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Congratulations On Your Creepy New Pod Baby: The Odd Life Of Timothy Green Trailer

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (27)

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Picture this scenario:

You and your lovely wife are incredibly happy. You’re a beautiful couple living in a bucolic little town, and you’re ready to start a family. Except that oh noes! You can’t conceive. You try everything, but alas, it’s not to be. So one night you get all liquored up, and in a fit of glum sadness, you write down all of the things you’d have loved to see your child become, and you… put those notes in a box.

And then you bury the box in the garden?

And then, the next morning, you hear a noise and you go into your spare bedroom, and a dirty little boy is crawling around, birthed from the ground you recently dug up.

Would you:

a) Run screaming and call the police and/or child protective services?

b) Kill it with fire?

c) Adopt him as your own?

Me personally? I’d go (in order) (b), (a), and frankly, (c) isn’t even on the fucking table. But that’s me. If you picked (c), then The Odd Life of Timothy Green is for you.

Here’s the trailer.

How is this not a horror film? I mean, it’s begging for a creepy kid and a rash of dismemberments. But what do I know, right?









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Comments

"How is this not a horror film?"

Well, it is made by Disney.

Posted by: Matt at August 8, 2011 9:08 AM

Aside from it being horror-ready, it's also just SAD. Like really, really sad. Think about it. Even if you chose option (c), you'd doubt the child was human or even really yours OR (and this seems more likely to me), you'd assume you've lost and this is all an elaborate dream. You'd love that child, but you'd never be sure it was truly yours. This concept seriously depresses me.

All that aside, I'm surprised they went the heart-warming/happy angle.

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at August 8, 2011 9:20 AM

I wish I could see the trailer, because that sounds awful. Just... awful.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 8, 2011 9:27 AM

So I guess Jennifer Garner is the go-to actress to portray wannabe moms who can't conceive now?

Posted by: Sara at August 8, 2011 9:47 AM

I kind of like it. There's a place for somber little fantasy films.

I will admit I was waiting for someone to start screaming, "They moved the headstones, but they didn't move the bodies!"

Posted by: Robert at August 8, 2011 10:08 AM

What a cop out. It's f-ing uplifting?

You want a nice horror film about a couple who can't conceive, but bring up a "baby" they find in the garden? Try "Little Otik." The "baby" is actually a tree stump, and it looks like a tree stump, and it eats EVERYBODY! The End. And it has old fashioned stop motion animation for the "baby."

Posted by: BWeaves at August 8, 2011 10:16 AM

Oh how I wish they would have made this as a horror film! It would have been really awesome and creepy.

Posted by: Tess at August 8, 2011 10:19 AM

This is phase 2 of the plants taking over...

SHYAMALAN HAS FORESEEN! FIRST THEY COME TO MAKE US KILL OURSELVES, THEN THEY SEND US MAGICAL CHILDREN TO WOO US INTO FALSE SECURITY!

KILL! KILL THE UNCLEAN ONE!

Posted by: D-Day at August 8, 2011 10:25 AM

So the dog dies?

Posted by: Magiel at August 8, 2011 10:34 AM

So kid checks off all the things they wrote in the box then dies. The end.

Posted by: benjiep at August 8, 2011 10:38 AM

Oh, sure. The old I-was-created-from-a-box-of-the-hopes-and-wishes-of-a-well-off-but-sadly-barren-couple ploy. Nice try, kid. But, I've seen that grift a hundred times.

Posted by: jM at August 8, 2011 10:52 AM

I like a little magical realism, Disney-style or not, but I'm really disappointed this isn't, you know, creepier. BUT Joel Edgerton's in it, and I love his face. I'm in.

Posted by: Sefa at August 8, 2011 11:06 AM

When I was five there was a fairy story that was a little similar to this (I think it was The Elves and The Shoemaker). It was sweet, but I was five at the time.

This. This is not only creepy, but really perpetuates that myth that women who can't conceive often become psychotic.

Nonetheless I shall watch it when it comes on free cable because I sort of want to see the entire train wreck.

Posted by: PaddyDog at August 8, 2011 11:08 AM

I want to yak all over my computer because this is going to be so heart warming but absolutely shouldn't be. Fuck you Disney for ruining a perfectly good idea for a horror film.

Posted by: michaelceratops at August 8, 2011 11:13 AM

I'm weirded out the most by the fact that said child springs from the earth fully grown. Like somehow it would be less creepy to see a muddy baby in your yard than a muddy 10 year old.

Posted by: linny at August 8, 2011 11:49 AM

So this is a remake of "Pet Sematary" that just skips all the animal silliness and gets straight to the kid?

Posted by: , at August 8, 2011 12:15 PM

The kid is doesn't exist. The wife eviscerated the husband with a filleting knife when they found they couldn't conceive, then she hallucinated the whole thing. At the end they zoom out, out, out, back from her widely dilated pupil, and she's lying on the floor, in a pool of blood, holding her knees and humming "Rock-a-bye Baby".

(I want to see Foolsage's movie. -TK)

Posted by: foolsage at August 8, 2011 1:01 PM

* is imaginary / doesn't exist

Posted by: foolsage at August 8, 2011 1:02 PM


d) Bury a somewhat different list in the garden.

(Who doesn't need a couple Fembots with a penchant for evil?)

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at August 8, 2011 2:57 PM

Yikes. Ok, A) this is creepy as shit. WTF was Disney thinking? And B) as someone who has experienced infertility firsthand I'm trying to figure out how offended I am by this. It's nearing the levels to which, being the father of an adopted son, I was offended by "Orphan".

As if families like mine don't have enough emotional baggage to deal with from the realities of our reproductive issues, we also have to deal with living in a world where people get their beliefs about non-traditional families from this sort of garbage and then think they understand what we go through.

Posted by: NateS1973 at August 8, 2011 3:59 PM

Good God, was that David Morse standing behind the kid at the end od the trailer?

If yes, then it is ABSOLUTELY horror.

Posted by: Jill at August 8, 2011 4:17 PM

Uuuugh. Lord. I got about halfway through that trailer before I had to come down and rant. ADOPT! FUCKING ADOPT! It's socially responsible and you can always pawn off bad behavior on faulty genetics (just kidding). But seriously, this concept that people (read: women) are somehow incomplete without spawning a little DNA copy really ticks me off. My extended family has several adoptions so I'm obviously biased about this but my view is: if you can't love someone just because they're not carrying your genes, why the fuck do you want to be a parent anyways?
I find movies like this kind of cruel because it plays off the pain and fear of infertility while not actually addressing the issue of adopting. Nope, some magical baby fairy is going to come along and you'll have the child you always wanted and it will be great and wonderful! Just bury a creepy pseudo-coffin in the backyard and add water!

Posted by: malice88alice at August 8, 2011 4:51 PM

All this being said, if I have fertility issues I'm totally going to try this but I'll just add "wins lotto at 18", "gourmet chef" and "loves to clean" to the list.

Posted by: malice88alice at August 8, 2011 4:56 PM

I hope that Edgerton is using the money from this to write/produce more movies with his brother because The Square was way more fun than this looks. This looks like WORK.

Posted by: Hattie at August 8, 2011 6:07 PM

, it's a mix of Pet Sematary and Thumbelina.

Posted by: Four Eyes at August 8, 2011 7:40 PM

Hell yeah I'd kill it and then the next day I'd do it again and ask for a billion, gazillion dollars.

Posted by: Candy at August 8, 2011 10:14 PM

malice88alice is my new hero (sorry Joanna)

Posted by: cinekat at August 9, 2011 10:19 AM