Kuso

Name: Kuso
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: July 21, 2017
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Arden Banks, Byron Bowers, David Firth, George Clinton, Hannibal Buress

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| Release Date: July 21, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Arden Banks, Byron Bowers, David Firth, George Clinton, Hannibal Buress, Pretty Ricki Fontaine, Regan Farquhar, Shane Carpenter, Tim Heidecker, Zack Fox

Summary: Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, KUSO depicts the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare. Viewers travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived, experiencing a hallucination that is half-Cronenberg, half-Ren & Stimpy. [Shudder]

Director: Flying Lotus

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

Jun 30, 2017

Kuso is a hallucinatory, scatological, grotesque, and occasionally hysterical work of utter mania, the kind of wild cinema that cuts through the noise of all safer, more marketable filmmaking. Read full review

April Wolfe

Jul 19, 2017

Kuso is an astounding feat of animation, humor, and practical effects. Read full review

Chris Plante

Jul 4, 2017

“It’s the first movie / song / book about life in the Trump era” has become trite, so I’ll say this instead: the movie is often quite literally a load of shit. But that can be comfortingly frank when it feels like the world is on fire, but we’re all just going to smile anyway. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jul 20, 2017

Kuso won’t be for everybody. It’s gross, it’s repetitive, and if it has a point, it’s hard to discern. But it’s not artless. Every densely layered image of oozing pus and gassy orifices is as imaginatively rendered as it is disgusting. Read full review

John DeFore

Jul 27, 2017

Sensitive readers should be informed that Kuso is not for you; even those with a strong tolerance for monster-movie gore are far from guaranteed to accept its warm, clumpy bath of repugnant ickiness. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Crump

Jul 20, 2017

If nothing else, think of it as a hilariously repugnant curio, the kind of transgressive art you’ll be unable to unpack because you’ll be too busy chugging ginger ale to bother. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jun 30, 2017

The referentiality of “Kuso,” its general snark, and even its defensive self-criticism (characters state “I hate this movie!” more than once) fail to make it any more funny or inspired, let alone any less of a shapeless chore to sit through. Read full review

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LunaticDancer

Sep 25, 2017

Kuso is a masterpiece. It embraces the ugliness of human, expressed by tumors and bodily fluids, but also by fears and not so honorous behaviour, and takes you on a dark, yet very humorous trip.
If you're disgusted, then remember - your disgust is just a rejection of a part of your humanity.Kuso is a masterpiece. It embraces the ugliness of human, expressed by tumors and bodily fluids, but also by fears and not so honorous behaviour, and takes you on a dark, yet very humorous trip.
If you're disgusted, then remember - your disgust is just a rejection of a part of your humanity. It may be wrong, but that's not your fault.
If you crave unpredictable weirdness, you will surely enjoy it. I promise.… Expand

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asthenosphere

Sep 10, 2017

KUSO is really a movie you're either going to love or hate, it's been said before by producer of the film Flying Lotus who single handedly created this movie by himself. If you have an artistic persona and have the brain power to sit through some twisted and "nightmarish" story telling thenKUSO is really a movie you're either going to love or hate, it's been said before by producer of the film Flying Lotus who single handedly created this movie by himself. If you have an artistic persona and have the brain power to sit through some twisted and "nightmarish" story telling then this movie is definitely worth your time. If you're looking for blood and gore then you wont find much here, this is some uneasy stuff with some real quirky moments too. Also artist David Firth comes to mind with series such as Salad Fingers and Sock, not to mention Cream, the short film also released on Brainfeeder Films earlier this year.

I think if you're an average Jo then this movie isn't for you, simple and clean.… Expand

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iCronic

Aug 6, 2017

I liked Flying Lotus´ LA EP´s almost 10 years ago but his experimental approach works better in music because Kuso is just a piece of fu*king trash

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