What a depressing film! ‘Wonderland’, directed by James Cox, is about the life and times of American porn legend, John ‘The Wad’ Holmes.
The film looks at his ubiquitous life post his blue movie period when he was purported to have sex with some 20,000 women.

I didn’t find ‘Wonderland’ engaging. Holmes was basically a bland character who fell into a nasty crowd and reveled in its seedy world.
I guess Holmes is owed his own bio-pic as a result of his involvement in the gruesome murders of four people in Wonderland Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. His involvement in the murders gave him even more notoriety. A homicide detective investigating the crime at the time described the murder spree as on the same gruesome scale as the Manson/Tate murders of the 1960’s.

‘Wonderland’ was shot in a quasi documentary style. It unearths that, as a result of volcanic rage Holmes and another crime figure Eddie, were responsible for the murders.
In a reflection of the Los Angeles criminal justice scene, both the main protagonists were acquitted of the murder charges at their trial. Whereas Eddie is still alive and well, Holmes has since passed away from related AIDS illness.
The performances were satisfying including Val Klimer as Holmes and Lisa Kudrow as his long suffering girlfriend.
I found ‘Wonderland, for its dark biographical genre, unremarkable cinema. Maybe this had something to do with John Holmes being a pretty unremarkable person apart from his amazing tool!