To make a horror film that disgusts the audience and makes people laugh, it needs a director in good shape and with particular irony. Irreverent and a little 'black. Among those who can perform it without any problems there is our dear Kevin Smith that with this film begins the trilogy "True North", a series of horror movies that besides being it has the specific objective to spoof Canada.
The pleasant land of the maple leaf is different from the United States, says the guard at the border . The American flag is white, red and blue, to Canada lacks the blue: the melancholy. Brilliant joke that combined with the fact that "Never say to a Canadian that you don’t follow hockey", is the funny and brilliant beginning of this movie written by Smith.
As sang in another movie without brakes, "Blame Canada" and here the fault of Canada is hosting a colorful series of eccentric characters. A police officer, a podcaster and his friends, a psychopath and a walrus. Protagonists of a film that takes in some ways inspiration from Frankenstein and others ways modernizes and makes even a parody of it. Protagonists of a story that touches considerable disgust points thanks to very strong central idea. To horror and comedy, Smith adds a romantic side, with a troubled love story, which takes us to an incredibly sad ending.
To prevent "Tusk" becomes a Canadian version of "The Human Centipede" there is a certain Guy Lapointe, strange and tough detective that sweetens the second half of the movie, the more horror, with funny comic moments. Lapointe, is an actor who definitely will have a great success and vaguely reminiscent Johnny Depp (hey, we joke, we know it's him!). The rest of the cast includes Haley Joel Osmet (the enfant prodige of the beginning of the century) the beautiful Génesis Rodríguez, Justin Long (who had worked with Smith in "Zack and Miri Make a Porno") and Michael Parks one of rescue actors by Tarantino.
If we want we can see a little of Taratino’s ideas, represented by long dialogues which tells detailed stories and a bit 'absurd, told mainly by the mad scientist Howard Howe/Bartholomew Moseeay (Parks) and Guy Lapointe. The others are the victims, physical and mental of the story that has a brief cameo of the daughters of Smith and Depp and has a balanced direction and a narration that grows slowly dissolving, all nodes.

Wallace Bryton (Long) and Teddy Craft (Osment) are two DJ authors of a podcast that tells weird stories. One of these has as protagonist a Canadian boy who playing with a circular saw amputates his leg. Wallace leaves for Manitoba to interview this guy, now web phenomenon. When he arrived at his house he
discovers that he is dead. Determined to bring home a story for his show Bryton find in a bathroom the announcement of Howard Howe, who offers a room in his home and the memories of an adventurous life.
His house is lost in the woods and welcomes elegantly Bryton, however, drinking tea and listening to the stories of Howe, falls asleep and wakes up without a leg. This is the beginning of another attempt of this mad scientist to transform a living being in a walrus, in memory of Mr.Tusk a walrus that saved his life, and with whom he still an open account. Piece by piece we witness the metamorphosis of Bryton sewing and maimed coarsely.
The girlfriend of the guy Ally (Rodriguez) has an affair with his friend Teddy before rushing in Canada to look for him. And there aided by the funny Guy Lapointe they discover the atrocious Howe's plan. There is not a happy ending, but a melancholy and grotesque one at the same time. Another stroke of genius of a great Kevin Smith.