Product Details

• Actors: Tony Todd, Seth Landau, Candy Stanton, Tori King, Bobby Slayton
• Directors: Seth Landau
• Writers: Seth Landau
• Producers: Seth Landau, Judi Bagnato, Michael Kees, Mike Mahoney, Minda Kees
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001AYWY8Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,585 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bryan Loves You" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

In the early ‘90s, a 32-year-old psychotherapist (writer/producer/director Seth Landau) began to suspect that his small Arizona community was being taken over by a homicidal religious cult known as ‘The Bryans’. His entire ordeal was captured on camcorder footage and security tapes. They are the video musings of a highly disturbed young man. This is what was recovered. George Wendt (Cheers, King of the Ants), Tony Todd (Candyman), Tiffany Shepis (Abominable) and Daniel Roebuck (The Devils' Reject's) co-star – with cameos by Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman, Chuck Williams (Bubba Ho-Tep) and scream queen Brinke Stevens – in this disturbing chiller based on the 1993 true story that shocked America.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Creepy low budget, May 19, 2010

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Nathan Christian (Pitcairn, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bryan Loves You (DVD)

This movie is worth the sitting...it's creepy and effective, how ever flawed.

It succeeds in the first half, by creating a foreboding, unpredictable atmosphere. You really aren't sure where the movie will be going. If the movie had kept up this atmosphere and pace, I would have given it 5 stars.... but then things change.

The setting moves to a hospital, and there the atmosphere, and the story drops in quality. The main character looses focus, and his motivations and actions don't really seem to fit. He is rescued from the hospital in a poor escape scene, driven to a warehouse, and just walks away. The ending is him driving hours away to see his Mom, but, if the Bryans were as big a cult as the earlier part of the movie implied, how was he able to drive so far without stopping for gas or being seen?

I was also disappointed by the commentary. It wasn't very informative, and is cut short by a shooting by a Bryan cult follower. It's pretty much a self-love fest for Seth Landau.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Strangely effective and seriously creepy movie, March 9, 2009

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Mickneworleans "Mick" (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bryan Loves You (DVD)

I like that Anchor Bay can back this kind of original vision. Blending a paranoid thriller about cults and wrongful institutionalization with horror elements like creepy masks and cameos by genre standouts such as Tony Todd, George Wendt, and Brinke Stevens.

Having been filmed documentary-style with handheld camcorders, this really does feel like a set of someone's lost tapes. it's one truly frightening piece. I'm amazed by the kind of discussion that this could provoke, and that's truly beyond what a horror flick is.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible movie!, September 14, 2010

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Garmonbozia (The Northwest, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bryan Loves You (DVD)

It seemed to have an interesting premise, so I kept watching it hoping it would get better. It didn't. I rarely say, "Gee, that was boring," but I was bored by this film.