Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt

It still feels surreal to say I wrote this movie with Tom Stern. Not just because it’s a movie about my favorite band, that I got to write with one of my favorite directors, but because who writes a documentary? You’d be surprised at the amount of narrative work and literal…

Simon

One of the best, most insightful warts-and-all band documentaries. A fun, sad look at a wacky, highly influential band’s ups and downs, as well as a look into how relationships evolve over time. The talking head panel was fantastic, except for the Johnny Depp jump scare.

Dr Michael Awesome

Gibby Haynes left the theater just as the movie caught up to his (alleged) musical collaboration with one Kid Rock. Only realized he had come back when he yelled “IT WAS BARBECUE SAUCE” from the back row when Paul Leary said he showed up at his place and started eating…

Nicole Veneto

I think we made a helluva film!

Tom Stern

saw gibby haynes on my way out of the theater and when some guy shoved in front of me to ask him for an autograph gibby took the guy’s marker out of his hand and started huffing it

drew

a lesbian puppet explosively shitting everywhere. that’s what cinema is all about.

mo

Early on we wanted to call it “the counting crows movie” and then people would come see it thinking they were gonna get the story behind mr jones and then NOPE. SORRY. You’re getting the locust abortion technician story instead!  Actually there may still be time to do…

Simon

Terrific look at a singular band.

DrewMcWeeny

Freak Scene. (Wasn’t expecting to cry at the end of a Butthole Surfers doc. A new essential if you have any affection for punk, psych or just incisive music profiles.) [Source: Beyond Fest Chicago Screening]

Jacob Knight