{"id":232,"date":"2007-11-21T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:59:55","slug":"garbage-man-wont-go-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"GARBAGE MAN won’t go to waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many moons ago in MICRO-FILM 2<\/strong>, I briefly chronicled the life and times of underground comics publisher Hart D. Fisher<\/strong> through the filter of his then-dormant horror film, THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong>. Shot on a proverbial shoestring in Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> during the summer of 1993, this moody and gritty exploration of a black serial killer’s exploits has been screaming to be unleashed ever since. You might want to buckle that safety belt and lock up the children, dearie, because Fisher recently told C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> that he’s back on the war path to make sure this comes to fruition.<\/p>\n

Having spent the last near-decade improving his production skills in Los Angeles<\/strong>‘ porn industry, Fisher seems bent on attempting to one-up his notorious Bonyeard Press<\/a><\/strong> imprint which survived bankruptcy and the indecency witch-hunters that buggered the comics industry during the Nineties. Through his other company, CPI Home Video<\/strong> (of which the acronym stands for “Crime Pays, Inc.,” in typical Fisher hyperbole), the GARBAGE<\/strong> man has just finished up post on THE BUNKER<\/strong>, a collaboration with fellow publisher\/director Joe Monks<\/strong>, as well as resumed pre-production on other media projects including his own long-delayed sophomore feature, 13 BLOODY KISSES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Fisher\u00a0also revealed to\u00a0CUBlog <\/strong>that he’s created a new introduction for THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong>, the content of which has yet to be revealed, and renewed his hunt for a distributor. About five years ago, several video labels expressed interest in the film – one even jumped the gun and trumpeted G-MAN<\/strong> as an “upcoming release” of theirs\u00a0to Fangoria<\/u><\/strong> magazine – although nothing came to fruition at that point.<\/p>\n

A new MySpace<\/strong> site called Optimum Wound Comics<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has posted a massive four-part interview with Fisher, in which he discusses the circumstances surrounding\u00a0THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong> as well as a plethora of indie scene drama and personal strife that has not been made public until now. It’s certainly a heavy-duty read that proves not every University of Illinois<\/strong> graduate gets to live the publishing high life like a\u00a0Hugh Hefner<\/strong>, but there’s no denying that he works hard for what he wants and aggressively\u00a0calls “bullshit” when he sees it.<\/p>\n

You can sneak a\u00a0visual peek into our sordid C-U past right here<\/a> courtesy of three GARBAGE<\/strong> MAN<\/strong> trailers, circa 2001. Marvel<\/em>\u00a0at the barely post-Eighties fashion! Rock<\/em> to the likes of Mole Temple<\/strong>, The Trees<\/strong>, and Third Stone<\/a><\/strong>! Witness<\/em> such long-gone establishments as Mabel’s<\/strong> and an earlier Johnstowne Centre<\/strong> incarnation of That’s Rentertainment<\/a><\/strong>! Dare<\/em> to look into the eyes of … the Garbage Man.<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

[Updated 11\/26\/07, 01:30 a.m. CST]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former C-U artistic troublemaker Hart D. Fisher swears that his C-U horror movie, THE GARBAGE MAN, is thisclose to terrorizing a video store near you … and hopefully not just ones in C-U.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-coverage","category-the-old-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}