BUTT BOY (2019)
Label: Epic Pictures
Region Code: Region-FREE
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 99 Minutes
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.39:1)
Director: Tyler Cornack
Cast: Shelby Dash, Tyler Cornack, Tyler Rice, Austin Lewis
Director: Tyler Cornack
Cast: Shelby Dash, Tyler Cornack, Tyler Rice, Austin Lewis
Schlubby loser Chip Gutchel (director Tyler Cornack) works at a soulless office IT job, at home he's in passionless relationship with is disinterested wife Anna (Shelby Dash), further complicated by the arrival of a new baby. The only pleasure he seems to find is an unexpected one, when a routine prostrate exam at the doctor's office turns him onto a new kink, anal-play!
Soon chip is stuffing his hungry anus with small objects from around the house, eventually working his way up to a TV remote control, then his family dog, and even a small child he at the local park! After the park incident the film moves ahead a few years, it seems Chip has been attending AA meetings, seeking help for his own anal-addiction under the guise of alcoholism, and it seems to have been successful, he even becomes a sponsor to others struggling with their own addiction issues.
One such individual is Russel Fox (Tyler Rice), a hard-boiled detective who joins AA with Chip as his sponsor. Over dinner while getting to know each other Russell describes his cravings for alcohol, inadvertently re-igniting Chip's own cravings for stuffing things into his booty-hole, returning home that night he crams a Sorry game token up his butt. Not long after Chip's work has a bring your kid to work event, during which one of the kids goes missing, and yep, he's stuffed the kid right up his ass. Russell ends up being the cop investigating the missing kid report, and he becomes convinced that Chip had something to do with it, coming to the conclusion that somehow he is disappearing things into his sphincter, which of course is hard to prove and even more difficult to explain to his superiors.
Butt Boy certainly has a nutty premise but it doesn't go too graphic, with actual sphincter action coming in short supply, for better or worse depending on your tastes for bad-taste. It leaves a lot to the
imagination, but it does have the good sense, and bad taste, to actually go into the interior of Chip's posterior, revealing a gaping and cavernous repository where everything he has ever stuffed up his butt resides in a poop-stained limbo, including that kid from he park, still very much alive!
The cast play it pretty straight, with Tyler Cornack as Chip playing it a bit too restrained for my tastes in the role of the secret butt-stuffer, but Tyler Rice as the hardened cop is more fun, he has a certain Robert De Niro quality about his portrayal, the way he squints his eyes and tilts his head, it's a fun bit of homage and I dig his intensity. I also dig the way that tensions build between the pair, the dynamic changing from friendly to adversarial, culminating in the a way that seemed inevitable, and then resolved in a delightful burst of gore that had me laughing. Special mention to actor Austin Lewis who plays Chip's overly-caffeinated office manager who holds rapping rap-sessions at the start of each day, his somewhat spastic performance is a lot of fun, I've worked with managers like him, I admire their energy but hated working for them, especially if you already hate your job.
Audio/Video: Butt Boy (2019) arrives on region-free Blu-ray from Epic Pictures
framed in 2.39:1 widescreen in 1080p HD, colors are vivid and well-saturated throughout, this is a tight-looking presentation that takes full advantage of the color spectrum, making this indie look fantastic in HD. Skin tones look natural, lack levels are good and blacks are nice and deep, it's a great looking Blu-ray with plenty of fine detail in the digital cinematography.
Audio on the disc comes by way of English Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1, sadly no uncompressed audio, but what we get is absolutely serviceable. The 5.1 is not the most immersive mix but dialogue is always crisp and clean, and there are some slight atmospherics and score that bleed into the surrounds, but it's mostly front-centric, optional English subtitles are provided.
Extras begin with a lively audio commentary with actor/co-writer/director Tyler Cornack, co-writer Alan Cook and actor/co-producer Tyler Rice, plus a 12-min making of featurette that includes rehearsals, storyboards and planning for shots, its a cool featurette that offers plenty of insight into the preparation and planning needed to make an indie film. We also get a pair of 2-min trailers for the film and 6-min of trailers from Epic Pictures.
The singe-disc release comes housed in a standard Blu-ray keepcase with a one-sided sleeve of artwork, and I do appreciate that Epic Pictures are using sturdy, heavy-duty keepcases, noy light-weight eco-cases.
Special Features:
framed in 2.39:1 widescreen in 1080p HD, colors are vivid and well-saturated throughout, this is a tight-looking presentation that takes full advantage of the color spectrum, making this indie look fantastic in HD. Skin tones look natural, lack levels are good and blacks are nice and deep, it's a great looking Blu-ray with plenty of fine detail in the digital cinematography.
Audio on the disc comes by way of English Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1, sadly no uncompressed audio, but what we get is absolutely serviceable. The 5.1 is not the most immersive mix but dialogue is always crisp and clean, and there are some slight atmospherics and score that bleed into the surrounds, but it's mostly front-centric, optional English subtitles are provided.
Extras begin with a lively audio commentary with actor/co-writer/director Tyler Cornack, co-writer Alan Cook and actor/co-producer Tyler Rice, plus a 12-min making of featurette that includes rehearsals, storyboards and planning for shots, its a cool featurette that offers plenty of insight into the preparation and planning needed to make an indie film. We also get a pair of 2-min trailers for the film and 6-min of trailers from Epic Pictures.
The singe-disc release comes housed in a standard Blu-ray keepcase with a one-sided sleeve of artwork, and I do appreciate that Epic Pictures are using sturdy, heavy-duty keepcases, noy light-weight eco-cases.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Actor/Co-writer/Director Tyler Cornack, Co-Writer Alan Cook and Actor/Co-Producer Tyler Rice
- Behind the Scenes (12 min)
- Official Trailer (2 min)
- Green Band Trailer (2 min)
- Epic Pictures Trailers: Tainted (2 min), Transference (2 min), Torpedo: U-235 (2 min)
- Green Band Trailer (2 min)
- Epic Pictures Trailers: Tainted (2 min), Transference (2 min), Torpedo: U-235 (2 min)
Butt Boy began as a 1-min short film, and as often happens with shorts stretched to feature length it definitely feels overly padded to get it to feature length. It does at least attempt to flesh out the characters a bit to escape the one-dimensional feel of the short, I just didn't find that it all worked gangbusters, but I did like the movie, I just don't love it. It's interesting
enough and just culty enough that it appealed to my appreciation of weird, potentially gross, cult cinema, and I absolutely applaud it for going for it, though for my own tastes I would have appreciated a bit more scatological humor.
enough and just culty enough that it appealed to my appreciation of weird, potentially gross, cult cinema, and I absolutely applaud it for going for it, though for my own tastes I would have appreciated a bit more scatological humor.
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