Eighty S1xer

Ryder recalls a story of his youth involving the sexual abuse of his childhood friend in Tel Aviv during the filming of Amerikan Mutants in 1986. (Trigger Warnings for drug abuse, and sexual content)

I remember a trip when I was maybe eleven; my father and I traveled to Israel to visit the set of a movie titled Amerikan Mutants. There is no telling how much he invested in the film, as he would never talk about money at the kitchen table in front of my mother, but he seemed to be having the best time walking between the trailers of some of the starle…