Butcher Boys

Butcher Boys (2013)

You are what you eat

A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh - dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.

Date of release
2013-09-06
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (63)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Horror, Action, Comedy, Thriller
Director
Justin Meeks, Duane Graves

Casting

Interesting facts

Butcher Boys is a 2012 American horror cannibal film written and produced by Kim Henkel, who co-created 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Tobe Hooper. The film was directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks. It was originally titled Boneboys.

Production

Kim Henkel originally wrote Butcher Boys in 2008 as a modern sequel to 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which he co-created with Tobe Hooper. He later re-wrote Butcher Boys as a standalone film. Richard Whittaker of The Austin Chronicle wrote, "...a cannibal film, loosely adapted from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, in rural Texas? Hard not to see the connection."

Production took place in both Austin and San Antonio. It was directed and edited by two of Henkel's previous film students, Duane Graves and Justin Meeks, with whom he had collaborated in 2009 on the Bigfoot horror feature The Wild Man of the Navidad.

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