2011
Not Rated
Variance Films
1 h 29 m

2011
Not Rated
Variance Films
1 h 29 m

Summary 70-year-old Clarence Reid could be your cranky grandfather--until he puts on his gold-spangled superhero costume and starts singing some of the raunchiest tunes you've ever heard in your life (and we're big rap fans, so this is saying something). Reid begins his career as a lynchpin of the esteemed Miami soul scene, where he wrote Top-1...

Directed By: Jonathan Furmanski

2011
Not Rated
Variance Films
1 h 29 m

2011
Not Rated
Variance Films
1 h 29 m

The Weird World of Blowfly

Name: The Weird World of Blowfly
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Released: 2011-09-16
Duration: 1 min 29 s
Rating: 52
Cast: Clarence Reid, Steve Alaimo, Bela B., Greg Bell, Jello Biafra

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews

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The A.V. Club

Sep 14, 2011

The Weird World Of Blowfly at times recalls "The Wrestler," only instead of schlepping his aging body from city to city to don outrageous costumes and wrestle, 69-year-old soul-music legend Clarence Reid schleps his hunched-over frame to gigs where he performs X-rated parodies and scatological ditties as incorrigible proto-hip-hopper Blowfly.

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Slant Magazine

Sep 12, 2011

If The Weird World of Blowfly is any different from other documentaries about eccentric characters from music-world obscurity, it's in the contentious topics Clarence touches on in his cantankerous speech.

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The New York Times

Sep 15, 2011

Somehow Mr. Reid has an ability to push so far into the depths of stupidity that he breaks out the other side, making you laugh in spite of yourself.

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Village Voice

Sep 13, 2011

Although its subject is never less than captivating, Jonathan Furmanski's film is frustratingly unfocused, a scattershot collection of candid footage and biographical information. Thankfully, Blowfly's world is weird as promised.

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Variety

Sep 12, 2011

Hanging out with a 1970s cult figure of raunchy R&B "party records" is less fun than one would expect in The Weird World of Blowfly.

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Time Out

Sep 13, 2011

So-so contemporary shows and cantankerous arguments are favored over in-depth looks at Reid's legacy. Any genuine weirdness about a funky, filthy-mouthed freak running around in a costume is left AWOL.

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Production Company Special Theory Films

Release Date Sep 16, 2011

Duration 1 h 29 m

Rating Not Rated

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Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Weird-World-of-Blowfly/271228140869?ref=ts

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