TRASH HUMPERS

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"TRASH HUMPERS leaves the residue of an authentic nightmare. You'll want to shower afterward." - NEWSWEEK

“A blissfully weird utopia of marginalized naughtiness … a dubious classic of sorts. Part avant-garde nightmare, part anti-nature documentary, and part satire of our YouTube-era voyeurism toward the unnerving looniness of others.” – Robert Abele, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Is it a lost underground movie or a new species of freak-folk art?” – Dennis Lim, CINEMASCOPE

"Shot and edited on VHS tape that seems to have been fermented in a Dumpster, then gnawed by angry raccoons ... the film is a brutish stunt that slowly evolves into a nightmarish fairy tale." - Jeanette Catsoulis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

From HARMONY KORINE, controversial director of such divisive classics as GUMMO and MISTER LONELY, comes a twisted new film unearthed from the buried corners of the American nightmare.
TRASH HUMPERS follows a small gang of sinister, elderly 'Peeping Toms' through the shadows and streetlights of a weirdly familiar, yet completely alien, suburban landscape. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, and made to resemble a playback of a damaged and discarded old VHS tape (the outdated video format in which the film was actually shot and edited), we follow the shockingly debased exploits of a group of true sociopaths, the likes of which have never been seen before; they drag baby dolls around on bicycles, destroy television sets with hammers, indulge in a little kidnapping and murder, and yes ... they do some trash humping too, assaulting innocent dumpsters and recycling bins with everything they've got. Inhabiting a world of failed dreams and living far beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America with the unnerving message: we're here among you, like it or not.
Having seriously divided film festival audiences around the world since it's premiere at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, the unique, surreal and borderline insane TRASH HUMPERS is a one-of-a-kind movie experience, a new type of "found" folk art/horror - palpable, raw and often strangely beautiful (not to mention darkly funny, depending on your sense of humor), filled with images that are as compelling as they are unbearable. Images that, in classic Korine style, scorch themselves on your mind's eye, leaving you squinting into the foreseeable future and disbelieving what you've just seen.

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://trashhumpers.dragcity.com/

Read an LA WEEKLY story on Harmony Korine and his Trash Humpers:
http://www.laweekly.com/2010-05-13/film-tv/trash-humpers-talking-tall/