- Format: Colour, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: All Regions
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Warp Films/Alcove Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 20 Sep 2010
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B003NEQ7X4
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,684 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Married with a kid, and now residing in his native Nashville, cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine show no signs of settling down. Hailed as the future of American cinema by Werner Herzog, writer/ director Korine has blazed a trail with his consistently idiosyncratic output, including KIDS, GUMMO, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY and MISTER LONELY. TRASH HUMPERS sees him return to the big screen with an excoriating attack on the American Dream. A lo-fi production of white-heat intensity, Korine calls it, a new type of horror; palpable and raw.
TRASH HUMPERS follows a small gang of sinister elderly peeping toms through the shadows of a nightmarishly familiar suburban landscape. Their shocking and sociopathic behaviour makes for unbearably compelling viewing that scorches itself onto the minds eye.
Come hang out at the crossroads of comedy and despair with TRASH HUMPERS...
Review: Part avant-garde nightmare, part anti-nature documentary, and part satire of our YouTube-era voyeurism toward the unnerving looniness of others. - LA Times
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It's both horrifying and gleefully funny. Trash Humpers is like no film you have seen before. --The Times
The cinematic equivalent of listening to death metal --The Guardian
5 stars decimates the boundaries of cinema...unforgettable. --Bizarre
The cinematic equivalent of listening to death metal --The Guardian
5 stars decimates the boundaries of cinema...unforgettable. --Bizarre
The cinematic equivalent of listening to death metal --The Guardian
5 stars decimates the boundaries of cinema...unforgettable. --Bizarre
The cinematic equivalent of listening to death metal --The Guardian
5 stars decimates the boundaries of cinema...unforgettable. --Bizarre
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Shot and edited on knackered VHS equipment, Trash Humpers follows people in Nashville, USA. But if you think these deviants on the rampage are a bunch of dysfunctional hoodies, think again: they're sociopathic geriatrics.''
You'll shudder when you see young actors wearing wizened grandpa and grandma masks, engaging in activities such as dry-riding trees, reaming dolls, or smashing up TVs - especially when they're cackling maniacally and screaming, "Make it! Make it! Don't fake it!"''This really is a new type of horror.
But director Harmony Korine (who wrote the screenplay for the 1995 film Kids, and made Gummo two years later) adopts the perspective of the deranged old dears, and you'll discover a wealth of emotions if you allow yourself to get lost in their nightmarish vision: the pensioners lead a harsh, nihilistic lifestyle, yet they're passionate about being part of a close-knit family unit. And while their behaviour is revolting, they're funny - larking about like The Three Stooges.''
As with Lars Von Trier's 1998 Dogme film, The Idiots, in which a group of Danish people goof around pretending to be mentally disabled, you'll either love it or loathe it. But Trash Humpers is an unforgettable film that transports you to a weird 1980s parallel universe where shocks lie around every corner.
You'll shudder when you see young actors wearing wizened grandpa and grandma masks, engaging in activities such as dry-riding trees, reaming dolls, or smashing up TVs - especially when they're cackling maniacally and screaming, "Make it! Make it! Don't fake it!"''This really is a new type of horror.
But director Harmony Korine (who wrote the screenplay for the 1995 film Kids, and made Gummo two years later) adopts the perspective of the deranged old dears, and you'll discover a wealth of emotions if you allow yourself to get lost in their nightmarish vision: the pensioners lead a harsh, nihilistic lifestyle, yet they're passionate about being part of a close-knit family unit. And while their behaviour is revolting, they're funny - larking about like The Three Stooges.''
As with Lars Von Trier's 1998 Dogme film, The Idiots, in which a group of Danish people goof around pretending to be mentally disabled, you'll either love it or loathe it. But Trash Humpers is an unforgettable film that transports you to a weird 1980s parallel universe where shocks lie around every corner.
12 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Comparing this worthless, punishing swill to even the worst of John Waters or David Lynch gives it way too much credit. So Harmony Korine (a great name for a gangster's moll) was able to replicate the look of a crappy 8th generation VHS videotape? That's some feat. So he got a bunch of irritating exhibitionists to unconvincingly disguise themselves as old people and then set them loose to hump trashcans and break old TV sets? Bravo. The only true accomplishment here is getting intelligent people to A) masochistically sit through this non-movie and then B) actually try to critique and interpret it like it's something more than the pathetic indulgence of someone who has so much contempt for his audience that he makes Marguerite Duras look like Nora Ephron.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Trash Humpers from Harmony Korine the same director of Gummo. Imagine unearthing a video tape showing the antics of a small group if elderly people. They smash things up, lurk around, booze, and are drawn to wheelie-bins. It could just be a take on redneck America, the towns not usually reported on. Its certainly like nothing else.
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