Tusk

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Tusk

R

2014

1h 41m

Horror

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A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an extraordinary past, and the American learns the man has a dark secret involving a walrus.

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Tusk is pleasantly ridiculous and charmingly self-deprecating, but that isn't enough to compensate for its thin, overstretched story.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

06/18/2016

'Tusk' opens with the sound of two men laughing at their own jokes, so I guess a doff of the cap is due to the filmmaker for encapsulating his movie so efficiently, right from the jump.

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Eric Kohn

IndieWire

10/28/2015

B+

Justin Long and Johnny Depp join the "Clerks" director for a weird, unpredictable movie that still feels like only Smith could have made it.

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Evan Williams

The Australian

10/16/2014

2.5/5

Parts of it are funny, parts are suspenseful and parts of it - to put it mildly - are hideously awful. Horrible may be a better word than horrific.

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Justin Brown

Medium Popcorn

Oct 29

2/5

For me, the Johnny Depp cameo ruined this film. I was really into it until he showed up and took the story in such a different direction that it couldn't recover..

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Brandon Collins

Medium Popcorn

Oct 29

1/5

It had a lot of promise, particularly in the first act, but it quickly goes off the rails. Lots of rambling coupled with inconsistent performances made this a chore to get through.

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Aug 11

2/10

...You could save a lot of time by just fast forwarding to the scene where Wallace meets Howard, and the scene with the transformation reveal. Everything else is unfunny blubber.

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Tristan M

@tristxn 2h

Tusk made me want to rip my eyes out but in a good way. It’s bizarre, absurd, and worth a watch at least once.

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Dustin S.

@Dustin574 4d

It was a horror movie that scared me. Therefore I gave it 3 stars.

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Zach L.

@RT20146564 5d

Weirdest movie ever

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Nick N

@RT59303835 5d

This movie is so horrible that I was willing to give up some personal info to RT haha. WTF was going through Smith's mind? I watched out of of loyalty to Smith's genuis what... 30 years ago? But this thing? It's not even a movie. It's diarrhea.

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Sonya F

@RT21100018 Apr 16

This movie is truly horrible and despicable. I watched it and now I can’t look at walruses the same because all I think of is how terrible this movie is. Kevin smith must be mentally challenged to come up with this movie idea. This is genuinely one of the worst movies ever, I can tell he ran out of ideas when he was coming up with this thing. Kevin Smith, more like KS, more like I would rather kms than watch this movie again.

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Joe L

@RT37248911 Apr 6

I literally threw away 2 hours of my life. This was the dumbest movie I've ever seen and I've seen Human Centipede. If I can save one person from watching this movie with my review, I'd be happy. You're welcome

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Synopsis

A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an extraordinary past, and the American learns the man has a dark secret involving a walrus.

Director: Kevin Smith
Producer: Shannon McIntosh, Sam Englebardt, William D. Johnson, David S. Greathouse
Screenwriter: Kevin Smith
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Demarest Films, SModcast Pictures, XYZ Films
Rating: R (Language|Gore|Sexual Content|Some Disturbing Violence)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.8M
Runtime: 1h 41m