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Fantastic Fest 2019: ‘Butt Boy’ is a Hard Boiled, Bizarre Game of Cat and Mouse

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Butt Boy is a strange ride. It’s a film called Butt Boy after all, so I suppose some level of strangeness is suitable. It’s also a film that was added into Fantastic Fest’s lineup of perpetually great programming, which bodes well for any film I see there. However, the question still stood, how can one butt stuff joke hold an entire films runtime? The answer is complicated.

Butt Boy opens on schlub, Chip Gutchell caught in a dead end job with a wife that doesn’t return his affection. When he arranges for his first prostate exam, Gutchell finds that he very much enjoys shoving things up his butt. Now, while that starts as relatively small items, it ends up turning to live animals and even entire humans.

Flash forward a few years to Detective Russel Fox (Tyler Rice) who finds himself investigating mysterious disappearances that may have something to do with the before mentioned Gutchell.

Butt Boy is an obvious on the nose satire. Using its overt butt stuff to convey a big underlying message. Part of the fun of the film is getting to the center of what that message is. So, I won’t spoil that here. I will say that the entire film is played surprisingly straight. For the subject matter at hand, the whole thing comes off straight faced even in the film’s most absurd moments.

Tyler Rice does a pitch-perfect job as Detective Russel Fox adding a young Micheal Madsen approach to his overall look and delivery. The more absurd bits of narrative are grounded well by his serious approach to his character and is ultimately what makes the film work like it does.

Rice and Guchell going head to head feels almost comic book. Like, this could have been a character rejected and thrown away by Marvel. It feels very origin story, and like it is setting up for a bigger world built on a hero and his arch nemesis.

Director and Co-writer, Tyler Cornack creates a David Fincher-esque aesthetic to much of the film. Crafting a world that almost seems to suffocate in its visual representation of loneliness. Added to that are strong elements of effective cat and mouse mechanics. The whole thing works really well when combined, even in the moments when the pacing seems a bit off.

Butt Boy is Heat by way of Fincher… but with a lot more butt stuff. It’s an effective approach to something that could have been passed off as a one-off butt joke. The real magic of the picture is how Cornack is able to sustain the film’s thriller cadence for as long as he does. This of course all leading up to the most insane third acts you will see in 2019. Trust me, the third act alone is something that needs to be seen to be believed. It’s a strange title give it a looksee and judge for yourself.

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’28 Years Later’ Trilogy Taking Shape With Serious Star Power

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Danny Boyle is revisiting his 28 Days Later universe with three new films. He will direct the first, 28 Years Later, with two more to follow. Deadline is reporting that sources say Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes have been cast for the first entry, a sequel to the original. Details are being kept under wraps so we don’t know how or if the first original sequel 28 Weeks Later fits into the project.

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes

Boyle will direct the first movie but it’s unclear which role he will take on in the subsequent films. What is known is Candyman (2021) director Nia DaCosta is scheduled to direct the second film in this trilogy and that the third will be filmed immediately afterward. Whether DaCosta will direct both is still unclear.

Alex Garland is writing the scripts. Garland is having a successful time at the box office right now. He wrote and directed the current action/thriller Civil War which was just knocked out of the theatrical top spot by Radio Silence’s Abigail.

There is no word yet on when, or where, 28 Years Later will start production.

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The original film followed Jim (Cillian Murphy) who wakes from a coma to find that London is currently dealing with a zombie outbreak.

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Watch ‘The Burning’ At The Location Where It Was Filmed

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Fangoria is reporting that fans of the 1981 slasher The Burning will be able to have a screening of the film at the location where it was filmed. The movie is set at Camp Blackfoot which is actually the Stonehaven Nature Preserve in Ransomville, New York.

This ticketed event will take place on August 3. Guests will be able to take a tour of the grounds as well as enjoy some campfire snacks along with the screening of The Burning.

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The film came out in the early ’80s when teen slashers were being churned out in magnum force. Thanks to Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th, filmmakers wanted to get in on the low-budget, high-profit movie market and a casket load of these types of films were produced, some better than others.

The Burning is one of the good ones, mostly because of the special effects from Tom Savini who had just come off of his groundbreaking work on Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th. He declined to do the sequel because of its illogical premise and instead signed on to do this movie. Also, a young Jason Alexander who would later go on to play George in Seinfeld is a featured player.

Because of its practical gore, The Burning had to be heavily edited before it received an R-rating. The MPAA was under the thumb of protest groups and political bigwigs to censor violent films at the time because slashers were just so graphic and detailed in their gore.

Tickets are $50, and if you want a special t-shirt, that will cost you another $25, You can get all the information by visiting the On Set Cinema webpage.

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‘Longlegs’ Creepy “Part 2” Teaser Appears on Instagram

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Neon Films released an Insta-teaser for their horror film Longlegs today. Titled Dirty: Part 2, the clip only furthers the mystery of what we are in for when this movie is finally released on July 12.

The official logline is: FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.

Directed by former actor Oz Perkins who also gave us The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Gretel & Hansel, Longlegs is already creating buzz with its moody images and cryptic hints. The film is rated R for bloody violence, and disturbing images.

Longlegs stars Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, and Alicia Witt.

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