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‘Trash Humpers’
Harmony Korine has forged a wholly unique career path since first coming to everyone’s attention back in 1995 thanks to KIDS, the movie he wrote as an 18-year-old that scared the bejeezus out of Disney and the rest of the old guard cinema establishment. (It was so controversial that, to this day, no distributors are brave enough to carry it on their streaming service.) Indie sleaze experiments like Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy followed, as did Spring Breakers and The Beach Bum, two prestige indie joints (A24 + Neon, respectively) that veered more mainstream than what he’d ever done before (yet still remain weird AF). His most avant garde work, though, is Trash Humpers, a truly twisted 2009 “home movie” experiment about mask-wearing degenerates that, yes, hump the trash (and fellate trees, and smash TV sets, and get blotto on the brown stuff). The Criterion Channel is currently streaming this movie — they describe it as a work of “pop-art transgression” — that had long been out of print. Don’t show your kids, don’t tell your parents; this feels like something Charles Manson would’ve adored.
