Monday, January 19, 2015

Cooking with Huck Botko (1996-1998, Huck Botko)

This is actually a series of short films featured on a faux-'shockumentary' called "Ensuring Your Place in Hell". These shorts are pretty much considered the 'highlight' of that compilation.

Each one involves Robert Botko - aka. Huck Botko - getting even with close family members who have wronged him at one point or another. He does this by preparing their favorite dessert with some kind of repulsive extra "ingredient" and watching them eat it, usually each year on Christmas. Additional "fixings" include homeless guy mucus in Dad's fruitcake, roadkill in Mom's baked Alaska, hepatitis infected blood in Sis's cheesecake and his bro gets a graham cracker cream pie which you can only imagine what he has some helpful gentlemen add to that...

It doesn't take a genius to tell that these are 100% staged - especially if you do a quick search of Huck Botko in which you'll find that he went on to write and executive produce several feature films, such as "The Last Exorcism" 1 and 2. Still, each one of these (each dessert getting it's own 7-12 minute short segment...) is amusing enough in a senseless kind of way, although it's nothing too 'shocking'.

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