Septien

Eighteen years after his sudden disappearance, the neglected athlete Cornelius Rawlings (played by director Michael Tully himself, with a large tramp’s beard) returns to his parents’ farm in the country. His parents are long dead, but his brothers Ezra and Amos and the lethargic hired hand are there.
Ezra has taken over the role of mother in the house while in the barn Amos makes perturbing paintings filled with athletes, their limbs torn off, and satanic symbols. When the plumber comes to clear the toilet, the past also enters the brothers’ house. All three have their own demons to fight.
Tully’s film is a childish and feverish dream, an unpretentious and humorous art film, a horror film without any splattering blood, a Southern Gothic story, an unusual sports film, an honest look at the way men suppress their feelings. And all that in the nostalgic style of a TV film from the early 1980s.