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If you know any absurd independent local movies worth a looksy feel free to post them here. I'll start with

Horror of the Humongous Hungry Hungan (1991)

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Grainy Z-grade 16mm hot mess shot in rural Pennsylvania. The original title was The Hungan and it appears to have been filmed in the mid-80s, even though end credits say it was 1989. This is extreme local backyard kind of filmmaking, and tells the story of some teenage girl plagued by nightmares. Her dreams become deadly reality when a re-animated corpse escapes a lab and starts stalking the girl and her friends on a camping trip.
There are more than obvious A Nightmare on Elm Street influences with a healthy dose of Friday the 13th added to the mix - the killer/monster has extended claws and spits radioactive liquid.
There's a Pee-wee Herman impersonator (a pretty good one I might add) crashing a party, a hair metal band called Cry Wolf playing a gig and I spotted Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. poster hanging on a wall. For some reason there's a narration by Jack Palance that doesn't make sense which is quite hilarious. Cast are locals most likely, and most of the younger male actors sport amazing mullets that were super-trendy back in the day. Especially in back country areas.

No doubt The Hungan is awful but I can't deny it has a certain charm, in a nostalgic time capsule-ish sort of way. It's like friends, family and the whole town came together to make a movie just for fun, even though the end results are dreadful.

Troma picked it up for distribution in the early 90s and made it available for the masses.

Got no mojo for talkin' it all up today, but for twenty years now, I keep hearing this town's going nowhere but up....

http://youtu.be/nLtZFIPNMlY (http://youtu.be/nLtZFIPNMlY)

Ahhh... These films can be fun, if you're in the right frame of mind.

Two names which come to mind: Bill Rebane & Don Dohler.

Dohler made an amateur film-making magazine before launching a career as a small-time filmmaker. He films usually had good special FX for no-budget features.

Rebane made The Giant Spider Invasion, and a few other, duller movies, like The Alpha Incident, on a ranch in Wisconsin.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigpoppaonline/2013/03/04/third-eye-cinema-3313-with-bill-rebane (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigpoppaonline/2013/03/04/third-eye-cinema-3313-with-bill-rebane)

Interview with Bill Rebane, which I still need to listen to.

This hyar movie were made not too'n afar from my home town, yes it were.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0349612/

the DEMON LOVER aka the DEVIL MASTER (1976) is about a Ted Nugent wannabe  (he was offered the role!) who uses black magic to kill his friends (?). the acting sucks, but it's cheezy fun. Made here in Michigan! I bought a VHS big box under the DEVIL MASTER moniker at the flea market!
Directed by local boy Donald G. Jackson! (HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN)

this clip cracks me up-I dunno why-so goofy...!

http://youtu.be/dlwN4P9NZSM (http://youtu.be/dlwN4P9NZSM)

Demon Lover was one of my very first mail order movies on VHS. Don't remember much about the movie except that black magic killer dude's hair was beyond amazing.

Never seen this one, but Drew Bolduc was quite a local presence
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667133/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667133/)
He moved to New York last Fall or earlier the year to work for some video game company
His last opus before leaving town was this confusing porno
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7453306/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7453306/)

When I lived in the Wilds of Rural Tennessee it turned out my only neighbor for about a mile was a tattoo shop owner who decided to make some low budget horror movies. He actually raised enough money to feature such genre stars as Reggie Bannister, the guy who plays Doctor Gangrene, Debbie Rochon, and TEXAS CHAINSAW stars John Dugan, Edwin Neal, and best of all - Gunnar Hansen in his movies.

I had a two hundred year old restored farmhouse on about fifteen acres of woods, old out buildings, ruins, boulders, and blackberry bushes. Most of the exterior and a lot of interior shots were film in and around my place. All the stars were nice, with Gunnar Hansen particularly so. We got to be buddies and I'd drive him around to the Piggy Wiggly and he'd roll around and play with my dogs. My cat Alice fell madly in love with him and managed to get herself a featured role in one of the movies.

The moves all got released on DVD by Lionsgate and practically nobody saw them. A couple of them got BIG SCREEN premieres at a local independent theater that usually played foreign films. They were all pretty terrible.


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Hey, that's my old barn!

That's nice: am I right in saying that's Old Latherface in the red shirt?  :smile:

That's the guy! Despite being famous for playing a crazed, idiot Texas Chainsaw murderer he was actually a very softspoken, intelligent  Icelander who wrote poetry for his girlfriend.

Next to him in that photo wearing the fake beard is Edwin Neal, who played the crazed hitchhiker brother. The guy who played their demented old grandpappy was also there, as a cop or something. So there was a mini-TEXAS CHAINSAW MURDERS family reunion right in my house.

It was in post production for a couple of years.
I get killed twice in this movie.
http://youtu.be/PycZjWSsDm4 (http://youtu.be/PycZjWSsDm4)

Look up "Thr33 days dead."

Ok: https://www.google.com/search?q=Thr33+days+dead&btnG= (https://www.google.com/search?q=Thr33+days+dead&btnG=)

Didn't SYFY or somebody make a documentary about the filming of this one?

I grew up nearby, in Guntersville.

darkness: the vampire version, directed by leif jonker. i had a small hand in this a million years ago, did some makeup and i'm in a scene with a bunch of people running down a dirt road in the middle of the night. if you look closely, you'll see a short chick in a white tshirt and jeans with long shaggy hair at the back of the group, that's me, lol!

Attack of the herbals.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXI9lbDK6_A#)

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Macho Man (1985)

German movie filmed in the East Franconian town of Nuremberg (Nürnberg). Macho Man was the first and only Action movie to be filmed in Nuremberg, so it was kind of a big deal for locals. It stars German featherweight boxing champion René Weller who was, believe it or not, kind of a sex symbol back in the 1980s

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in Macho Man Mr. Weller plays a boxing champion teaming with a karate champion (Peter Althof, German kickboxer and celebrity bodyguard)

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to fight crime in Nuremberg. They also must protect Mr. Weller's love interest Sandra (Bea Fiedler, German Playboy Playmate of the Month June 1977) from evil drug dealers.

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Filmed in the winter of 1983/1984, Macho Man had its premiere in Nuremberg in late 1984 before going nationwide in January 1985.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC-v_P2-oTE#)

Not a box office success (only 10.000 people saw it during its theatrical run), Macho Man found an audience when it was released to home video, and got more exposure in the late 1990s when German VJ's made fun of it on a regular basis in a popular music video TV show.
The movie is extremly cheesy, acting and dialogue are awful as expected and the use of local Nuremberg slang (all actors re-dubbed) and familiar seedy locations made this a cult movie classic. So much that the people of Nuremberg were blessed with special screenings for nearly 20 years (kind of like The Rocky Horror Picture Show) always attended by the original cast.

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Macho Man was never released in the US. Lacking international flair and appeal it was however released in most of Europe. They made a sequel in 2017 with the original cast but without Bea Fiedler.

Forgot to add, in 1991 René Weller won a lawsuit against the producers of Macho Man, demanding that all his sex scenes to be deleted from the movie. I guess he had second thoughts about his onscreen sexiness.

Troma has been making movies in my neck o' the woods (NY Metro area/northern New Jersey) for decades. Back in the day I watched'em shoot part of Class of Nuke'Em High in the parking lot of a Catholic high school in my home town (Paramus, New Jersey).

Death In Brunswick (1990) is an Australian movie starring Sam Neill, who we all know went on to do bigger things in Hollywood, like Event Horizon and The Omen III. Sam plays Carl, a woebegone guy who lives with his eccentric mother and works in a sleazy Greek nightclub. In a series of very unfortunate events, he accidentally kills someone, and he enlists the aid of his friend, a grave digger, to help him. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a somewhat younger Greek girl.

The movie was shot locally (I live about half an hour from Brunswick) and humorously shows a lot of Australian and Australian migrant stereotypes, like the Greek girl's family home's decor, the house where Carl lives, and their general dialogue. It's incredibly funny, although I'm unsure just how much the nuances goes across cultures not familiar with Australia.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMEsOfgo7gM#)

Holy thread resurrection  :wink:

I was just thinking about my time at another horror message board in the 2000s. I was forum friends with Indie film director Matthew Reel from Arizona who used to post there as well. He was doing a couple of short features back to back. He would offer them in private on VHS or DVD for reasonable prices though I never bought any of his movies.
His "big" break came in 2010 when he hooked up with another forum member, Elske McCain, also from Arizona. She had done tiny bit parts (uncredited) in The Getaway (1994) starring Kim Basinger, and a background acting part in Silent Fury (1994), a trashy action film starring Robert Z'Dar and Charles Napier.
Elske eventually connected with Lloyd Kaufman who she met at horror conventions. He gave her a bit part in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) and she was a Tromette of the Month the same year I think.
Matthew and Elske ended up doing the feature film Jessicka Rabid (2010) which was distributed by Troma

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Never seen but ratings aren't that good at IMDb.

Seems like Matthew Reel hasn't done anything since Jessicka Rabid. Elske McCain did a few no budget trash horror movies prior but also went on a break after Jessicka Rabid. According to IMDb she did a new feature in 2020. Good for her.

BLADE HARD (2014) made right here in Anchorage, Alaska!

"Blade Hard is an independent film that documents the trials and tribulations of Xander Kane’s recruitment into to the renowned Blade Agency, a quasi-secretive sect of the Department of Defense and protectors of an ancient time travel device. As a new enemy emerges, will the Xander and the other Blade agents be able to save the time device from those who wish to use it for literary evil, or will the agents run out of time?"

Lots of people talk about making a movie.. these guys went out and did it. 

Granted, they missed the mark on trying to make a good movie...but they made it all the same.

https://www.facebook.com/bladehardak/videos/542210522577391 (https://www.facebook.com/bladehardak/videos/542210522577391)

Maybe Kornula knows more about this than I do, but the only movie shot locally in Anchorage, Alaska that I know of off the top of my head is The Frozen Ground (2013) with Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Nicolas Cage alone makes it a bad movie, but everything else about the film was pretty damned good, and they managed to successfully make “Los Anchorage” (our crime rate here, per capita, makes it one of the worst in the country) look like a really $hitty place to live.  :teddyr:

Is it? 

It can be at times.