The Runner

I've been a fan of Boy Harsher for a while now; don't know how many times I've listened to the Lesser Man album but it's alot. So I was pretty intrigued about this movie and I listened to the soundtrack before watching this and loved it so I had somewhat higher expectations for this. At first I was expecting something more of a visual album and thought that'd be cool but, nah. It's a lil incoherent, which isn't really the problem here. It's not very visually striking also which makes me sad. The meta bits of it being a movie within a movie interviewing the band really ruins it. The cast looks great and fitting, except for the teenager. Luckily Autonomy was my favorite song so I give ol' Handy a pass. I'd say only worth a watch if you're a fan but even then you could skip it. Definitely checkout the album though and their other albums. They're an amazing band, just not great filmmakers.

Nobody cares about your band or your awful haircuts. Please. Don't make any more movies. What is wrong with shudder will they allow anything? It's a paying sub.

Apparently Shudder has gotten looser with its definition of horror movie.

It's basically a long music video that cuts to documentary/behind the scenes with some band no one has ever heard of.

The last 5 minutes are some awkward white kid singing and dancing in front of the camera.

Found out about this movie through Boy Harsher, thought I was getting myself into a horror movie since it was on shudder. (Even a cheesy horror movie would have been fine, which is what's usually on shudder, and I love them). It wasn't though, it was just a shameless plug the entire time for BOAN and Boy Harsher...

The plot, and their idea of "scary" was the most vanilla idea, and as others have said here, the execution was absolutely abysmal. To say this was produced by freshmen college theater students would be an insult to those freshman students.

Bottom line - if you like the music, listen to the album, and BOAN's albums. If you don't mind quite a bit of cringe, then watch the movie.

2/10 since I like the music, and have liked that genre of music for years, but if the music wasn't in there, the movie would get a solid 1/10.

For some, this will be seen as a visually and musically pleasing short horror film. For Boy Harsher fans, I think it takes a deeper dive into the minds of Gus and Jae, who are known to pour a lot of emotion and personal experience into their art. I hope this is the first in a series of Boy Harsher films.