While a theatrical release is all well and good, Casper Kelly’s Buddy emulates the old-fashioned experience of popping a VHS tape on a CRT TV and watching it in all its fuzzy glory — which you’ll soon be able to do! Saban Films announced digital and physical release dates for the horror comedy today, revealing when exactly you can bring that big orange unicorn home.
Audiences will be able to rent the film on digital beginning next week, with a DVD and Blu-ray release coming in December. Witter Entertainment is also releasing a VHS version of the film, which will be available for preorder beginning November 24, with shipping dates timed to Christmas.
Directed by Kelly from a script he co-wrote with Jamie King, Buddy stars Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, Patton Oswalt, and Clint Howard. The film’s synopsis is as follows:
In 1999, a group of amnesiac children live in the episodic world of It's Buddy!, a children's television show hosted by the tyrannical Buddy, a bright orange, humanoid unicorn with a purple heart on his chest who lives in his wacky clubhouse. When the children begin to defy their captor after one of the kids disappears, Buddy grinds his teeth and sends them on a perilous journey to the mythical Diamond City. Meanwhile, in the real world, traumatized suburban mother Grace is drawn into Buddy's abomination.
Buddy is executive produced by Kevin Flanigan, Dexter Braff, Roberto Linck, Nathan McAuley, Emilio Schenker, Gideon Tadmor, Adam J. Wilde, Geoff Yaw, and Ryan J. Kelly. The film is Kelly’s third feature, after directing Adult Swim Yule Log and its sequel, as well as the “Fun Size” segment of last year’s V/H/S/Halloween, and is officially the highest grossing film ever released by Saban Films.
Buddy arrives on digital on October 13, before coming to Blu-ray and DVD on December 8.
