John Michael McCarthy

Birth : 1962-01-01, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Movies

Destroy Memphis
Director
A documentary about the razing of Memphis history.
WAIF
Writer
Waif, a telekinetic teenage robot-fighter survives a crashed spaceship and the death of her little sister at an old abandoned drive-in.
WAIF
Director
Waif, a telekinetic teenage robot-fighter survives a crashed spaceship and the death of her little sister at an old abandoned drive-in.
Horror Host
Director
TV Horror Host is shown on set and behind the scenes with various cast members on his show...he is the star and he doesn't take kindly to advice from the floor manager...the Host is attracted to a pretty young girl who comes to the set in hopes of becoming a star herself but not before the vampire Horror Host shows her that he has an 'inner desire' for her affections.
Careless Wood
Director
Destroy Memphis short
Native Son
Writer
The film documents the making of the seven-foot tall “Tupelo Elvis” bronze statue by sculptor Bill Beckwith, modeled on Elvis’ pose in the Roger Marshutz photograph shot at the 1956 Tupelo Fair and slated to be unveiled at Fairpark in Tupelo on August 9.
Native Son
Director
The film documents the making of the seven-foot tall “Tupelo Elvis” bronze statue by sculptor Bill Beckwith, modeled on Elvis’ pose in the Roger Marshutz photograph shot at the 1956 Tupelo Fair and slated to be unveiled at Fairpark in Tupelo on August 9.
A Day at the Drive-in
Director
An inside look at the Malco Summer Drive-In in Memphis, TN.
Goddamn Godard
Director
An enchanted tale of an artist, a critic, and a leather-clad, tree-dwelling gang who fall in love with a French girl, who takes them on an odyssey of Love, Sex and Dreams.
Tupelove
Director
A businessman is led around Tupelo, Mississippi by a '50s tour guide showing him its connection to Elvis Presley.
Cigarette Girl
Writer
In the near future laws against smoking have increased to the point where you must live in a certain part of town called the Smoking Section if want to smoke cigarettes. Once you have passed the line of demarcation you just know you've crossed the tracks because things get a little grimier, a little more industrial. If you travel there to smoke or to buy, the main place is the Vice Club. Cigarette Girl becomes an angel of death when she stops smoking and starts killing on the third day to alleviate her acute psychological withdrawal manifested primarily by the ghost of a cowboy who is always on her back to keep smoking. Cigarette Girl would rather kill than smoke.
Cigarette Girl
Director
In the near future laws against smoking have increased to the point where you must live in a certain part of town called the Smoking Section if want to smoke cigarettes. Once you have passed the line of demarcation you just know you've crossed the tracks because things get a little grimier, a little more industrial. If you travel there to smoke or to buy, the main place is the Vice Club. Cigarette Girl becomes an angel of death when she stops smoking and starts killing on the third day to alleviate her acute psychological withdrawal manifested primarily by the ghost of a cowboy who is always on her back to keep smoking. Cigarette Girl would rather kill than smoke.
Broad Daylight
Editor
An amazing and timeless collection of pretty peelers brought to the masses by super 8 seamstress Victoria Renard and Memphis Movie Messiah JMM [Superstarlet A.D.]. Set against a backdrop of sock dropping rock and roll and beautifully bizarre screen-warped colorization. Featuring the timeless toasts of the modern burlesque scene such as Miss Exotic Wood 2002 KITTEN DeVILLE [Auto Focus], URSULINA [Lucha Va Voom], THE FISHNET FLOOZYS, Miss Exotic Wood 2004 DIRTY MARTINI, MIMI LeMEAUX, CANDY WHIPLASH, THE DEVILETTES, THE SOPHISTIKITTENS, and MORE! See Starlets "burlesque" to garage rocknroll recorded in the most primitive conditions!
Broad Daylight
Director of Photography
An amazing and timeless collection of pretty peelers brought to the masses by super 8 seamstress Victoria Renard and Memphis Movie Messiah JMM [Superstarlet A.D.]. Set against a backdrop of sock dropping rock and roll and beautifully bizarre screen-warped colorization. Featuring the timeless toasts of the modern burlesque scene such as Miss Exotic Wood 2002 KITTEN DeVILLE [Auto Focus], URSULINA [Lucha Va Voom], THE FISHNET FLOOZYS, Miss Exotic Wood 2004 DIRTY MARTINI, MIMI LeMEAUX, CANDY WHIPLASH, THE DEVILETTES, THE SOPHISTIKITTENS, and MORE! See Starlets "burlesque" to garage rocknroll recorded in the most primitive conditions!
Broad Daylight
Producer
An amazing and timeless collection of pretty peelers brought to the masses by super 8 seamstress Victoria Renard and Memphis Movie Messiah JMM [Superstarlet A.D.]. Set against a backdrop of sock dropping rock and roll and beautifully bizarre screen-warped colorization. Featuring the timeless toasts of the modern burlesque scene such as Miss Exotic Wood 2002 KITTEN DeVILLE [Auto Focus], URSULINA [Lucha Va Voom], THE FISHNET FLOOZYS, Miss Exotic Wood 2004 DIRTY MARTINI, MIMI LeMEAUX, CANDY WHIPLASH, THE DEVILETTES, THE SOPHISTIKITTENS, and MORE! See Starlets "burlesque" to garage rocknroll recorded in the most primitive conditions!
Broad Daylight
Director
An amazing and timeless collection of pretty peelers brought to the masses by super 8 seamstress Victoria Renard and Memphis Movie Messiah JMM [Superstarlet A.D.]. Set against a backdrop of sock dropping rock and roll and beautifully bizarre screen-warped colorization. Featuring the timeless toasts of the modern burlesque scene such as Miss Exotic Wood 2002 KITTEN DeVILLE [Auto Focus], URSULINA [Lucha Va Voom], THE FISHNET FLOOZYS, Miss Exotic Wood 2004 DIRTY MARTINI, MIMI LeMEAUX, CANDY WHIPLASH, THE DEVILETTES, THE SOPHISTIKITTENS, and MORE! See Starlets "burlesque" to garage rocknroll recorded in the most primitive conditions!
Rock n' Roll Soundtrack
Director
Shot in Memphis and Marion, Arkansas
Elvis Meets the Beatles
Director
Based very loosely on a brief account in Peter Guralnick's Elvis biography Careless Love, the film is a fantasia about the night the Fab Four and the King spent together in 1965.
Superstarlet A.D.
Producer
The world has ended. All that is left behind are individual beauty cults, groups of girls seeking safety and identity in numbers. Basing their bond on hair color and giving themselves strangely evocative gang names, the blond Phayrays (King Kong), the brunette Satanas (Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!), and the wicked, redheaded Tempests (as in Storm, the stripper) are constantly battling the brutish cavemen roaming the afterworld ruins and looking for potential dye job converts. Only one group tries to incorporate all follicle factions. They are the Superstarlets.
Superstarlet A.D.
Writer
The world has ended. All that is left behind are individual beauty cults, groups of girls seeking safety and identity in numbers. Basing their bond on hair color and giving themselves strangely evocative gang names, the blond Phayrays (King Kong), the brunette Satanas (Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!), and the wicked, redheaded Tempests (as in Storm, the stripper) are constantly battling the brutish cavemen roaming the afterworld ruins and looking for potential dye job converts. Only one group tries to incorporate all follicle factions. They are the Superstarlets.
Superstarlet A.D.
Director
The world has ended. All that is left behind are individual beauty cults, groups of girls seeking safety and identity in numbers. Basing their bond on hair color and giving themselves strangely evocative gang names, the blond Phayrays (King Kong), the brunette Satanas (Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!), and the wicked, redheaded Tempests (as in Storm, the stripper) are constantly battling the brutish cavemen roaming the afterworld ruins and looking for potential dye job converts. Only one group tries to incorporate all follicle factions. They are the Superstarlets.
Shine On Sweet Starlet
Director
JMM and his friendly elitist entourage shot super-8 stag footage of starlets and collected music from bands who played with The Sore Losers!
The Sore Losers
Producer
Set in present day Northeastern Mississippi and Memphis, Blackie (Jack Oblivian) returns to Earth 42 years after his first visit to complete a mission: Given a second chance by The Elder of the Lo-Fi Frequency (Sexploitation pioneer of the '50's and '60's DAVID FRIEDMAN), he is to finish his original mission of killing 12 victims. He hooks up with his old friend Mike (Mike Maker) then eventually meets Kerine (Kerine Elkins) and Goliatha (D'Lana Tunnell). Trouble begins.
The Sore Losers
Writer
Set in present day Northeastern Mississippi and Memphis, Blackie (Jack Oblivian) returns to Earth 42 years after his first visit to complete a mission: Given a second chance by The Elder of the Lo-Fi Frequency (Sexploitation pioneer of the '50's and '60's DAVID FRIEDMAN), he is to finish his original mission of killing 12 victims. He hooks up with his old friend Mike (Mike Maker) then eventually meets Kerine (Kerine Elkins) and Goliatha (D'Lana Tunnell). Trouble begins.
The Sore Losers
Director
Set in present day Northeastern Mississippi and Memphis, Blackie (Jack Oblivian) returns to Earth 42 years after his first visit to complete a mission: Given a second chance by The Elder of the Lo-Fi Frequency (Sexploitation pioneer of the '50's and '60's DAVID FRIEDMAN), he is to finish his original mission of killing 12 victims. He hooks up with his old friend Mike (Mike Maker) then eventually meets Kerine (Kerine Elkins) and Goliatha (D'Lana Tunnell). Trouble begins.
Teenage Tupelo
Executive Producer
In Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1962, a poor, young, single mother is impregnated by a womanizing has-been singer. Her mother tries to force her to give the child away but our heroine isn't sure. As she tries to solve her problems she receives assistance from unlikely quarters: a lesbian gang and the feminist/nudist/stripper/adult film star they idolize.
Teenage Tupelo
Writer
In Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1962, a poor, young, single mother is impregnated by a womanizing has-been singer. Her mother tries to force her to give the child away but our heroine isn't sure. As she tries to solve her problems she receives assistance from unlikely quarters: a lesbian gang and the feminist/nudist/stripper/adult film star they idolize.
Teenage Tupelo
Director
In Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1962, a poor, young, single mother is impregnated by a womanizing has-been singer. Her mother tries to force her to give the child away but our heroine isn't sure. As she tries to solve her problems she receives assistance from unlikely quarters: a lesbian gang and the feminist/nudist/stripper/adult film star they idolize.
Damselvis, Daughter of Helvis
Writer
Based on the comic, the film follows the adventures of Damselvis.
Damselvis, Daughter of Helvis
Director
Based on the comic, the film follows the adventures of Damselvis.