Dirty Boy (2024)

Last updated on September 24th, 2025 at 09:25 pm

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Raised in an oppressive cult, a reclusive schizophrenic discovers that he’s being framed by the cult leaders for a series of ritualistic murders and must prove his innocence by saving their next victim and destroying the evil sect from within.

Firebook Entertainment distributes in the US.

Filmed in Styria, Austria.

The feature film directorial debut of Doug Rao, who was quoted saying: “Dirty Boy was written from a place of intense darkness – and I wanted to find the light and the humour within it. I want to explore the sense that complex understandings are often borne out of suffering. I wanted to experiment with identity as a fluctuating concept – can anyone really define themselves as one persona when there are so many versions of ‘the self’?”

Adding… “Isaac in Dirty Boy has created an ‘alter’ that his subconscious has formed to process forgotten traumas – but which one is really him? As someone says of Isaac’s tendency to blame his alter for his bad behavior: ‘He’s you, you asshole, he’s you!’ In Dirty Boy, we also explore both the beauty and the villainy that religious doctrine can inspire.”

This is an indie UK folk horror movie.

Dirty Boy arrived in UK Cinemas on September 10, 2025.

Firebook Entertainment released Dirty Boy in Select Theaters on September 19, 2025.

Dirty Boy arrives on UK Digital Platforms on October 15, 2025.

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Director: Doug Rao