{"id":577179,"date":"2026-07-09T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/577179\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:48:15","slug":"buddy-trailer-casper-kelly-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/577179\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Buddy’ Trailer: Casper Kelly Horror Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking for some late-night weirdness to get you through the dog days of summer, look no further than \u201cBuddy<\/a>.\u201d The latest effort from \u201cToo Many Cooks\u201d auteur Casper Kelly<\/a> is a genre-bending work of meta horror that stars Keegan-Michael Key as a fluorescent orange unicorn who hosts a kids\u2019 TV show that\u2019s reminiscent of \u201cBarney.\u201d But while such shows are famous for uncritically portraying children as living with puppet-like creatures without any adult supervision in sight, \u201cBuddy\u201d follows that premise to a twisted conclusion that shows what lies beyond the wholesome 22-minute intervals we see on TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuddy\u201d premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film<\/a> Festival, where it was acquired by Roadside Attractions and Saban Films<\/a>. It was an immediate hit, with critics and audiences alike praising it for capturing the magic of Kelly\u2019s earlier projects on a much larger scale. <\/p>\n

\"Na<\/a> \"Steven<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cEver since he released the viral Adult Swim sitcom intro pastiche \u2018Too Many Cooks\u2019 in 2014,\u00a0Casper Kelly\u00a0has been inching closer and closer to a true mainstream breakout. Subsequent projects \u2014 from the Cheddar Goblin in \u2018Mandy\u2019 and the video game streaming satire \u2018Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough\u2019 to the\u00a0meta horror film \u2018Adult Swim Yule Log<\/a>\u2018\u00a0and its clever 2024 sequel \u2014 have all established him as an auteur with instantly recognizable stylistic preferences,\u201d IndieWire\u2019s Sundance review read. \u201cHis obsessions include the quirks of disposable family media from the \u201980s and \u201990s, the hand-crafted set design and puppetry that went into making the aforementioned analog slop, and treating post-production additions like end credits and theme songs as real in-universe occurrences that characters have to navigate. And most of all, he appears to love nothing more than introducing you to one type of media before revealing that you\u2019ve actually been watching something entirely different.\u201d<\/p>\n

The review continued, \u201cHis new\u00a0film\u00a0\u2018Buddy\u2019 gives Kelly the chance to play all of those hits on the biggest canvas of his career. The results are electric. A nesting doll of media that begins with a meticulous recreation of a kids\u2019 TV show that quickly turns bloody, the film proceeds to take audiences down a rabbit hole that transcends mediums and timelines as a group of cute kids try to figure out how to stop a giant orange unicorn from murdering them. It\u2019s as twisty and stimulating as Kelly\u2019s most complicated work, but it\u2019s all wrapped in a premise that\u2019s simple enough to reach beyond his core audience: What if \u2018Barney\u2019 was a horror movie?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBuddy\u201d is directed by Casper Kelly, who co-wrote the script with Jamie King. The film also stars Cristin Milioti, Delaney Quinn, Tristan Borders, Madison Skyy Polan, Caleb \u201cCJ\u201d Williams, Luke Speakman, Patton Oswalt, Clint Howard, Michael Shannon, and Topher Grace.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuddy\u201d opens in theaters on Friday, August 28. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re looking for some late-night weirdness to get you through the dog days of summer, look no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[245784,245785,18,117,597,19,17,327,1983],"class_list":["post-577179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-buddy","tag-casper-kelly","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-trailers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116891045309583956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}