Comments on: TRASH HUMPERS

By: SPRING BREAKERS – Hammer to Nail

SPRING BREAKERS – Hammer to Nail — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:46:37 +0000

[…] has always wanted his work to catch mainstream fire. Of course, an experiment like Trash Humpers (flat-out brilliant, methinks) certainly wasn’t going to be the one to do it, but if you compare these films, they […]

By: Hammer to Nail » Blog Archive » DVD RELEASES 2010/9/21

Hammer to Nail » Blog Archive » DVD RELEASES 2010/9/21 — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0000

[…] Humpers (Drag City) — Read my review of Harmony Korine’s American trashterpiece, then buy it on […]

By: Hammer to Nail » Blog Archive » BUILDER, THE – Setting Down Roots

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:06:09 +0000

[…] acts feels so uniquely appropriate. If Drag City’s distribution of Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers (also cited in the Times piece) is the equivalent of a confrontational punk tour, then The Builder […]

By: don r. lewis

don r. lewis — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:53:55 +0000

A fine piece on a movie I too cannot stop thinking about. It rises above (or sinks below…or, better, doesn’t equivocate) “like” and “dislike” and maybe your point about it hearkening back to the VHS days is where it’s at. I’m glad I saw it though and once its fest run is done, hope I never see it again on purpose. I’d much rather be at a friends place or like, wander into some drunken after-hours party at some random persons house and find it on.

After I initially saw it and heard Korine’s comments on how he wanted to distribute it by just…leaving it around…I was taken by the idea. But now I sadly realize leaving a videotape around either

A) Makes people terrified of what’s on it
or
B) Will remain where it is because no one has a VHS player