Movies: John Michael McCarthy

A documentary about the razing of Memphis history....

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 ...

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), th...

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 cast, crew, and other filmmakers and never before seen behind the scenes footage from on the set of Go...

Based on the comic, the film follows the adventures of Damselvis....

Set in present day Northeastern Mississippi and Memphis, Blackie 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, he is to finish his original mission of killing 12 vict...

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 be...

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 Augus...

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 tr...

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....

A David Bowie sculpture idea for Overton Park and the new Metal Museum: An ‘Aladdin Sane’ “weather vane” to celebrate the 50th anniversary appearance of Ziggy Stardust in Memphis and his visit to the Memphis Academy of Art in February, 1973. Named af...

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-w...

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

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

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

Destroy Memphis short...

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

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....

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

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 Aladdin Sane tour. The 6 week course instructed by Mike McCarthy was called THE FILM CLASS THAT FELL TO E...