Check Out The Trailer For “The Grossest Movie Ever Made” That Inspired Mass Walkouts At Sundance
Don't say we didn't warn you.
Audiences at Sundance may have gotten more than they bargained for when they sat down to watch Kuso at the film festival in Utah this week.
The debut feature film from Steven Ellison, better known as music producer Flying Lotus, Kuso stars comedians Hannibal Buress and Tim Heidecker and has already been touted by one critic as “the grossest movie ever made”. The film reportedly sparked a mass exodus from a Sundance press and industry screening ahead of its public premiere.
In his review for The Verge, critic Chris Plante detailed a number of the movie’s most graphic sequences, including one scene in which “a boil-covered woman choked a man with a strap until he covered half her face with semen” and another that depicts “a deformed boy as he grows a disembodied head within a boulder-sized, mucous-lined orifice by basting the noggin with his own freshly produced feces.”
So yeah…wanna watch the trailer?
A number of viewers in the public screening reportedly walked out as well, although according to Ellison it was “only like 20 people.”
It was only like 20 people out of like 400 who walked out. Wasn't as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks. https://t.co/j3GTtO906o
— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
The public crowd loved it and stayed. The press screening had the "walkouts" who cares? https://t.co/ZdWyvdyl2n
— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
It’s also worth pointing out that walkouts at Sundance aren’t a particularly uncommon occurrence. Just last year, dozens of moviegoers bailed early on Swiss Army Man, otherwise known as the film in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse. The film became an indie hit despite (or perhaps because) of its notoriety.
That being said, we reckon Kuso might have a bit of a tougher time finding an audience.