Butt boy

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Movie
Original title Butt boy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Tyler Cornack
script Tyler Cornack, Ryan Koch
production Ryan Koch
music Tyler Cornack, Ryan Koch
camera William Morean
cut Austin Lewis
occupation

Butt Boy is a fantasy thriller by Tyler Cornack that premiered on September 21, 2019 as part of Fantastic Fest .

action

Chip Gutchell is married, has just become a father, and one day has to have his first prostate exam. He notices that he not only likes the feeling of having something up his bum, he needs it, and so begins a slowly growing obsession with introducing things, first a bar of soap, then the remote control, and soon whole household items .

Nine years later, Detective Russell Fox made the acquaintance of Alcoholics Anonymous, Chip, who has been a long-time member of the program and has managed to get dry. Fox is in charge of a missing boy. The detective soon suspects that Chip could have had something to do with his disappearance.

production

Directed by Tyler Cornack , who also wrote the script with Ryan Koch and also played the lead role for Chip Gutchell. After The Pocketeers from 2016, this is the second film directed by Cornack. It is a feature film version of a sketch by the director, which can be seen on the “Tiny Cinema” comedy channel on YouTube and Instagram.

Tyler Rice plays Detective Russell Fox. Angela Jones took on the role of Doctor Morean.

It is the first feature film by William Morean as a cameraman. Lauren O'Brien was responsible for the production design and as art director , each for the first time in these roles.

The first screening of the film took place on September 21, 2019 as part of the Fantastic Fest . The film was released as video-on-demand in the USA on April 14, 2020 and as Blu-ray on April 28, 2020.

reception

The film has so far received the approval of 72 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and achieved an average rating of 6.2 out of a possible 10 points.

Rob Hunter of filmschoolrejects.com writes, director and screenwriter Tyler Cornack and co-writer Ryan Koch kept it serious like other serial killers thrillers, but what distinguishes Butt Boy from such films is the antagonist's approach. Even if the missing boy is in Chip's rectum, despite all the absurdity, the script deals with this fact very seriously, as do the actors. The film feels like an Astron 6 production at times, which Hunter wants to be understood as a compliment. He particularly highlights the acting performance of Tyler Rice , who, with his hair combed back, narrowed eyes and the various tics in the role of Detective Russell Fox, cultivates the clichéd appearance that is known from actors like Al Pacino and Christian Bale , and so add something familiar to this unusual and crazy story.

Eric Kohn of Indiewire writes as viewers would be wondering exactly how the chip would make it able to disappear everything in his butt, so when a child is missing from the neighborhood. Even if you don't really want to know something like that, Butt Boy lives from the morbid curiosity of the viewer: "How in the world does Chip stuff full-size people and even a dog in the buttocks, and what happens to them afterwards?" In the pantheon of thrillers, Butt Boy is reminiscent of films like The Human Centipede and Bad Milo . Even if the film repeatedly reaches the limits of its very demanding concept, Cornack delivers true cinematic delicacies in small doses, including a dazzling slow-motion montage that alternates between Chip's "butt-play" antics and Russell's violent police work. The camera work by William Morean could in places easily be confused with outtakes from David Fincher's oeuvre. With so much ambition the film reminds Kohn of the demanding Key & Peele sketches that paved the way for Jordan Peele to become a master of filmmaking.

Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times explains that even if Butt Boy may seem completely absurd at first glance and no matter how strange or tasteless he gets, he is far too clever and too good at understanding the loneliness of the unloved to be used as a provocation To be misunderstood because Chip is filling a void that his marriage and career have left. The unexpected beauty of some of the shots and the almost dreamlike scenes bathed in turquoise and crimson, neon and pastel colors, defied the limitations that a low-budget film typically entails, says Catsoulis.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18530151.html
  2. ↑ Fantastic Fest Review: Butt Boy (2019). In: morbidlybeautiful.com, September 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ Germain Lussier: You Have Never, Ever Seen a Movie Like Butt Boy. In: gizmodo.com, September 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Butt Boy. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ Rob Hunter: 'Butt Boy' Is Better, Weirder, and Warmer Than the Title Suggests. In: filmschoolrejects.com, April 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ Eric Kohn: 'Butt Boy' Review: Yes, This Really Is 'Zodiac' Meets 'Stranger Things' With an Anal Fetish. In: indiewire.com, April 14, 2020.
  7. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis: 'Butt Boy' Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir. In: The New York Times, April 15, 2020