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Audience Member Joel Potrykus film drops us not only into the physical world of a failing comic but into his head as well. The idea of exploring the level of anger behind stand-up comedy is not new, but Potrykus takes it all the a very new level. Joshua Burge is an awesome fit for this director's cleverly unnerving study into alienation, failure, rage and sociopathic descent. This is movie that refuses to settle into predictability. Great film. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member If Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' & 'The King of Comedy', Bronstein's 'Frownland' and Schumacher's 'Falling Down' (with a touch of Cronenberg & Korine) had engaged in an orgy while next to a raging inferno, you'd get this movie. Trevor is a struggling comedian who is also a pyromaniac. One day he makes a deal with a man dressed as the devil in exchange for a golden apple. The apple he eats in it's entirety while on stage and it boosts his confidence while slowly sucking the life out of him. As a way of removing his humility, but to remind him of it, someone in an ape costume parades around like the man in the rabbit suit from Donnie Darko. It plays an existential role in Trevor's toilet flush of a life, but you can't help but find a likable quality to him. Joshua Burge as Trevor was utterly convincing as the psycho comedian with a pyromania fetish. The anti-funny stance to the stand up world was perfectly satirized and the real world surrounding Trevor's struggle was harsh and sad. Still, it's an impressively made movie with a LOT of angry energy buried underneath. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member The first hour of the movie was a depressing, clerk-style but with awful acting disaster. The "devil" portion was sort of clever but not a strong enough finale to make up for a dreary 90%. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member While the delivery isn't the smoothest, this portrait of a sociopath comic still hits its keenly-observed marks. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member A brilliantly fresh and saucy, symbolically packed comedy ( or should I say stand up comedy ? ) about the absurdity of life!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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