Eddie, the titular gentleman in director Boris Rodriguez’s horror-comedy, loves to eat Yummy-O cereal right out of the box. He also enjoys killing and noshing on rabbits and obnoxious neighbors. Eddie, you see, is a brawny, mentally challenged mute who turns into a cannibal in his sleep and goes running off in just his white briefs looking for midnight snacks.
His care has been entrusted to Lars (long story), a faded big-shot painter who has taken a teaching job at a remote, snowbound art school in Canada in hopes of getting the creative juices flowing again. The spark Lars (Thure Lindhardt) needs is provided not by the usual suspect, a cute and willing fellow teacher, Leslie (Georgina Reilly), but by Eddie (Dylan Smith). Each time Eddie goes off on a rampage, Lars paints a new masterpiece.
The movie’s title might sound like a splatter-fest by Rob Zombie. But despite the theme, “Eddie” goes easy on gratuitous gore. What we get is a cerebral horror movie and a satire of the art world.