Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

Opens April 2

Part of: Beyond Chicago

2025 110 min DCP

Rated
ur
Tom Stern
Tom Stern, Simon Weinstein
Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Coffey

Featuring a post-film Q&A with Director Tom Stern, Singer and Co-Founder Gibby Haynes, and Guitarist and Co-Founder Paul Leary

MidWest Premiere

This is the story of the Butthole Surfers, a band that defied every rule and redefined what rock could be. Emerging from Texas in the early 1980s, Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary forged an anarchic path across America’s underground, creating chaotic live shows filled with nudity, fake blood, and blistering psychedelic noise. Their name alone was a challenge to Reagan-era conformity, yet their influence rippled through alternative music, shaping acts like Nirvana and securing them a cult legacy. Featuring candid interviews, wild archival footage, trippy reenactments, and commentary from icons like Flea, Dave Grohl, and Richard Linklater, this long-anticipated documentary is as provocative, funny, and fearless as the band itself.

2025
USA
English
110 min
Documentary

Showtimes for Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

Part of: Beyond Chicago

Featuring a post-film Q&A with Director Tom Stern, Singer and Co-Founder Gibby Haynes, and Guitarist and Co-Founder Paul Leary