Buddy
Casper Kelly
- 2026
- USA
- Horror
- 1h35mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
In her colorful TV show, where all is song, dance and joy, sweet unicorn Buddy teaches children to be happy. But one child refuses to comply. Buddy is upset. Buddy wants to kill…
The memorable Too Many Cooks (2014) had already offered us a glimpse of Casper Kelly’s jubilant irreverence, (he’s also the co-writer of the very unhinged Mandy, in 2018), as he subverted children’s TV shows of the 70s and 80s. Buddy pushes the concept into a cathodic nightmare multiverse, where characters try to escape from their own fiction. Behind his debonair mascot turned psychopath slasher, Kelly goes beyond the simple slaughter game and dynamites the dictatorship of benevolence in children’s TV shows and their power to format little clones sitting on the same sofas watching the same screens. Between Videodrome and Sesame Street. Unimaginable.
Screenings
05/09 • 19h00 • Screen 500
08/09 • 19h30 • Screen 300
Credits
- With : Delaney Quinn, Caleb Williams, Bennie Taylor, Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace...
- Screenplay : Casper Kelly, Jamie King
- Photography : Zach Kuperstein
- Editing : Josh Ethier
- Music by : Michael Yezerski, Shawn Coleman
- Production : Tyler Davidson, J. D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules, Tracy Rosenblum, Drew Sykes
