the goods.
  
  
  
• Dumb and pretty doesn't do it for me
  By AFM9EUFNUQ8VQ on 2007-03-10
  This show is just softcore porn strung together by a half-baked, pseudo-gothic storyline. You'll probably get bored by the second or third love scene and fast forward through the rest of the show like we did.
  
  
• Oh brother!
  By A2A03P03EYBX5N on 2007-03-21
  I didn't think series as bad as this were still made. If you take away the gorgeous bodies, handsome faces and great hair you have next to nothing. Although much of the acting is very poor, no one can blame the actors for such a truly lousy script.
  I will buy and watch Season 2 to be supportive of the new genre, but really...you can do better than this!
  
  
• Convoluted Ridiculous Adolescent Plotless = CRAP
  By A4XFOO76EOYPC on 2007-04-04
  You want a synopsis - weird and stupid.
  Is it worth buying? NO!!! Is it worth renting? ONLY if you are desperate and have watched everything else including teletubbies tv show or re-runs of Dallas!!!
  Overacting R Us should be the by-line. Move on, find something decent...don't waste any part of your day on this.
  
  
• I HAVE TO SAY , DANTES COVE IS EXCELLENT
  By A33JVR5PQBP0DP on 2006-10-08
  I AM LIVING IN CANADA AND MY FRIEND TURNED ME ON TO THIS PROGRAM. ITS A CROSS BETWEEN MELROSE PLACE, MEETS BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER WITH A LITTLE BIT OF QUEER AS FOLK.THE ACTORS ARE HOT, AND THE WOMEN ARE ATTRACTIVE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MORE SERIOUS BODY OF WORK, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. BUT THIS PROGRAM IS A FUN SHOW. I HOPE ITS HERE TO STAY.
  
  
• Boring soft core pornography
  By A36DJIRZJNMBUG on 2006-09-16
  I thought I was getting a dramatic gay television series like QAF....but it was two boring soft core porn 60+ minute videos. What a waste of my time and money. May have only been 30 minutes each if they removed the soft core porn. The men are beautiful...but I wanted to be entertained too.
  
  
  
  
  
• Interesting, compulsive and over the top
  By AKUSLT22PFPTK on 2006-09-24
  I ordered this on the strength of previous reviews as it looked very interesting.
  
  The people are georgeous, the scenery is most peoples dream and the plot is easy going but it has something that made me watch both episodes one after the other.
  
  Tracy Scoggins is wonderfully over the top and she steals every scene she is in. She brings something to the part og 'Grace' that most other actresses would have shied away from.
  
  The is a good deal of sex but it does nothing really to detract from the story and it is not something that creeps up on you. Once you have watched the first twenty minutes or so you know what is going to happen throughout.
  
  It is wonderfully interesting and I can't wait for series two to come out on DVD.
  
  It is on my reminder list already.
  
  
• Fun
  By ASXCETZYI9FIF on 2006-10-31
  This show is fun. But don't think that you are getting much in the way of story and plot. It is about 2min dialog, 5min soft porn...2min dialog..5min soft porn. Honeestly I would have enjoyed it more if they did a little less of the sex thing.... If I wanted porn I would rent porn....
  
  
• I'll give it a second chance
  By A1SRH736B6OSTO on 2007-03-20
  I liked it, but then again, it had lots of problems...overacting, too much unnecessary sex/nudity, stupid dialogue, silly (contrived) conflicts, etc., etc.... but the fact that I'm waiting for the second season DVD, says that on some level it caught my interest, which is why it gets 2 stars.
  
  
• Great entertainment, bad DVD?
  By AVCBTSJ1TNHT on 2007-06-13
  I had not seen Dante's Cove before ordering it from Amazon, and while I agree the acting leaves much to be desired, it was lots of fun to watch.
  
  The only problem is that Disc 1 of the first season seems to have some problems. It skips and freezes constantly, getting worse as you get further into the disc. This happens on 3 separate DVD players, plus my computer, so I'm pretty sure it's the disc. Amazon replaced the set for me, but the replacement has the same problems. I'm wondering if anyone else is having problems like this? I'd sure like to know. Unfortunately I may have to return both copies to Amazon for a refund. Maybe I'll have better luck if I purchase from someone else, assuming Amazon just got a bad batch.
  
  
• Liked it
  By A17BMKNH9MA3CT on 2006-11-04
  Hopefully more of the Dante's Cove series will be made avaiable for purchase
  
  
• Part Gothic, part horror, part gay
  By A1BKYV93N19T38 on 2006-11-10
  This was one of the best DVD's I have seen in a long time. It kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time I was watching it. It was kind of like a modern day Dark Shadows. Tracy Scoggins did and awesome job as Grace. The are alot of sexy guys in this DVD all very good actors.
  
  
• The worst acting I have ever seen!
  By A1E06EVNTMHTP4 on 2007-01-05
  Actually, I would give Dante's Cove a minus 5 stars - for the acting. BUT the acting and plot are SO bad that you can't stop watching it! I would recommend it as a really good laugh. The stars were good eye candy - but I'm a straight woman!
  
  
• Less Than Hoped For
  By A20GQ70AJ9B0NY on 2007-02-13
  Despite its obvious charms, this DVD is an amazingly brief 3 hours in length, which was unexpected since it was billed as "Season One" of the show. Though it has some interesting scenes and characters, the basic plot and dialogue is unimaginative and disappointing, and it seems to get worse as the three hours wear on. All in all, definitely not worth the $18 paid for it.
  
  
• Best show ever!!
  By A9E7BTSF5Y9ZS on 2007-04-11
  Dante's Cove is a very addictive show to me. With all the complex characters, the crazy love triangle thats happpening, and also that supernatural magic called "Tresum", who cant resist it. In this season the dialog is kinda dull at some points, but the story totally makes up for it. I absolutly love this show and am hooked.
  
  
• A Pleasant Escape From the National News
  By A9I40WFF40R4 on 2007-05-23
  Directed by Sam Irvn, "Dante's Cove" can be described in one word, a hoot. It is what happens when you mix a bit of witchcraft, a soap opera, a sweet love story, a little S & M, erotica (some might say soft porn but we'll leave them alone), nearly naked (for a lot of the film) beautiful men and women, and georgeous shots of the sand and sea. Of course one should not take this movie seriously. It's escapist entertainment at its best.
  
  Tracy Scoggins (Grace) is the witch from 1840 who puts a spell on her handsome fiancee William Gregory Lee (Ambrosius) when she finds him buck naked with a male friend. Then the plot switches to the present where a group of interesting, young and beautiful characters, gay, lesbian and one token straight, live at Dante's Cove. Charlie David, who has perfected the day old beard,(Toby), is lovers with everybody's kid brother Gregory Michael (Kevin). They get caught up with the supernatural, the witchcraft of Ambrosius; but we'll have to wait for the next installment to see what happens.
  
  I for one am ready for the next episode.
  
  
• Faulty Discs
  By AC800LFJKYN2G on 2007-06-15
  I'm having the same problem as an earlier reviewer .. I'm on my second set and can't get the first disc to play in any DVD player. What's up with that?
  
  
• Sexy, Steamy, Superstitious, Soap Opera
  By A2HTLWAIAIF3MO on 2007-08-08
  When I bought Dante's Cove off of Amazon I was looking for something different in a gay-themed film...well this almost fit the bill. I can tell you it was different. Queer As Folk meets Melrose's place meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets L Word meets well you get the picture. It was pretty good despite some of the dialogue but the setting was beautiful and the outfits were hot and the fact that they were barely wearing any! It was well written and the storyline was good overall. Looking forward to the next season if there will be one.
  
  
• Dante's Cove Rocks!!!
  By A1VBNLRZOI4G7I on 2006-09-19
  I wasnt sure what I was watching when i rented this movie at blockbuster but by the end of season 1 I was HOOKED on Dante's Cove. I loved the characters, the whole tresum plot, and Kevin and Toby are my new favorite TV couple 4 sure, Never before and probably never again will there be another show like this and for that alone i had to go out an buy my own copy. And I'm completely happy I did. I hope this show continues to do well and more people enjoy it as much as I do..I cant wait for season 2 to be released already..I'm dying to find out what happens next
  
  
• Dante's Cove
  By A266BSIP72I39G on 2006-10-02
  Two hot guys in love with a softcore love scene. This guy was trying to help his boyfriend to recover in a horrible curse of this hot warlock guy, who got cursed by his ex-girlfriend? He got locked in a dugeaon which changed his apperance and made him wrinkled.
  
  

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