From mensnewsdaily.com, we read the following excerpts from a Christmas Day article penned by Denise Noe.
Interview with Joseph Tatner who plays the spanking priest in The Halfway House
… One of the film’s odd characters, Father Fogerty, is likely to raise thoughts of the recent sex scandals involving Roman Catholic priests, as Fr. Fogerty is a cleric who loves paddling the bottoms of naughty young ladies. I interviewed actor Joseph Tatner, who plays the part, about his feelings regarding it. I was especially interested in his thoughts on the role since Tatner is a practicing Roman Catholic and once studied for that church’s seminary. …
DN: How do you feel about playing a spankophile?
JT: I don’t really see Fr. Fogerty as a “spankophile.†I think of him more like a parent who says, “I’m doing this for your own good.†I see him as very clinical. He studies from all sorts of source material and applies what he learns. He probably writes notes afterwards on the effects different punishments have on the girls. The real evil in this world is often done by people who never see it in themselves but point the finger at everyone else. …
I must admit that i had not heard of this film until just now. One review states that Father Fogerty is:
… a graying priest played to over-the-top perfection by handsome Joseph Tatner. A hard-core spanking aficionado, [who] never misses a chance to make an erring young woman pull her skirt up, her panties down, and bend over his desk so he can apply a paddle or whip to her bottom. Tatner always has a gleam in his eye and a suitably lugubrious smile as he pinkens some round and pretty bare butts.
The Halfway House is not all about spanking, and does appear to set a comedic balance between and among several socially explosive issues. The review quoted above concludes that The Halfway House “should be seen by grown-ups who like good camp and humorously raunchy scenes and aren’t averse to a religious setting for them.”
The Halfway House is available on DVD.
