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Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, Fried Barry from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release

Fried Barry on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-Ray on October 5, 2021. Check out the trailer:

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Written and directed by Ryan Kruger in his feature directorial debut,...

An extraterrestrial picks a junkie to inhabit in this seedy, inconsistently acted but often sharply comic urban tale

This gleefully lurid, picaresque journey through a few days in Cape Town for an alien inhabiting the body of a skeevy junkie named Barry (Gary Green) won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. But scattered among the gross-out scenes – involving violence or bodily fluids or both, the bouts of softcore shagging, and innumerable garish “trippy” bits where the protagonist and his acquaintances do drugs – there’s actually some reasonably sharply comic, surprisingly touching and straight-up well-acted moments.

Presumably, the key variables are the improvising performers that first-time director Ryan Kruger, fluffing up what was originally a short into feature length, collaborated with for each scene. Some, like Chanelle de Jager, who plays Barry’s longsuffering wife and is given to long profane rants in Afrikaans about Barry’s uselessness, have real...

Stars: Chanelle De Jager, Gary Green, Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Jonathan Pienaar | Written and Directed by Ryan Kruger

I know of Ryan Kruger from some of his short film work things, such as 2014’s The Golden Rule and, of course, his 2017 short thing, Fried Barry. I was pleased as punch, you could say, when I heard about the feature length motion picture thing named, well… Fried Barry that would be hitting the screens in 2020. Kruger certainly has an eye for the absurd, but he is also able to adapt and write emotional view-points and tell stories with more than just skin. He can give some real flesh, muscle and blood to what he creates, so I was on board for this peculiar flick.

The first thing that hit me, right in the jaw, about Fried Barry is just how damned creative it is. I love when a weird oddball...

An alien abduction leads to a deadly night in Cape Town in Ryan Kruger's feature directorial debut, Fried Barry, which has been acquired by Shudder and will be streamable in multiple countries beginning Thursday, May 6th:

Press Release: New York – March 23, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired South African film Fried Barry for release in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, May 6. The feature directorial debut from award-winning music video director Ryan Kruger and starring newcomer Gary Green, the genre pushing, acid-washed, sci-fi horror has been praised by critics and embraced by fans around the world.

Fried Barry, a Ryan Kruger thing, follows the story of a drug-addled degenerate who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town.

Exclusive: AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder has picked up South African horror-thriller Fried Barry for domestic and a host of international territories.

The film is the feature debut from music video director Ryan Kruger and stars newcomer Gary Green as a drug-addled degenerate who takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. The film is an extension of Kruger’s 2017 short of the same name.

Shudder will debut the movie in North America, the UK and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand on May 6.

The pic had its world premiere at the 2020 Cinequest Film Festival and also screened at Sitges, Fantasia, Grimmfest and Fantaspoa. It is produced by James C. Williamson and Kruger and executive produced by Nicolai Fuglsig. Williams and Kruger combined on the screenplay. Also in the cast are Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Chanelle de Jager,...

Stars: Chanelle De Jager, Gary Green, Bianka Hartenstein, Sean Cameron Michael, Jonathan Pienaar | Written and Directed by Ryan Kruger

I know of Ryan Kruger from some of his short film work things, such as 2014’s The Golden Rule and, of course, his 2017 short thing, Fried Barry. I was pleased as punch, you could say, when I heard about the feature length motion picture thing named, well… Fried Barry that would be hitting the screens in 2020. Kruger certainly has an eye for the absurd, but he is also able to adapt and write emotional view-points and tell stories with more than just skin. He can give some real flesh, muscle and blood to what he creates, so I was on board for this peculiar flick.

The first thing that hit me, right in the jaw, about Fried Barry is just how damned creative it is. I love when a weird oddball...