I always liked Netflix, mainly because they’re not Blockbuster.  On top of that, their business model was superior, they didn’t have late fees, and they had a great selection.  But according to the film’s distributor, Netflix is refusing to carry Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers on the grounds that it’s “too inappropriate” for their subscribers.  Isn’t it awesome when a middle man suddenly starts acting like a taste maker?  Imagine your real estate agent refusing to sell you a house you want because it’s “inappropriate.”  NOT YOUR DEPARTMENT, F*CKFACE.

America’s video rental service of choice has all the previous Korine films – Mister Lonely, julien donkey-boy and Gummo. They offer the film he wrote the script for, Kids. They’re also making available the following films: Antichrist, Irreversible, Emmanuel in America, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and all the Jackass films. What do all these films have in common? They all feature more full-frontal nudity, on-screen sex, violence, rape and/or murder than is featured in Trash Humpers. [...]
From their perspective, they may be right: they certainly know their subscribers and their tastes, and might have a better awareness of their breaking point (we thought that might have been f*ckin’ Avatar). So it’s hard to fault them. But we do love a challenge! We don’t expect Netflix to carry anything they don’t want to, for whatever reason, but it reminds us that this is the price paid when we allow one entity to control the lion’s-share of content distribution. For a list of actual-factual mom-and-pop DVD sales-and/or-rental stores still fighting the good fight and carrying Trash Humpers for sale and/or rent, click here.  [Statement from Drag City via ThePlaylist]

You’ll be happy to learn, however, that they do still stock Taintlight. How is that on matters of “taste”, we always end up deferring to the stupidest people?  I’m a grown-ass man and I want to watch people hump trash, okay?  Thank God they’ve still got Rock of Love reruns, or else I don’t know what I’d do.

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At some point during Jackass 2 when Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze were terrorizing the neighborhood in old person makeup, I’m pretty sure I said, “Oh man, I could watch two hours of just this!”  Well, it sounds like Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo) took that as a challenge on his latest, Trash Humpers, which plays this week at the Toronto Film Festival.

The movie apparently follows a group of elderly people (read: actors wearing old man make-up a la Jackass) who vandalize and terrorize everything around them. It is also partially a musical… go figure. [FilmJunk]

Harmony Korine is on a lifelong campaign to convince you that he’s weird, but after watching the trailer for his latest, I feel like Homer Simpson when he got his giant beer in the Australia episode.  I mean, I guess it was pretty weird.  It’s just that when I hear a movie called Trash Humpers, I expect there to be some GD trash humping.  This barely has trash foreplay.  These bait and switch tactics are the reason this country’s in the sh’tter.

ADDITIONALLY: I got a free personality profile from eHarmony Korine once. I didn’t get any dates, but a gay midget poisoned my cats.