Butcher Boys

R 3.5
2013 1 hr 26 min Horror , Action , Comedy , Thriller

A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.

  • Cast:
    Ali Faulkner , Edwin Neal , Marilyn Burns , Derek Lee Nixon , Johnny Walter , Sonny Carl Davis , John Dugan

Reviews

Micitype
2013/09/06

Pretty Good

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AnhartLinkin
2013/09/07

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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Dirtylogy
2013/09/08

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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Marva
2013/09/09

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Nayara Oliveira
2013/09/10

While I was watching this movie there was plenty of times I couldn't stop myself from thinking I was watching an anime. The way the guys walk, talk, that sniffing thing. At first, I thought the writer went bananas when wrote the script but in the middle of the story I got it. It has gore and remind me of Hostel at the beginning, then it turns out to be more like Scary Movie. The story is good, you need to know that it is an anime like story to enjoy it. So wait for something like uni- dimensional characters, unnecessary dialogs and somethings with a bad explication. I laugh with some of the butcher boys, I guess they wanted to do them as crazy guys who are mad in all the possible ways, their personalities reminded me of Deadpool. The dog and that dress, they're comic. The end is like what the…? I loved and hated this movie. That so bad that it's good thing. A good movie to relax if you relax with screams and this kind of crap. It has a lot of potential, it just was not used so well. PS: English is my second language, so I'm sorry about any mistakes.

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haley_sobczak
2013/09/11

They really butchered this one. I'm more shocked than the creature with the electric collar that this film was able to wrangle the budget that it did. Having watched every crappy slasher flick to ever hit a red box I can confidently say this is the WORST of them all. The first two minutes when they are in the restaurant eating cake are by far the best. By the end I was praying for cannibals to come eat me so that I wouldn't have to endure anymore of this movie. The writing was terrible, consisting mainly of screaming and guys saying "bitch" every other word. The make up and costumes were laughable, the old man with the gun looking for his daughter? Was that a leather mankini with gun holsters???? Also the scene where Barbie flashes the other car, was that a female CPR mannequin whose boobs they used? Because they sure weren't an actual persons. And where did the rocket launcher at the end come from? So many questions left unanswered. To all of those who have compared it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, please a take a lap. And then take another because you clearly are delusional. Praying that I never have the misfortune of watching another film that involves the writer and/or directors of this one. Save your time and money and watch any of the other shitty slasher flicks on the red box queue.

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GL84
2013/09/12

Returning home from a birthday party, a group of friends run afoul of a gang of devious cannibals looking to sell human skin to likewise investors and must try to fend off the deadly members before succumbing to their whims.This is an utterly wretched and nearly worthless affair that has almost no redeeming values. The fact that this is as brutal and vicious as it is does have some nice qualities about it, but the mere fact that this one has as much wrong with it as it does is the real hindering problem here. The fact is that this one tries so hard to be seen as an urban variation of "TCM" that it goes for out-and-out copying several points from that movie and passing them off as original scenes in here. The chase through the alleys and back-door shops is mirrored from the chase through the woods in the original, a bounty hunter looking for a kidnapped member of the family is straight from one of the sequels and most insulting of all is that it apes the dinner sequence nearly shot-for-shot with the exact same results here, though this one tends to use it as an homage to that film more so than because it fits within the storyline construct because it makes no sense for the people in this film to behave like that for any reason other than outright pillage. That brings up the film's two biggest flaws, because nothing in here makes sense since no one says anything about what's going on. It tends to think that just because people are being vicious beaten and battered that they're supposed to feel sorry for what's happening to them, but it never says anything about what's going on. All attempts at expanding what the group's doing is mockingly laughed at and shot down, so it's a real mystery if they're cannibals, flesh peddlers or just flat-out wackos that have a fascination with the 50s' Greaser look since they all look like rejects from a hot-rod teen-angst movie. The other big flaw here is that this is done in an urban area of a major city, yet the police are shown as wholly incompetent and afraid of the gang while the locals are more than willing to live in the area as long as they don't mess with the group for there's several times where the police have the power to help them but choose not to, while the locals are shown to be abjectly afraid of interfering for fear of running afoul of the gang. This is unrealistic on a number of levels and is capped off by the frantic and confusingly irritating finale that upsets the whole nature of what's gone on before it. As well, there's a small dose of minor flaws like too much blackened screen-time without showing anything or being unable to find a topless actress for the role that it leaves this with a heaping slew of detrimental problems and nothing to save it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

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pesticle
2013/09/13

This is the worst piece of crap I've watched in recent memory.I watch a lot of poor horror movies with shitty plots but this movie really takes the cake.I've never written a review on IMDb before but I was inspired to get up and head to my computer to give this film a one star rating before the credits even finished rolling.Anyone giving this film more than 4 stars should have their account deleted and be banned from this site, it is seriously a travesty to rate this movie that high.For god's sake do not watch this movie.

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