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Buddy
Directed by
Casper Kelly
PG
Releasing Sep 4
1h 35m
[Horror](/on-demand/category/horror), [Science Fiction](/on-demand/category/sci-fi)
7.1
84%
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A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.
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Cast of Buddy
Cristin Milioti
Grace
Delaney Quinn
Freddy
Topher Grace
Ben
Keegan-Michael Key
Buddy the Unicorn (voice)
Michael Shannon
Charlie the Train (voice) / Willie (voice)
Patton Oswalt
Strappy (voice)
Clint Howard
George (voice)
Sergey Zhuravsky
Buddy the Unicorn
Madison Polan
Hannah
Bryson JonSteele
Derek
Seamus Flynn
Timothy
Bennie Taylor
Mailman Miles
Mark Aaron Buerkle
Therapist (Day Player)
Phuong Kubacki
Luke Speakman
Josh
Tristan Borders
Oliver
Caleb Williams
Wade
Conner Stumm
Mailman Justin
Eric Salazar
Dad
Lynette Eklund
Puppeteer
Buddy Reviews
Slate
Sam Adams
The movie's hilarious and unsettling disjunctions come from the way it introduces genuine menace into Buddy's world without needing to rewrite its rules, because the menace was already bubbling just under the surface.
The Film Stage
Caleb Hammond
By and large, Buddy proves that high-concept short-form premises can be expanded to a feature format effectively, so long as the final film isn't too winky and the stakes feel grounded.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
A delightfully bleak, but mostly missed opportunity.
NERDBOT
Derrick Murray
"Buddy" is bloody, fun, and laugh out loud funny, knowing when to turn that dial to demented levels that is sure to delight audiences. I don't know that it all works...but "Buddy" get's more and more fun the weirder and weirder it gets.
Pop Culture Reviews
Brittany Patrice Witherspoon
Dismantling the perfect image of childhood shows, Kelly cuts through the propaganda in children's entertainment with satire, wit, and style.
TheWrap
Chase Hutchinson
Each time you think you're seeing the daylight of something potentially better to explore on the horizon, "Buddy" keeps dragging you back into the banal darkness. Like the kids, you deserve far better than whatever this lackluster production amounts to.
Daily Dead
Matt Donato
It takes our snuggliest memories and feeds them through a meat grinder, never playing it safe or caring about the ages of those in danger.
Bloody Disgusting
Meagan Navarro
Casper Kelly continues his explorations of pop culture insanity, this time with an engaging and energetic descent into puppet-induced madness. While its satire is never quite that deep, Buddy's foremost aim is to entertain. It certainly succeeds.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
Casper Kelly is a talent to watch. In Buddy, he's essentially reviving an old joke and doing multiple variations on it. But he has a gleefully rich understanding of the inner insanity that can drive pop culture.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Genre audiences willing to settle for some weird-ass but ultimately toothless subversiveness might enjoy Buddy... But the movie is a one-joke premise, cute and colorful but unsatisfyingly fleshed out.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
The first 20 minutes were side-splittingly funny and bitingly observed... Then a more ambitious story involving parents in the outside world, played by Cristin Milioti and Topher Grace, takes over, and the movie struggles to match its rocket-fuel kickoff.
JoBlo's Movie Network
Chris Bumbray
Never lives up to the dazzling first thirty minutes, but still a fun gonzo horror ride.
Collider
Ross Bonaime
Buddy is the kind of odd comedy that could take one joke and wear it out, but instead, Kelly's film will leave you wanting even more of this nostalgic nightmare.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A horror-comedy that takes a scalpel-or, more accurately, several weapons-to its jaunty protagonist, all while reveling in his darkly disturbed spirit.
IndieWire
Christian Zilko
It gets harder and harder to find something that feels fresh enough to be truly shocking and executed competently enough to transcend its gimmicks, and we should all celebrate when we find one.
United Press International
Fred Topel
An effective satire of those shows that simplify morals for kids. Turning it into a slasher movie with Buddy stalking the kids turns the show into a funhouse hell.
But Why Tho?
James Preston Poole
There is a great version of Buddy (2026) that either goes much further or is simply cut down into a short film. In its current form, it's a disappointment.
FandomWire
Sean Boelman
It's a lot of fun, has a great concept, and has no shortage of visual style, but it feels like the type of movie destined more for late night/cult status than mainstream appeal.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Damon Wise
Kelly plays with form in ways that some might find exasperating, but there is always a method to his madness and, like Too Many Cooks, Buddy goes out on a psychedelic high, like an extraordinary experiment in mind control.
Shade Studios
Alfred Castaneda
[Buddy] is proof that original storytelling is alive and well, even if it pulls from a bevy of influences.
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