The Runner
thefader.com“She’s reckless, and out of control, and it’s pure evil,” Jae Matthews says in a voiceover near the end of her new horror film, The Runner, discussing the movie’s murderous protagonist. “But there’s a human side to her too, and I hate to say it, but I can kind of relate.” Jae and Augustus “Gus” Muller are Boy Harsher, a singer-producer duo whose music stimulates the body first and the mind second.
They met as film students in Savannah, Georgia when Jae spotted Gus dancing to “Bizarre Love Triangle” at a party. A decade later, the rest is discography: two albums, three EPs, a dozen-odd cinematic music videos, and now, a 40-minute film.
Alternately brooding and bombastic, they deal in shouts and whispers, Gus’s propulsive rhythms peppered with stadium blasts and Jae’s slasher-worthy screams.
Their songs detail escapes, benders, breakups, and reunions, plumbing the pair’s stormy past even as they settle into domestic life together in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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