TUSK, a body horror comedy that amounts to Kevin Smith's sweetest film. Rambles, but to "yes, and" itself to new levels of WTF. #TIFF — Matt Patches (@misterpatches) September 7, 2014
TUSK, a body horror comedy that amounts to Kevin Smith's sweetest film. Rambles, but to "yes, and" itself to new levels of WTF. #TIFF
Tusk was just as disturbing and hysterical as expected. Definitely the horror film I've always wanted Kevin Smith to make. #TIFF14 — Rob Trench (@robtrench) September 7, 2014
Tusk was just as disturbing and hysterical as expected. Definitely the horror film I've always wanted Kevin Smith to make. #TIFF14
Tusk. Everything I wanted from a Walrus-based horror movie...and more! Phenomenal work @ThatKevinSmith and Co & @mmadnesstiff #WalrusYes — Tom McGee (@mcgeetd) September 7, 2014
Tusk. Everything I wanted from a Walrus-based horror movie...and more! Phenomenal work @ThatKevinSmith and Co & @mmadnesstiff #WalrusYes
Guy LaPointe killed the role of Guy LaPointe. Best part of #Tusk #TIFF14 — Marcus Barrie (@MarcusBarrie) September 7, 2014
Guy LaPointe killed the role of Guy LaPointe. Best part of #Tusk #TIFF14
TUSK was lost on me. My sense of humor just doesn't stretch that far into "[frick]ed up" territory. Was just plain horrified. Nah. #TIFF14 — Sarah Hope (@sarahmusing) September 7, 2014
TUSK was lost on me. My sense of humor just doesn't stretch that far into "[frick]ed up" territory. Was just plain horrified. Nah. #TIFF14
Whoever thought Smith did his own thing before needs to see TUSK, next level. So much Walrus yesing. — Ian Gibson (@Ian_Gibson) September 7, 2014
Whoever thought Smith did his own thing before needs to see TUSK, next level. So much Walrus yesing.
TUSK exceeded all expectations! Disturbingly wondrous to behold. If you don't see it at #tiff14 see it in theatres Sep 19th #WalrusYes !!! — lulu (@JewsanSarandon) September 7, 2014
TUSK exceeded all expectations! Disturbingly wondrous to behold. If you don't see it at #tiff14 see it in theatres Sep 19th #WalrusYes !!!
It's 3:20am. Not sleeping. Scenes from @ThatKevinSmith 's @TuskTheMovie r dancing in my head. Damn walruses. Damn #MidnightMadness. #TIFF14 — The Mequon News (@TheMequonNews) September 7, 2014
It's 3:20am. Not sleeping. Scenes from @ThatKevinSmith 's @TuskTheMovie r dancing in my head. Damn walruses. Damn #MidnightMadness. #TIFF14
Genuinely enjoyed #Tusk for what it is - silly, dark & fun - - kind of what a midnight movie should be... #WalrusYes #TIFF14 — John Fink (@FinkJohnJ) September 7, 2014
Genuinely enjoyed #Tusk for what it is - silly, dark & fun - - kind of what a midnight movie should be... #WalrusYes #TIFF14
Tusk was excellent @ThatKevinSmith ! #Tusk #TIFF14 #midnightmadness #YesWalrus pic.twitter.com/mIP1SSN4Ow — whert (@joebomb) September 7, 2014
Tusk was excellent @ThatKevinSmith ! #Tusk #TIFF14 #midnightmadness #YesWalrus pic.twitter.com/mIP1SSN4Ow
@ThatKevinSmith made all my hilarious nightmares come true with Tusk. #walrusyes — Russell King (@russ_king) September 7, 2014
@ThatKevinSmith made all my hilarious nightmares come true with Tusk. #walrusyes
TUSK is no good. Overlit, flat filmmaking can't match the story's lunacy. Waste of Kurtzman FX and Guy LaPointe is unreal obnoxious — Sam Zimmerman (@samdzimmerman) September 7, 2014
TUSK is no good. Overlit, flat filmmaking can't match the story's lunacy. Waste of Kurtzman FX and Guy LaPointe is unreal obnoxious
TUSK: Smith goes full-walrus. Impersonal, masturbatory, deeply disturbing yet strangely sweet. But hey, he made it. This exists. #TIFF14 — Sam Fragoso (@SamFragoso) September 7, 2014
TUSK: Smith goes full-walrus. Impersonal, masturbatory, deeply disturbing yet strangely sweet. But hey, he made it. This exists. #TIFF14
.@tuskthemovie gives the phrase WHAT THE ACTUAL [frick]?! a legitimate reason to exist. In the best way. @ThatKevinSmith is back! #TIFF14 #fb — Melissa O'Neil (@melluloid) September 7, 2014
.@tuskthemovie gives the phrase WHAT THE ACTUAL [frick]?! a legitimate reason to exist. In the best way. @ThatKevinSmith is back! #TIFF14 #fb
Yup, TUSK is as [frick]ed up as expected, with some crazy cameo casting and a heap or marine mammal weirdness @mmadnesstiff #tiff14 — Jason Gorber (@filmfest_ca) September 7, 2014
Yup, TUSK is as [frick]ed up as expected, with some crazy cameo casting and a heap or marine mammal weirdness @mmadnesstiff #tiff14
Tusk - [frick]kkkkked up, wild, weird, absurd only-from-the-mind-of-Kevin-Smith wacky fun. They went full walrus. It's alive! #walrusyes #tiff — Alex Billington (@firstshowing) September 7, 2014
Tusk - [frick]kkkkked up, wild, weird, absurd only-from-the-mind-of-Kevin-Smith wacky fun. They went full walrus. It's alive! #walrusyes #tiff
"While a shifting focus toward other characters dilutes the pleasure in the second half, the often funny film will please the director's devoted fan base and win over some schlock-horror lovers who may have little time for the Clerks universe." - John DeFore
"After a bit of a rough patch Kevin Smith is back with TUSK, a film which is maybe the best thing he's done in a decade, and strikingly different from anything he's ever tried before. It seems going microbudget – with the premise cribbed from a crazy story on his own wildly popular “Smodcast” – suited Smith just fine. Free from an obligation to investors, studios, or stars, Smith has made an absolutely macabre horror comedy that makes THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE seem almost mild in comparison." - Chris Bumbray
"I think even considering the film's short running time, there are some missteps, and the whipsaw tone of the film is going to really put some people off. But "Tusk" would seem to suggest that Kevin Smith has reconnected in some essential way with his love of filmmaking, and perhaps that he's even become a different person in those regards. If the premise itself puts you off, the film won't win you over, but Smith's faithful fans and audiences who are drawn in by the "WTF?!" premise are going to largely walk away feeling satiated." - Drew McWeeny
"You'll feel that it's Smith who has been reinvented most of all. He's using his skill set in a different genre, with a different agenda altogether, combining autobiographical elements, spooky late-night B-movie influences and a deeper thematic exploration of the nature of storytelling, to create something wholly unique and twisted. "Tusk" will be a lot of things to a lot of people (and we expect the reaction to the film to run the gamut from rapturous adoration to repulsed indifference), but at it’s best, “Tusk” is outlandishly unforgettable." - Drew Taylor
In the twenty years since his influential debut feature, Clerks, Kevin Smith has established himself as a singular voice in the American indie landscape with his wry observations of disaffected youth culture. With his 2011 horror film, Red State, and his new film, Tusk, Smith reinvents himself by bringing his comedic chops to a new, disturbing milieu. Wallace (Justin Long) co-hosts a popular podcast with his pal Teddy (Haley Joel Osment), focusing on cruel, mocking cringe humour as part of their mission to keep it “real and raunchy.” After his trip to Winnipeg to interview the “Kill Bill Kid” — a teen whose unfortunate samurai-sword video has gone viral — comes up empty, Wallace decides to make the trip worth his while and find a good story north of the forty-ninth parallel. A handwritten flyer he finds in a bar bathroom leads him to a grizzled old swab (Michael Parks) full of tall tales to share from his life of adventure at sea — and this is where Wallace’s voyage to the Great White North descends into straight-up madness.
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