The Backyard

Name: The Backyard
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 29, 2003
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Chaos, Scar, The Lizard

2003

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HIQI Media | Release Date: August 29, 2003 | Unrated

Starring: Chaos, Scar, The Lizard

Summary: A documentary about the secret world of "backyard wrestling" where amateurs attempt stunts and matches utilizing the most extreme weapons imaginable, all played out in a ring often made of barbed wire fencing.

Director: Paul Hough

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 80 min

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Charles Martin

In short, this is an x-treme documentary, as riveting as a road accident and a lot more bloody. That this film might give other young people ideas is something that keeps me (and probably director Hough) awake at night. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

The movie is not for the squeamish, but for those who are unafraid to look at what is, perhaps, their own metaphorical "backyard," for those willing to stare into the long, dark night of the contemporary American soul, its bone-crunching message is worth hearing. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

This underground scene makes other "extreme sports" look as harmless as tiddlywinks. Read full review

Janice Page

The most disturbing thing about this grass-roots-inspired extreme-wrestling documentary by Paul Hough is how much worse you expect the violence to be. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Chances are you'll watch most of this documentary with both hands over your eyes, but as a window into a particular kind of insanity seizing kids in heartland America it's enthralling. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Though engaging from beginning to end, be warned that this is also harrowing, utterly depressing stuff. Read full review

David Sterritt

Eventually you realize the whole movie has been about young showoffs who think it's uproarious to gross out neighborhood grownups. Read full review

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dfrooah

Aug 30, 2010

I felt like I was watching an extended scene from Gummo sans the superior editing. But because I couldn't tell myself it was fiction it was hard to finish.

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