Weekly World News may have stopped publishing their awesome/asinie paper in 2007, but the legacy of Bat Boy lives on in this video for Hot Hot Heat singer Stephen Bays' new project, Fur Trade.
Director Kheaven Lewandowski goes for a deeper character study here, focusing on our hero's quest for acceptance amongst the other neighborhood boys — which is a weird choice, since Bat Boy's true story includes capturing Saddam Hussein, flying to space and even biting Santa Claus.
Just when you think this lonely Japanese gigolo — a "rent-boy", according to a Pitchfork interview with director Kheaven Lewandowski —is about to go all Travis Bickle afer a late-night beatdown, he instead journeys back to a simpler place and time. It's a simple storyline, but given an anthemic scope thanks to the grandeur and mystery of the Tokyo setting.
And you thought your family reuinions were weird and crazy dramatic? The cultish clan in this creepy narrative clip stop shy of full-on Wicker Man madness — but not shy of enhanced interrogation madness — as their leader tries to keep the family together.
