Butch Camp is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Alessandro De Gaetano, starring Paul Denniston, Judy Tenuta, Jason Terisi, Jordan Roberts and Bill Igraham.
The boot camp training seminar is overseen by the iron-fisted dominatrix commandant Samantha Rottweiler (Judy Tenuta) who unleashes a series of physically and mentally grueling exercises on her class of gay trainees.
The producers Sabo and Gellman had to deal directly with movie theatre chains to get domestic distribution due to the lack of financial backing from any of the major Hollywood studios.
"[3] Lisa Alspector of the Chicago Reader wrote that the film is "a portent of the time when gay lead characters will be plentiful enough that they’re no longer required to be role models or political icons—Matt’s an old-fashioned schlemiel in a half-hokey, half-serious story whose slapstick and reeking scatological humor provide some childish delight.
"[5] Mark Woods of Variety praised Tenuta's performance, while writing that the film "often feels like a gay version of the sometimes tasteless yet curiously popular British Carry On movies".