It’s a movie so insane and expensive to make that we want you to experience it somehow. With an ensemble cast including the disgusting, racist town sheriff, his wife, Evelyn who will do anything to get away from him, the too-cool-for-school preacher who just wants to get to the big city, the car-fucking, out of work mechanic literally named Cornfed, and the yankee couple whose car broke down on the edge of town. It’s a script written over the course of 7 years that’s more pertinent now than when we started writing it. We assembled an A+ cast of voice actors from Memphis to help us bring this story to life.
Directed by: Chad Allen Barton
Written by: Charlie Metz & Chad Allen Barton
Director's Statement
The way we came up with Dumb County comes down to many five hour long tirades that Charlie Metz and I would get into on her back porch. We would slip into characters and start living out life in this whole other place. It was somewhere extremely familiar to us, because we know, or have known, many people like this. It may be easy to say that we’re just poking fun at country folk from the South, but as I like to point out, the South is all over. I would also say that while I find these people entertaining to me, I don’t think we’re making fun of anyone. We became these characters in order to write this story, and to be honest, I feel sorry for most of them. Maybe not the Sheriff, but most everyone else. It is definitely a tragedy and unfortunately, it’s a tragedy about what lies in the heart of America. As with a lot of tragedy, it is cathartic to laugh along with, because it’s the only way we keep ourselves from crying at the truth we’re seeing, or in this case, hearing.
This gets me to the thrust of this statement. Dumb County is a film Charlie and I would love to make, but we need your help. Get the word out, show your friends and family our other work. At some point, we may do a fundraiser to tell this story the way it’s meant to be told, but for now, you can give monthly to our Patreon, buy our merchandise in our store, or just email us and ask how you can become a producer on this project or any other ones we’re currently making.