John Michael McCarthy Movies

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

A documentary about the razing of Memphis history.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...