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Tyler Cornack and Ryan Koch’s recent sci-fi comedy Butt Boy made waves on the festival run for its bizarre sense of humor and plot. Cornack played a protagonist with an affinity for putting objects and people up his, well, you know. So, it’s no surprise that the follow-up, Tiny Cinema, would continue that same thread of absurdity. This time, Cornack and Koch teamed up with Butt Boy cinematographer William Morean to pen an anthology that connects six stories of peculiar comedy, each increasingly weirder than the last.

A mysterious fourth wall-breaking stranger (Paul Ford) serves as the guide, introducing the six segments while promising a subversion of expectations. With a wry wink, the stranger acknowledges that he’s likely not the host you expected. It’s a tone-setting bit that indicates an increasingly unpredictable jaunt through manic stories that occasionally brush with horror but always hovers within the...

The very existence of a movie called “Butt Boy” outside the porn realm is almost as ridiculous as its premise, which means it’s especially unusual to find that director Tyler Cornack plays it straight. In short, “Butt Boy” finds an obsessive police investigator on the trail of a deranged serial killer type who sticks children and objects up his ass and keeps them there.

With those expectations upfront, it’s a strange wonder to find that this slick and entertaining B-movie actually musters a downright subtle, even eerie tone for much of its 100 minutes. At a certain point, that ambitious gamble becomes untenable, as the ludicrous nature of the material overshadows its self-serious air, but not before Cornack delivers

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