Trash Humpers

People are really hard on this film because they all want a gummo 2. Guess what? It's never gonna happen. I took this film as harmony giving a little something his old audience. I haven't seen one single frame of spring breakers but it's safe to say Mr. Korine may be heading in a different direction. I don't know though I don't know the Guy. I also took this as kinda a homage to old 90's snuff VHS tapes. Back around 95 one of my friends had a VHS tape that had on it, some gory bootleg skinny puppy videos, flower of flesh and blood and porn. It was a copy of a copy of a copy. The quality was so shitty we thought flower was real. He made my copy as we watched it and I showed it to countless others. Trash humpers may not have any thing in common with flower,nine broken movie,August underground. Except for the style its edited or not edited. Trash bumpers should be veiwed as something more than a film.I loved it from start to finish. Also I bought this DVD when it came out I'm new to posting reviews. Check out my YouTube channel. Veryfinecrapvideos

I think this is a classic mainly for the sheer originality of taking the found footage genre and totally warping it. To fully understand what this project was about you have to know the point of it. Harmony said that he wanted to make a movie on vhs and leave a select amount around populated areas for people to find. The end product is exactly that or has that feel. There are no moments where an actual special effect occurs. There are disturbing moments that veer this into a sort of horror movie category. There is not a single interpretation to this. This is like an on the spot performance art piece. This is not a movie and should not be placed in the same context as his other films. This is a kind of abstract experience that actually sort of comments on the compartmentalization of the mind in relation to commercial art and over consumption of negative media. My favorite Korine film will always be Julien Donkey Boy as i feel this is a masterpiece. But this is not a film its like a single minded observation where you are not really supposed think in depth about it but just witness an extreme for of like a white trashness as if it were a syndrome propagated by media and the lack of academic atmosphere. It can be viewed with abstract though or without.

First off, let me start by saying that the title is important. If you are the type of person that would be interested in seeing a movie called, "Trash Humpers", you are the type of person that will LIKE a movie called, "Trash Humpers". I am. I loved it. If you would be turned off by such a title, you will be not like this film. Move on. For those of us that are attracted to artistic filth, you found another home in Harmony Korine's masterpiece. For the record, this title goes down in history as one of the most memorable in cinema, right there with "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." I will assume if you are this type of kick-ass person, you already know what this movie is about. I won't go over the idea of the film, just why it is special. What kind of genre does this film belong in? No one can clearly agree. Some say "Horror". Others say "Dark Comedy". Isn't it amazing that what makes one person laugh can horrify another? Just trying to figure out the category of film this belongs in is challenging enough. This viewing experience feels like a collection of performance art pieces. It also feels like a popular collection of "You Tube" clips waiting to happen. You get the special opportunity to spend over an hour with a group of lunatics. I personally find insane people to be among the most fascinating. This film delivers in the insane department. In fact, I would say that this is a new benchmark in insanity captured on film. (By the way, I am aware that I am saying film instead of VHS. This movie is art. It is a FILM, not a MOVIE.) "Trash Humpers" plays like a collage. Not exactly like (but not exactly unlike) William S. Burroughs's "Cut-Up" technique. After all, you could take all the scenes of the film and mix them up and you could still watch the film without disturbing it's flow. Sometimes, I say things like, "This is one of the best films I have seen this year". But, how often do I say, "This is one of the best films I have seen in my life?" This is one of those rare moments. It is a mirror to your own uniqueness. You get the wonderful opportunity to remind yourself that YOU ARE ON A DIFFEREN'T LEVEL. Celebrate that! Buy "Trash Humpers" immediately. Beg, borrow, steal or KILL to own this film. But then again, what do I know? I'm a patriot. I hide in trees. Isaac Keith Martinez 2010

"Trash Humpers" is not a traditional movie, you'd probably expect that much based on the title, alone. It's more along the lines of Richard Linklater's "Slacker," in that it "follows" characters with a sort of drifting, dreamy, almost non-existent narrative. What is "Trash Humpers" about? That depends on who's watching it, I suppose. It's one of those movies that probably means something different to everybody who watches it. To me, it's a statement on how the youth of today are going to turn out-- the way we see the geriatric hoodlums in this film. But my interpretation of the film isn't as important as the film itself. It was filmed on old VHS tapes and cut on a pair of VCRs, giving it a haunting, dream-like look that comes out particularly well in the nighttime scenes. Harmony Korine stated somewhere that he got the idea for the movie while walking his dog through an empty parking lot one evening and seeing the light shine down in beams through the darkness, illuminating the macadam-- "there's something... sinister about it," he said. And that's the core idea explored in this movie: the sinister things that go on beyond the views of normality, particularly in the night. It's not everybody. People who enjoy movies starring Megan Fox trying to look pretty while giant robots fight in the background will not enjoy this movie, nor will people who want to argue who shot first: Han or Greedo. But people who enjoy existential philosophy, quantum physics, beat literature and avant-garde art house films will LOVE "Trash Humpers."

This movie was terrible, discus-ting arrived with sheet sets I ordered and got knocked out of container clamp and got all scratched up,So shipping was lousy with this one. I would have returned it If it was a movie I liked and wanted to keep.Waste of money and time to watch it.Disappointed in Harmony Korine for producing this one, And to expensive. Trash Humpers is for the Trash.

Korine is well known for his over the top shock, I'm a huge fan off all his past efforts.(Gummo, being in my top 10 list)If your looking for story, don't come here, but what nightmares really have stories anyway. Supposedly it's basis is from Korine growing up in New York, and being awakened every night to bums on the street corner drinking, yelling, and inappropriate fortifications with trash cans.(hence the name)In a way the film is quite scary to me. While viewing I realized, that if I was a child and witnessed this live or even on film, well, I'm not even sure how to explain it really? I was speechless through most of the film, and I think that Mr. Korine was very successful in the points he was trying to get across.(if he even intended at any?) It was filmed using the dogma 95, created by Lars von Trier, and similar in it's grainy representation as Julien Donkey Boy. A hand held camera, no over dubs, all live audio. I must say that some of the images in this film were burned into me, like pausing your plasma t.v. for hours, only to press play and still see the burnt outline of the last picture. There is also a love hate thing going on, I'm not sure really? Like I said before I'm a fan of Korine, so maybe this is by default? But!!!...If you are tired of the norm, and like a little hot sauce on your french fries, then I think you might appreciate this film. If you found it laying on the street(with no label) and watched it, I think you would be confused as to what to do with it. Should you show it to your friends? Should you throw it in the garbage? Maybe you should turn it into the police? Personally I like that feeling when watching a film, it's alive and breathing, as apposed to these teenage commercial disappointments they keep trying to shovel feed us...

It can be frustrating to faithfully follow the career of a true artist. They may not make the choices nor follow the progression one had hoped for. Harmony Korine is that sort of artist. Those taking on Trash Humpers for entertainment will find that and more if they enter the experience w i d e open. I haven't been this amused by a film for a long time, it brought back recollections of Gummo (another H. Korine masterwork) but explores a different niche and makes me wanna get him the lifetime achievement award at the Oscars. Really. Let's just slap the thing out of the hands of whatever living fossil receives it this season for a body of plastic Hollywood film work and hand it over to Harmony Korine...his body of work is already beyond what any of them have ever manifested. Trash Humpers is magnificent, and nearly impossible to describe well. Many will love it, many may hate it, many many should see it.

"Trash Humpers," in my opinion, is Harmony Korine's best film. He meant it as a comedy, and it does work on that level, but more importantly, "Trash Humpers" is an allegory for the 21st Century and the meaningless search for "freedom" in a world of garbage. We are all "Trash Humpers," mindlessly humping the remains of the American Dream. Like a dog going at a velour beanbag, we rub ourselves raw on the filthy trash of pointless violence, the day-to-day nightmares of existence, and revel in our decadent world falling into economic and environmental ruin. "Trash Humpers" is the greatest statement in film, yet made, on the horrors of 21st Century life.

so odd as to narrowly avoid the trash can