NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE directed by John Landis (USA, 1978)
Bluto don’t need no education.
Gross-out is a movie genre where tastelessness, political incorrectness and bad personal hygiene are worn as badges of honour.
In other words, adding to society’s ethical and cultural wellbeing is not high on the list of priorities so adjectives like ‘sick’ or ‘depraved’ are taken as compliments.
National Lampoon’s Animal House can justifiably lay claim to launching the genre on an unsuspecting world.
John Belushi is regarded as gross-out royalty both for his role as John ‘Bluto’ Blutarsky and for the fact that playing the part of a drunken degenerate seems to have closely resembled his off-screen lifestyle. To prove this point definitively he died of a drug overdose just four years later at the age of 33. Continue reading
