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The Incredible Redneck Torture Tape AKA Uncle G-damn!

posted 15 years ago by tonymurphylee
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Anyone see this video? It's this real trashy, old, sixty minute, shot-on-video home movie that some real strange people make and then somehow got distributed and became one of those popular little college frathouse videos that everyone had seen. I've seen it and it made me real sick to my stomach. I could barely finish it and I doubt I'll ever watch it again. It's not gross, exactly. It's just weird and creepy in a real strange way. I think it may have been the inspiration for that show Jackass, but I'm not sure. These redneck folk play all these pranks on each other and wreak havok and screw with each other in all these juvenile ways. The most infamous part is where they spend, like, twenty five straight minutes (no joke) torturing their drunk uncle in all these real cruel ways like painting on his face with silver spray paint and setting his crotch on fire over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. It's a little bit funny at first, I admit, but after the first three minutes it becomes real sad and then it just gets disturbing because they just keep screwing with him and doing all these terrible sick things to him. It's really repulsive stuff. I really hated it. I wouldn't recommend it personally. Here's the link for it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945601/

Anyway, when I saw the trailer for this film, Trash Humpers, I immediately thought of The Incredible Redneck Torture Tape. Then it got me thinking, found shot-on-video footage in that kind of grainy, ugly quality would really make for a great horror film. Now I know that there's stuff out there like The Blair Witch and Cloverleaf, and of course there's the first two August Underground films ( the third was shot on digital video). Also we have the films of Guiseppi Andrews as well. What I'm thinking, however, is something even more cheap and more simplistic than all of that stuff. Like, I really do think that there could be an audience for films like this. I think Trash Humpers may possibly be the start of a new sub-genre of horror films. Now of course I'm not saying it'll be a popular kind of film, but imagine the kinds of weird, f-cked up sh-t that some twisted minded filmmakers could create. It doesn't have to be totally real, like The Incredible Redneck Torture Tape. It could be a whole other world being explored. Filmmaking really is still in it's infancy, and I'm quite excited for the future of cinema.

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[–] eraserdead 14 years ago

sounds awesome.

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[–] tonymurphylee 14 years ago

I'm sure it wouldn't be tough to find a link. I watched it online with my brother. It's some weird sh-t. If you give up and can't find it online, well...if you HAVE to see it then you could always just buy it on amazon since it's available there (type in: Uncle G-ddamn, only replace the dash with an o). However, I would highly recommend that you don't do that and just search for it online because if you may end up really hating it.

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[–] eraserdead 14 years ago

i found it absolutely hilarious.

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[–] tonymurphylee 14 years ago

Nice. Yeah, it's a pretty popular little underground video.

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[–] pooman666 14 years ago

I think I had this on a 4-hour tape with TARD SPASM...

[–] polysicsarebest 14 years ago

This film reminds me of Giuseppe Andrews, Uncle Goddamn's Redneck Torture Tape (which might be the film you're talking about here), Bride of Frank, and the masterpiece documentary Psychadelic Glue Sniffin Hillbillies. I also see similarities to The Clown Tape (a film which some of Matthew Barney's associates helped finish). I highly reccomend all these films, which can all be easily found on karagarga, cinemageddon, etc. I ESPECIALLY reccomend Giuseppe Andrews's movies, even though only like 30 are available now (and I see the number getting smaller and smaller, since Giuseppe has retired from filmmaking and he's been known to delete/destroy films in the past, and I can see him doing it again....).

Trash Humpers is a decent little film, it's got some good scenes, it just kinda drags a bit. I am really glad it was only 77 minutes long. I am glad Drag City released it (they also recently released Final Flesh by PFFR, aka the GENIUSES behind Xavier: Renegade Angel, the greatest show in the history of television --), and I am hoping it does well, as there are tons of no budget talents out there (Ryan Trecartin, Damon Packard, etc) trying to make a name for themselves. Korine said himself that this aesthetically pleasing VHS document is meant more as an artifact than a film, so it's actually quite difficult to assign it a proper rating.

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[–] ShotgunAndy 14 years ago

If there really exists a film called Psychadelic Glue Sniffin Hillbillies, then I need to see it.

[–] flanger216 14 years ago

"It's really repulsive stuff. I really hated it. I wouldn't recommend it personally. Here's the link for it."

The best encapsulation of Internet culture that I've ever seen.

[–] kzkb1 14 years ago

It's called "The New Grindhouse".

Some recent (highly recommended) films in this genre:

Reflections of Evil: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350044/

Frownland: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970935/

Yeast: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189367/

[–] blister329 14 years ago

I thought Frownland and Yeast were considered "mumblecore."

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