Filmmaker Casper Kelly (V/H/S/Halloween, Adult Swim Yule Log) drops viewers straight into the world of a kids’ show with Buddy, a high-concept horror comedy that dials up the absurdities of kids’ television programming to a lethal degree. Those on board with an experimental structure, tonal shifts, and Kelly’s darkly playful sense of humor will find […]
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The filmmaker behind twisted sitcom parody “Too Many Cooks” is back with another dark voyage into the absurd underbelly of familiar television fare: Buddy. Writer/Director Casper Kelly takes aim at kids’ shows, blending Barney with Pee-Wee, with a dash of Howdy Doody and Dora the Explorer, in a horror-comedy with a cuddly but murderous mascot. […]
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Casper Kelly opens up on how his stealth holiday horror movie came together, its curious development, and the importance of keeping audiences surprised. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to genuinely surprise audiences during a digital age where entire scripts can leak before a movie even exits pre-production. Horror is a genre that thrives through the unknown […]
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Adult Swim’s first feature-length horror film is the holiday gift that keeps on giving and a standout genre experiment. “It’s so hard to surprise people these days…Everybody’s seen everything.” It’s two minutes before Adult Swim’s holiday yule log presentation finally shows its hand, breaks free of its defining formula, and begins to first hint that […]
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