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There’s something about Kevin Smith that I know I should love, but I can never find. Clerks holds iconic status in the indie scene, but it didn’t captivate me the way I think it should have. This isn’t a knock against Smith or the cast by any means, but I’ve always felt disconnected from a film that I knew I should have appreciated more. Everything that followed was essentially hit or miss: I liked Mallrats and Chasing Amy a lot and enjoyed Dogma, but everything afterwards was very bland and fell into these weird un-funny films that were stretching too far to be funny. Ironically enough, I enjoy Smith’s ventures outside of film (like the SModcast and Comic Book Men.
Unfortunately, it seems like Smith’s off-beat sense of humor is still being utilized with his next film, a horror starring Justin Long called Tusk. Amidst all of the bad Canada jokes is a story about Long’s character, a podcaster that travels around interviewing interesting, off-beat characters. However, when traveling to Canada to interview a seafarer sharing his adventures, he finds himself held captive by a maniacal man. Tusk also stars Genesis Rodriguez and Haley Joel Osment.
Tusk will be in theaters on September 19th.