#bc butcher

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Trailer for “first pre-historic slasher” DC Butcher

[swampflix]

"As something that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s seen a modern teen’s Tumblr or Instagram account, what B.C. Butcher excels at most is aesthetic. In the opening credits, girls pose in leopard print dresses, furs, and boas to a Coasters-type novelty song. In-between the film’s lightly gory kills, the same kids goof off while a punk soundtrack that sounds like it was provided by Burger Records, with band names like Vicky and the Vengents and The Ugly Kids, provides a pleasant aural backdrop for a mildly horrific version of playing dress up. These are, honestly, the best moments in the film. My favorite scene overall might be the mid-movie music video where The Ugly Kids mime one of their tunes on watermelon instruments. Bowling has a great eye for pure aesthetic, a saving grace that elevates her debut high above similar micro-budget horrors like Shark Exorcist & Desperate Teenage Lovedolls."

[brokehorrorfan]

B.C. Butcher will be released on Blu-ray on January 10 via Troma. The film is notable for several reasons: it's the first prehistoric slasher, it's shot on 16mm film, and it's directed by 17-year-old girl Kansas Bowling.

The cast includes Kadeem Hardison (A Different World), Kato Kaelin (famed O.J. Simpson trial witness), and Rodney Bingenheimer (KROQ DJ). Troma president Lloyd Kaufman produced the effort.

Read on for the special features, trailer, and synopsis.

Special features:

Introduction by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman

Audio commentary with director Kansas Bowling and producer Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman's tell-all interview with director Kansas Bowling

Pre-historic first scene

B.C. Butcher goes apesh*t in Hollywood

2 music videos directed by Kansas Bowling

Theatrical trailer

Troma Now! Xtreme Edition

Radiation March

Tromatic trailers

B.C. Butcher is the paleo-party horror movie of the stone-ages! When a tribe of hot cave women impart cruel, violent justice onto one of their own and leave the dead cave girl's body tied to a tree, their fate takes a turn for the worse! Stalked by a hideously deformed, giant, pre-historic monster called B.C. Butcher, the cave women are violently destroyed one by one despite warnings by the tribe's blind prophetess. Who will save them?

[afrikoka]

Kansas Arm

[cinema-stench]

B.C. Butcher (2016)

Treacherous cavewoman Dina is put to death by the leader of her tribe, Neandra, for sneaking around with her man, super cave stud Rex. When her body is taken overnight, the tribe believes a dangerous beast, or perhaps a butcher, is among them. Not able to accept that she has let anything bad happen to her tribe, Neadra denies anything more than a small tiger is responsible for the mystery. However, one by one, the tribeswomen are slain by the mythical butcher who is possessed to kill by his love for Dina’s ghost until she has her revenge.

Before getting started, I must admit that I love caveman horror movies (or the limited few that exist). I watch Neanderthal Man semi-regularly, I intentionally spent money on a copy of Memorial Valley Massacre, and I’ve even had my noggin squeezed by late Eegah! actor Richard Kiel. So when I heard Troma was releasing “the first prehistoric slasher film,” I became excited. Shot on 16mm by seventeen-year-old Kansas Bowling, B.C. Butcher plays less like a slasher movie and more like a comedic 1950’s drive-in flick along the lines of The Wild Women of Wongo or Prehistoric Women. It seriously feels like watching a long lost cheese-fest resurrected by Something Weird Video, and that is the film’s biggest selling point.

The groovy, retro nature of B.C. Butcher is highlighted by a fun cast of characters and absurd attack scenes. Like the best of the worst from the golden age of B-movies, the performances here are all overacted to the nth degree. The attack scenes are sparse and quick with most of the blood and guts being spilt during the film’s opening execution, which will possibly disappoint those who may be expecting the slasher movie this was partially marketed as. The makeup of the butcher is simply a hideous mask with little to no effort on the part of the effects team to try to blend it with the actor’s face; though, the makeup of Dina the corpse is effective, if inconsistent.

B.C. Butcher is a fast paced movie, clocking in at only 51 minutes. The editing is brisk and leaves no room for boring filler (yet exciting filler is left all over the place). The wardrobe is almost entirely made from leopard-print fabric, only adding to the film’s drive-in production aesthetic. The location appears to be exclusively on or near a Southern California hiking trail (that I’ve probably been on), reminding me of yet another old popcorn movie called Equinox (coincidentally, also featuring a large caveman). The soundtrack is a mix of oldies and garage rock, and in one scene we have pioneering KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer introducing a prehistoric rock group for a brief musical number. This movie really wants to keep the viewer’s attention, and just might.

With B.C. Butcher, director Bowling is practicing an art of indie filmmaking once thought abandoned upon the arrival of the 70’s. Instead of being an authentic caveman movie, this is truly an authentic caveman B-movie. Very much teen-oriented like a lot of the old features of this sort, Butcher is low on violence but high on fun. It’s not much to look at, but it’s a solid and unpretentious effort by some much-needed young talent. –N. Weaver

[hardcockforhitchcock]

I just caught up with my friends from Troma and they have a new release that sounds really fun!

BC Butcher is a prehistoric slasher film made by a 17 year old girl in California. 

Once again, it appears Troma succeeds with their B movie camp. Check it out if you like that kind of thing! 

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