Friday, September 19, 2014

Tusk: The Walrus and the Carpenter Woman Around Town

Tusk

Are you really mourning your humanity? I don’t understand, who in the hell would want to be human.


We can all relax now; when writer/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy) threatened to retire it turns out he was just bluffing. He’s back with what might be the weirdest most delightfully demented little horror movie I’ve ever seen based on a one time podcast story challenge.


Fittingly the movie kicks off with a pair of guys from Not-See productions (the pronunciation of the name becomes a running joke in this sickly hilarious film), Wallace Brighton (Justin Long of Acceptance and Drag Me to Hell) and Teddy (former child star Haley Joel Osment returning to the big screen) laugh like hyenas over an unfortunate young man nicknamed the Kill Bill kid who managed to amputate his own leg trying to do a video-graphed sword routine. Their inappropriate voyeurism and glee functions as a meta-commentary on us, the viewers, for also going to horror movies to see people suffer – though in our defense at least the events here are fictitious.


YouTube Preview Image A self-absorbed Wallace is chronically unfaithful to his girlfriend Ally (a great performance by Genesis Rodriguez), who is a three dimensional person with her own flaws and vulnerabilities. Wallace goes up to Canada in search of weird people to interview and stumbles across an ad by a retired seaman who boasts that he has many stories to tell. Wallace travels to meet the reclusive and mysterious Howard Howe (Michael Parks in a role as charismatic, depraved, maniacal, and unforgettable as Anthony Perkins in Psycho) who quotes Tennyson, Hemingway, and knows The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by heart. Howe has indeed led a fascinating life; he also plans on turning young Wallace into a walrus via a campaign of physical and mental torture.


Suffice it to say that what happens is in equal parts terrifying and surreal. Tusk weaves freakiness, horror, humor, and unexpected moments of emotion and pathos into an utterly original tableau.


Tusk opens on September 19, 2014.




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