You Think Your Neighbors Are Bad: Listen to Two Angry Denizens Fight in the Shut Up Little Man! Trailer

What do you do when your two middle-aged alcoholic neighbors — one, a raging homophobe and the other, a flamboyant gay man — scream insults at each other all day long? If you’re Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitchell D, and encountering this problem in San Francisco in the late ’80s, you start recording. Then, thirty years later, you splice the audio together with interviews to make a Tribeca Film documentary called Shut Up Little Man! Take a look at the trailer ahead. In case you haven’t yet heard of “one of the world’s first viral pop-culture sensations,” Eddie and Mitch’s tapes quickly gained a cult following in San Francisco in the late ’80s, even inspiring comic artwork from Dan Clowes (Ghost World) and — according to the film’s official website — music from the likes of Devo. The tapes chronicled 18 months worth of verbal and physical abuse and were ultimately pieced together with the help of director Matthew Bate for this documentary, which became an official 2011 Sundance Film Festival selection. Sadly, the alcoholic odd couple roommates, Peter J. Haskett and Raymond Huffman, passed away in 1992 and 1996 so they could not enjoy their feature debut. Their violent likenesses will live on though in this “audio misadventure.” VERDICT: Surely more entertaining than your neighbor’s fights. Beginning Aug. 25, Shut Up Little Man will be available for download on iTunes, before a very limited theatrical release on Sept. 16.