Verdict
Summary
For what it’s worth, the movie treats itself entirely seriously and has a strange, depressing quality to it, and there’s a climax at the end that is about as over the tip as you’d expect, but I expected much worse, so if you’re at a place in your life where you think you can handle this material, then it’s your lucky day because there’s a very specific movie that will fit your very specific needs at this very specific time. I don’t know what else to say. Butt Boy exists.
Plot:
Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip’s butt.
Review:
A terribly depressed and forlorn married man and father of a newborn spends his days going to work and returning home like a zombie, bereft of any spark of joy or life-affirming values. The man is Chip (Tyler Cormack, who also wrote and directed), and one day he gets his prostate checked, and it changes his life. When he comes home, he experiments by putting a bar of soap in his anus. It’s everything. Next, he puts in a remote control. Then, the family dog. And it gets worse: When he’s at the park with his wife and child, he abducts a child and in the child goes into the inner cavity of his soul by way of his butt. Feeling sick in his spirit, he tries to commit suicide, but it fails. Nine years go by, and Chip has been living with his actions. He goes to AA meetings to deal with his alcohol problem. It is there where he meets another alcoholic, a detective named Fox (Tyler Rice, this movie’s real treasure). Chip is chosen to be Fox’s sponsor, but Chip falls off the wagon and resumes his anal depravity. First goes a board game piece. Then another child. It is the disappearance of the second child that puts Chip in Fox’s crosshairs, as Chip appears to be the only suspect. By some crazy deduction, Fox figures out what Chip is up to (he’s taken off the case by his boss who thinks he’s insane for suggesting such a thing), and when Chip understands that the only way to get Fox off his back is to put him where he’s put everything else in secret, things get … really, really weird.
Yeah, Butt Boy. You know that you’ve gotten somewhere in time when there’s a movie called Butt Boy with the premise that Butt Boy has. It’s exactly as advertised, guys. It’s about a serial … snatcher? … who has an insatiable need to insert things and people into his anus. And it’s about the detective who figures it all out and must find a way to save the children living in his ass. Wow. So there you have it. For what it’s worth, the movie treats itself entirely seriously and has a strange, depressing quality to it, and there’s a climax at the end that is about as over the tip as you’d expect, but I expected much worse, so if you’re at a place in your life where you think you can handle this material, then it’s your lucky day because there’s a very specific movie that will fit your very specific needs at this very specific time. I don’t know what else to say. Butt Boy exists.
The Blu-ray for this title was recently released from Epic, and it comes with a commentary, a behind-the-scenes video, and trailers.
