Booger Red

Booger Red is a 2015 film written by Johnny McAllister and

Bob Bullock Museum, as part of the Austin Film Festival, in 2015.^[1]

The film documents a journalist named Onur Turkel,[2] played by Onur Turkel,^[3] who had experienced child abuse in his past, investigating a possibly fabricated child abuse case.^[1] Its basis is a 2009 magazine article by Michael Hall, a journalist of the Texas Monthly who investigated the controversial "Mineola Swingers' Club" case in Mineola, Texas.^[4] Mader stated that he chose to make a film on the subject because "It was all just so outrageous, wild and surreal that I just had to look into it further."^[2]

The main character, Turkel, is intended to be an

audience surrogate.^[3] Mader stated that he chose the actor Turkel as he could portray a "maniac".^[2] Hall stated that the main character is "a fornicating, drug-snorting, bearded wild man who bears absolutely no resemblance to me."^[1] The main character's sister-in-law, played by Marija Karan, is his main ally.^[3]

Caitlin Moore of the

Austin Chronicle wrote that "is stylistically inspired by Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up".^[3]