Exclusive Interview with Hack Movies Main Man: KEVIN STRANGE

My friend and I first discovered Kevin Strange at the 2009 Scarefest horror convention in Kentucky.  Among the films being shown at that convention were Strange's Stiff Jobs, and if you know me a movie with that title must be checked out.  I'm glad we did.  It was our first exposure to the insane world of Strangeville, a place that any fan of Troma and underground horror comedy should be familiar with. Within the last year, Kevin has turned his attention from film making to short horror fiction but is still the evil genius that thought up all this madness and brought characters like Hogan and Cockhammer to life.  I had the honor to interview him and do a bit of a look back and a look toward what the future has in store for all the Hack minions.  Check out the awesome interview after the jump.

Jonah Carden- The Great Depression

It has been my intention to review this album for quite a while now.  One might assume that I would review it only to give my good buddy Jonah an ego boast regardless of what I actually thought about it but that's not true.  If the album sucked I would simply just leave it alone.  Fact is, the album does not suck, and in fact is the most solid album Jonah has been involved with to date.  The actual reason I want to review it is because it is so good and I hate that it is going without any attention being paid to it.  Indeed, the nine songs found on this album are so on par with anything available within this genre from signed artists that it annoys me that it's not being heard by the people that will appreciate them.  Of course, I highly doubt that me writing this will at all change this situation but if I can get any body else at all to check this music out it'd be worth it.

Metalliance Tour Review 03/22/11

Being a fan of Crowbar I was aware of the Metalliance Tour for some time now.  It started off as a tour featuring a band I love and one I'm not too familiar with at all, Helmet.  Later, Saint Vitus and Kylesa sweetened the pot even more, not to mention some other bands that I was less familiar with but had heard good things about.  I had just assumed that this tour was some time away and would probably only be on the west coast anyway.  Needless to say I was pretty pumped when I saw a post on Crowbar's Facebook page that said they were going to be in Greensboro, North Carolina that night.  Not only was that in my area but it was actually closer than the last Crowbar show I went to.

Plan 9 From Outer Space at The Lewis Theater

For as long as I can remember I have wished that The Lewis Theater, a small theater in downtown Lewisburg, WV (voted the "coolest small town" in America by somebody, somewhere recently), would show cult/horror films.  It's a small theater, one screen, that usually gets the artier, less mainstream films that the other theater in town (with it's whopping TWO screens) won't touch.  Being a fan of films that don't always get much of a release in this area, The Lewis Theater is a godsend from time to time.  It's obvious that they are catering to a niche film crowd, so I always wondered why they didn't show classic midnight movies as well.  Imagine my surprise when I went to see True Grit there (finally!) and saw a cut-out of Elvira holding a coming attraction notice of Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Movie Blog '11

01/02/11-Aliens+
01/02/11-Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics*
01/02/11-Pirates of Silicon Valley*
01/04/11-The Forty Year Old Virgin
01/06/11-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
01/07/11-Black Christmas '06*
01/07/11-Cronos*
01/08/11-Scott Pilgrim Versus the World+
01/09/11-Tron: Legacy*+
01/11/11-Tron*
01/13/11-Hollow Man*
01/14/11-Zombieland+
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01/15/11-Heathers+
01/17/11-The Social Network
01/19/11-Blade II 
01/21/11-The Frighteners+
01/22/11-Cyrus*
01/23/11-The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
01/23/11- Mimic
01/23/11-Inception
01/25/11-Best Worst Movie
01/27/11-Knocked Up
01/30/11-Robocop+
01/30/11-True Grit*
01/30/11-Backdraft*
01/30/11-Ernest Goes to Jail
02/04/11-Robocop 2
02/04/11-The Matrix
02/07/11-Under Siege
02/07/11-Deadgirl*
02/08/11-Maximum Overdrive
02/10/11-Hatchet 2*
02/12/11-Plan 9 From Outer Space+
02/13/11-Ed Wood+
02/13/11-Beyond the Mat
02/20/11-Street Dreams*
02/21/11-Easy A*+
02/23/11-The Rise and Fall of E.C.W.
02/27/11-Ernest Goes to Camp
03/01/11-Exit Through the Gift Shop*
03/03/11-Hype!*
03/05/11-Ferris Bueller's Day Off+
03/06/11-Exit Through the Gift Shop
03/07/11-Pontypool*
03/08/11-Idle Hands
03/09/11-Before Sunrise*
03/12/11-American Movie+
03/13/11-Tombstone
03/14/11-Before Sunset*
03/17/11-sex, lies, and videotape*
03/18/11-Grown Ups*
03/20/11-Kill Bill Vol. 1+
03/21/11-Desperado
03/23/11-Anger Management*
03/25/11-Back to School
03/28/11- Kill Bill Vol. 2+
03/29/11-Waking Sleeping Beauty*
03/30/11-Matrix Revolutions
04/03/11-Cemetery Man
04/06/11-Monday Night War*
04/09/11-Insidious*+
04/09/11-The Town
04/13/11-Kick Ass
04/13/11-Ghostbusters+
04/14/11-Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
04/15/11-Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth
04/17/11-Scream 4*+
04/17/11-Mean Streets
04/19/11-The Shawshank Redemption
04/23/11-True Romance+
04/25/11-Toy Story 3
05/01/11-Scream
05/16/11-Back to the Future 2
05/17/11-Back to the Future 3
05/18/11-Back to the Future
05/19/11-Superbad
05/19/11-National Lampoon's Senior Trip
05/19/11-Private Parts
05/21/11-Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
05/22/11-The Forty Year Old Virgin
05/22/11-
05/23/11-Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides*
05/24/11-Scream 2
05/24/11-Super*
05/25/11-Jackie Brown+
05/25/11-The Social Network+
05/30/11-The Faculty
06/02/11-Kingpin
06/07/11-Demolition Man
06/07/11-Street Trash*
06/09/11-Bloodstained Memoirs*
06/10/11-Super 8*+
06/11/11-Castle Freak*
06/12/11-Total Recall+
06/13/11-The Hangover Part 2*+
06/16/11-Batman
06/18/11- Slam Dunk Ernest
06/21/11-Batman Begins
06/24/11-Batman Forever
06/29/11-Batman and Robin
07/03/11-Casino+
07/04/11-The Baxter*
07/04/11-Capturing the Friedmans*
07/04/11-The Last Boy Scout*
07/06/11-Teen Wolf*
07/07/11-My Soul to Take*
07/09/11-Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning
07/09/11-Arcade*
07/10/11-The Rock*
07/11/11-Return of the Living Dead Part 2
07/12/11-Subspecies*
07/16/11-Up in Smoke+
07/17/11-Tyson*
07/18/11-The Fighter*
07/19/11-Don't Go in the House*
07/20/11-Fight Club
07/25/11-Crazy Heart*
07/25/11-25th Hour*
07/26/11-American History X+
07/31/11-Nixon and Hogan Smoke Christmas*
08/10/11-Platoon
08/14/11-
08/1-/11-Detroit Rock City
08/19/11-Born on the Fourth of July*
08/25/11-Frankenhooker*
09/03/11-Red State*+
09/04/11-Red State
09/09/11-Dogma
09/10/11-Final Destination 3*+
09/15/11-Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
09/17/11-Thor*
09/18/11-Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
09/18/11-Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland
09/18/11-Sleepaway Camp
09/20/11-The Lion King 3-D+
09/21/11-The Devil's Rejects+
09/22/11-Hesher*
09/23/11-Return of the Living Dead (in the Theater)
09/25/11-Red Dawn*
09/25/11-Return to Sleepaway Camp
09/28/11-Still Waiting...*
09/28/11-Tango and Cash
09/30/11-Troll Hunter*
10/01/11-Puppet Master
10/02/11-Puppet Master 2*
10/02/11-Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge*
10/02/11-Puppet Master 4*
10/02/11-Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter*
10/02/11-Curse of the Puppet Master*
10/04/11-Phantasm
10/05/11-Phatasm 2
10/05/11-Ernest Scared Stupid
10/06/11-Hellraiser: Bloodline
10/07/11-Idiocracy
10/09/11-Night of the Living Dead '90
10/11/11-Popcorn
10/12/11-John Carpenter Presents Body Bags
10/15/11-More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead*
10/16/11-The Fog
10/16/11-Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
10/16/11-Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
10/16/11-Night of the Demons 2
10/16/11-Leprechaun 3
10/16/11-Leprechaun 210/19/11-Leprechaun 4: In Space*
10/20/11-The Thing '11*+
10/22/11-Prom Night 4: Deliver Us From Evil*
10/23/11-The Thing
10/23/11-Slither
10/24/11-Leprechaun in the Hood*
10/26/11-The Chaperone*
10/26/11-Idle Hands+
10/27/11-Bubba Ho-Tep
10/27/11-Army of Darkness
10/30/11-Trick 'r Treat+
10/30/11-Halloween+
11/03/11-Beyond the Mat
11/05/11-Conan O'Brien Can't Stop*
11/05/11-A Very Harold and Kumar 3-D Christmas*+
11/07/11-Friday After Next*
11/11/11-Friday+
11/13/11-Punisher: War Zone
11/18/11-Paul*
11/19/11-Captain America: The First Avenger*
11/23/11-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
12/04/11-Beverly Hills Cop*
12/07/11-Amelie*
12/08/11-Take Home Tonight*
12/13/11-Cedar Rapids*
12/15/11-Man on the Moon
12/18/11-Edward Scissorhands
12/18/11-The Long Kiss Goodnight
12/19/11-Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2*
12/22/11-Tucker and Dale vs Evil*
12/22/11-Home Alone+
12/23/11-Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
12/26/11-Delicatessan*
12/29/11-Source Code*
12/29/11-Hell Comes to Frogtown*

First time viewings marked with *
Viewings with Jessica marked with +