BUTT BOY (R)

Review By Jeff Sanders
Released by Epic Pictures

After a routine prostate exam, Chip Gutchell (writer/director Tyler Cornack) a brooding suburban father, angry at the world, his wife, and his job finds he only obtains satisfaction by sticking objects up his anus. These aren’t objects that you would think a man could stick up his butt. No, these aren’t little toy cars like the Jackass guys squeezed, or a pencil or a marble. What this man inserts are much larger, remote controls, placards, a dog, and even… A CHILD! 

Years after this child goes missing and a down-on-his-luck, alcoholic, Robert DeNiro doppelganger, police officer named Russel Fox (Tyler Rice) has lost his way in life. He begins attending AA meetings where he is assigned his sponsor. Who is this sponsor? None other than the butt boy himself, Chip. Russell does not know any of Chip’s demented fetishes. He finds Chip nice enough at first, but more and more Chip’s odd, indifferent nature give Russel a deep itch he can’t scratch. You see, Russel has been assigned a new case–A missing Chinese/American child. A child that was last seen at Chip’s workplace. An office where Chip is the head of security.

BUTT BOY plays off of common tropes from detective/murder mysteries and serial killer lore. Suburbanite fathers like the BTK Killer were calm and kind of boring individuals who mangled and tortured their pray. BUTT BOY defies these psychopaths turning them into sexually frustrated losers whose only powers are up their ass. Police are worthless in these films, except for damaged detectives who will look into any dark crevice to find answers. Remember, in their life, they believe anyone is capable of anything, and anything is capable of happening.

Rice and Cornack also seem to be capable of anything. The team wrote, directed, scored and starred in this film. Only friends could have that kind of comradery, and only friends could stick to a joke as specific as this film and make it work. And the film mostly does work.

Because of the straightforward procedural and acting approach of this ridiculous film (and believe me, it gets VERY ridiculous), BUTT BOY manages to be an entertaining midnight movie somewhere between a pulp comic and a cartoon. You will laugh, you will be shocked, and by God, you will be moved. BUTT BOY is a film worth checking out.

BUTT BOY releases on VOD April 14th.