FOUR POINT FOUR MILLION HITS OF WHAAAAAT?!?!?
THE TIMELESS WHAT-THE-FUCKITUDE OF “STAY AT HOME DAD”
It’s kind of hard to believe that it’s been twelve whole years since a bunch of my weird friends and I got together and made a short film for the ages. As to WHAT ages, I couldn’t possibly say.
All I know I this:
It started with mad genius Cody Goodfellow, his awesome then-wife Tori English, and their newborn daughter. This quickly spun into a deranged script that triggered the first full collaboration between myself and Andrew Kasch, as co-directors.
Next thing you know, we’d formed a nucleus of chaos, rigorously structured for maximum brain-meltitude, with nothing but fun in our hearts.
And as of today, that little Lovecraftian Bizarro horror comedy reached 4.4 MILLION VIEWS. Which is even more insane than the film itself!
My nutshell description of Stay At Home Dad has always gone something like this: “It starts with this guy with enormous boobs, nursing his baby and crying a lot. Then it gets weird from there.” Which is still pretty accurate.
But here’s what Andrew put on his YouTube page, when we finally shared it with the world at large.
An out-of-work father goes to extreme measures to raise his baby daughter...with bizarre consequences. Winner of the Audience Award (Bronze) at the Fantasia International Film Festival 2012.
Co-directed by John Skipp (The Light at the End, Rose: The Bizarro Zombie Musical) and Andrew Kasch (Thirsty, Never Sleep Again: The Elm St. Legacy). Written by Cody Goodfellow (All-Monster Action).
Starring Matthew Currie Holmes (Wrong Turn 2), Alisha Seaton (The Fourth Kind), Trent Haaga (Terror Firmer), Richard Grove (Army of Darkness), Diane Goldner (Feast I-III), and Kat Harris (Body of Proof). Lensed by Buz "Danger" Wallick (Never Sleep Again: The Elm St. Legacy). FX by Mark Shostrom (Evil Dead II) and his team, with visual fx designer Phil Mucci (Opeth's The Devil's Orchard) and stop-motion animator Michael Granberry (Robot Chicken).
These credits all look adorable now, a dozen years later. (We’ve all been very busy.) And certainly, many many hilarious ideas about gender roles, and fluidity, and such, have massively transformed as well.
But anyway, here’s the nice movie that somehow snuck up on massive numbers, completely unbeknownst to us. (Last time I checked, it was 5 years ago today, and we couldn’t believe it had just gotten 100 thousand hits. My oh my, how it’s grown!)
One of my favorite film experiences in my whole damn life!! I love this weird little short to the bottom of my soul.
Huge congrats!