Line #0 Film/TrashHumpers


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2	[[caption-width-right:243:"We choose to live like free people."]]
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4	-> ''sometimes it's nice just to destroy shit''
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6	An independent film, directed by Creator/HarmonyKorine, tells the story of the title characters, four elderly hooligans who live up to their names, and the urban CrapsackWorld they inhabit.
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8	Senseless destruction, casual murder, abuse, and so much more are simply par for the course.
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11	!!This film provides examples of:
12	* BizarreTasteInFood: Pancakes dribbled with dishwashing soap...
13	* CloudCuckoolander: All the humpers and the people they meet, yes including the little boy at the beginning. Among them are a man who recites a poem about how great it would be to not have a head and a man in a maid outfit who seems to worship them.
14	* CrapsackWorld: The entire city, and the populace on the whole, is a total trainwreck.
15	* CreatorCameo: Harmony Korine is the man in the confederate shirt holding the camera.
16	* CreepyChild: Complete with rather menacing EvilLaugh.
17	** [[MadnessMantra "I TOLD YOU I'D KILL IT!!! I TOLD YOU I'D KEEL IT!!!]]
18	* CrowdChant: "Make it! Make it! Don't fake it!"
19	* DarkerAndEdgier: Somehow outdoes his entire previous filmography in this regard.
20	* DreadfulMusician: The OST is done by the cast themselves, and many of them are absolute hacks.
21	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Harmony wanted audiences to know exactly what they were in for. There are several scenes of the main characters, yes, humping trash cans and bags of garbage.
22	* FanService[=/=]FanDisservice: The scene wherein the Trash Humpers hire some hookers alternates between the two.
23	* GrotesqueGallery: The Trash Humpers are either supposed to be old, ''extremely'' poorly-aged people or vagrants wearing cheap rubber masks (the film never actually says), and everyone they meet is either hideous in appearance or hideous in nature.
24	* TheHyena: Most of the characters, but especially the boy in the suit and the Humper played by Korine himself, both of whom's laughter [[EvilLaugh tends to stick in the memory]].
25	* HollywoodToneDeaf: While the woman humper isn't exactly a bad singer, she's not a good one either.
26	* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: [[spoiler:The film ends with the female humper abducting an infant.]]
27	* PsychopathicManChild: The Trash Humpers, who have rejected civilized society and spend their days being absolute pricks to people when not sexually assaulting trash.
28	* NothingIsScarier: The film cuts out at one point, and cuts back to a (badly degraded) recording of children's shoes in a massive puddle of blood--the next scene is of the Trash Humpers waking up hung over.
29	* ShaggyDogStory: One of the people the humpers encounter tells a series of wildly homophobic "jokes" that don't actually have punchlines.
30	* SliceOfLife: For the most part, this is cut in a series of vignettes.
31	* [[SharpDressedMan Sharp Dressed Boy]]: The previously-mentioned CreepyChild wears a small tuxedo.
32	* ShirtlessScene: Some shots were from the men the humpers meet, including the trumpeter/acoustic guitarist.
33	* SignatureStyle: Just in case you thought Korine had gone soft with ''Film/MisterLonely'', the ickiness, GrotesqueGallery and CrapsackWorld traits that Korine's films are known for coming roaring back with a vengeance.
34	* StylisticSuck: The film is very obviously shot on a VHS format, as evident by the interference and brief moment of '''AUTO TRACKING'''.
35	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There's only one female humper out of the four. Notably, she's played by Harmony Korine's wife.
36	* WholesomeCrossdresser: The admirer of the humpers, a street performer wearing a French maid outfit. [[spoiler:They kill him in a drunken frenzy.]]

Context Film / TrashHumpers