John Michael McCarthy Movies

A feature length documentary about the making of Gorotica, a shot on video horror film by Hugh Gallagher. Includes new interviews with a lot of the...

Set in present day Northeastern Mississippi and Memphis, Blackie returns to Earth 42 years after his first visit to complete a mission: Given a...

While delivering an apocalyptic message to his sect, the unearthly Black Jesus orders his leather-clad, biker converts to destroy the pagan mistress...

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...

An amazing and timeless collection of pretty peelers brought to the masses by super 8 seamstress Victoria Renard and Memphis Movie Messiah JMM...

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...

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...

Shot in Memphis and Marion, Arkansas

Waif, a telekinetic teenage robot-fighter survives a crashed spaceship and the death of her little sister at an old abandoned drive-in.

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...

A documentary about the razing of Memphis history.

The film documents the making of the seven-foot tall “Tupelo Elvis” bronze statue by sculptor Bill Beckwith, modeled on Elvis’ pose...

Documentary about the Memphis Academy of Art, culled from the archives of sculptor John McIntire's super 8 films from 1972.

A businessman is led around Tupelo, Mississippi by a '50s tour guide showing him its connection to Elvis Presley.

Destroy Memphis short

JMM and his friendly elitist entourage shot super-8 stag footage of starlets and collected music from bands who played with The Sore Losers!

An inside look at the Malco Summer Drive-In in Memphis, TN.

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...

Short film made for a course at the Memphis College of Art in 2008 that celebrated David Bowie's visit to the school in February 1973 during the...

A David Bowie sculpture idea for Overton Park and the new Metal Museum: An ‘Aladdin Sane’ “weather vane” to celebrate the...