Butcher Boys

Butcher Boys is a 2012 American horror cannibal film written and produced by Kim Henkel, who co-created of 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with Tobe Hooper. The film was directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks. It was originally titled Boneboys. The film was picked up by Phase 4 Films shortly after its world premiere at the 2012 Fantasia International Film Festival, and later made its US premiere at the 2012 Austin Film Festival. Phase 4 Films released the movie in theaters on September 6, 2013, under the tagline "You Are What You Eat." In 2016, PopHorror named it one of the "Top 10 Cannibal Themed Horror Movies of the 21st Century." Plot A group of Texas youths are celebrating a birthday at a posh San Antonio restaurant when they cross paths with a ravenous clan of cannibals called the Boneboys. Mercilessly stalked through the darkened streets of the city, the young revelers must fight back against their attackers with sheer ferocity in order to avoid having their bodies defiled, and their flesh devoured. Butcher Boys is described as an updating of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satirical essay A Modest Proposal, which suggested poor people sell their children to the rich as food. Writer Kim Henkel imagined the descendants of folks who actually took Swift up on his proposal. Cast