Tusk: Walrus Man True Story Explained
The walrus man in Tusk, Kevin Smith’s horror comedy about a man who is surgically transformed into a walrus, was not based on a true story, as the film humorously claims. It was, however, inspired by a fake online advertisement in which an old man offers a room in his house rent-free, but with a catch: the lucky tenant must be willing and able to occasionally dress up in a walrus costume and behave like a walrus. The man who created the fake ad is writer Chris Parkinson of Brighton, England. He posted it as a joke, but according to reports from Variety, Parkinson received over 400 responses to the ad.
The transformation from human to walrus is the main similarity between the film and the fake ad. In the film, Los Angeles podcaster Wallace Bryton (Justin Long) and his co-host, Teddy (Haley Joel Osment), ridicule unfortunate people in viral videos, and Wallace interviews them. For an interview with a teenager who mistakenly cut off his leg, Wallace has to go to the outskirts of Manitoba, Canada. After he discovers that the man has committed suicide, presumably because of the ridicule, he finds a flyer posted by an old man who seems perfect for the podcast.
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Unlike Parkinson’s ad, however, the flyer does not mention the walrus, and it is not a joke. Instead, it is a lure posted by serial killer Howard Howe (Michael Parks, Kill Bill), a retired sailor obsessed with finding redemption for murdering and eating a walrus that he claims once saved his life. He disfigures his victims and surgically transforms them into the walrus, which he named Mr. Tusk so that he can re-enact their time together and give his savior a chance to live.
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