If you needed any further evidence that Buddy isn’t actually a children’s movie, its R rating should do the trick. […]
If you needed any further evidence that Buddy isn’t actually a children’s movie, its R rating should do the trick.
Casper Kelly’s twisted horror comedy is rated R for “bloody violence, some drug content and language,” which sounds fairly standard for a horror movie until you get to the final four words of the rating:
“All involving children.”
Now, a third teaser has been released, this one focusing solely on the children who are going missing in the small town back in the 1990s.
Buddy comes from Casper Kelly, the filmmaker behind the brilliantly bizarre viral short Too Many Cooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jamie King. The film takes the warm and fuzzy world of a 1990s children’s television show and turns it into something considerably more sinister.
The official synopsis explains that a group of children spend their days singing, dancing, and learning life lessons inside the colorful world of “It’s Buddy!,” hosted by a bright orange unicorn named Buddy. Everything begins to fall apart when one of the children refuses to play along and Buddy isn’t particularly happy about it.
And wait, there’s more! You can become friends with Buddy.
A second video wants you to text Buddy at 571-OH BUDDY so you can be friends until the end.
Keegan-Michael Key voices Buddy, with Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt also starring. The film premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it for Dread Central.
