This is Kevin Strange. He makes movies. Really, really fucked-up and offensive movies that also happen to be pretty fucking funny, if taken in the right spirit. Kevin owns and runs an indie film company called Hack Movies, which to date has released five feature length movies, all on a budget of $500 or less. Coincidentally, you'll find all of them reviewed in this issue of BthroughZ.
Kevin's movies aren't for everyone; they're extremely low budget, they contain rape, necrophilia, beastiality, and numerous types of bodily fluids, plus they have some of the most offensive, and funniest, sex talk ever recorded on film. Seriously, they could make John Waters blush.
Like most teenage girls, Kevin and I met through MySpace. Being from the Mid-West and having a love for shit movies, we hit it off and I decided that he'd be perfect for our next installment of 20 Questions.
So enjoy his 20 questions because they're quite possibly the most offensive thing BthroughZ has ever put on the web.
1. How many past teachers have told you that you wouldn't amount to anything?
I guess almost all of them, and I guess they were pretty much right. I don't think making no-budget straight to video splatter comedy flicks is exactly what my teachers had in mind when they were attempting to educate me. But I was busy skipping school, getting high and fucking all the hot chicks at my school anyway. Call it manifest destiny or something since that's pretty much the extent of the plotlines of my flicks. The one who sucked the worst though was my art teacher who repeatedly told me, in not so many words, that I had no talent as an artist. He went on to have multiple affairs with his female students and last I heard married a chick that's like 20 years younger than him. I think he's a worthless waste of fucking life but maybe I'm just jealous that he got all the yamps and I didn't.
2. At any point while filming a movie have you ever thought that you might have gone a little too far?
Well, there are 3 rape scenes in Stiff Jobs, two of the three involving the rapists getting covered in shit, but it was the third scene, a male on male gang rape that made me feel like I'm probably going to spend eternity in hell. I play one of the rapists and it's my honorable duty to take the rape victim by the hair and shove a fake cock sticking out of my pants into his mouth and gag fuck him for a bit. Even though it was a fake cock, it was still coming out of the area that my cock normally pokes out of, and I was shoving it repeatedly in and out of this guys mouth while holding him by the hair. It just felt very homo erotic, which I normally don't have any problem with, but putting that on film for the rest of forever for everyone I've ever known to see might have been taking it a little far...
3. How much work does a tranny have to have done before it's not gay to have sex with him/her/it?
Having managed a porno shop for 6 years, let me tell you, it doesn't take much. The good ole boys that frequented my store swore up and down that watching a tranny with an 8 inch uncut black cock cornhole another man was not gay, cause he has (clearly fake) tits, so he must be a woman of some sort. That's why I put so much tranny material into my movies. It would just blow my mind that these homophobic rednecks would sandwich tranny porn in between 2 or 3 other rentals EVERY TIME they rented flicks. We used to joke that we could throw away all the straight porn in the store, make it nothing but tranny movies and probably make more money. But my question to you sir is, are you gay if you jack off to a chick fucking a tranny? Think about that one...
4. Who would win in a no-holds-barred fight between a prime Iron Shiek and a prime Abdullah the Butcher?
Well I always thought they both kind of sucked. They were pretty big dudes who didn't do much but stomp around and fake punch each other, even in their prime, and that era of wrestling was much more about the theatrics and much less about actually technical wrestling, so in a no-holds-barred fight they'd probably both stand there shouting at one another while flexing their oiled pecs, punching their fists into their other hands, and pointing a lot. I always loved how the ultimate warrior would sprint to the ring and run around like a madman shaking the ropes until his was totally blown out. The match would start and he'd have to go right to a headlock just to catch his wind. Wrestling is great.
5. I see you're a fan of ICP. As a basic rule, the average man on the street views ICP and juggalos in general as kind of a joke. Do you accept this with a sense of humour or is that shit deadly serious to you?
That's the beauty of the juggalo world. We're so ignored and misunderstood by basically everyone, even other subcultures of supposedly open minded counter culture types, that we're looked at as just a bunch of retard clowns, and that's just exactly the way we like it. You see, what the juggalos have is pure magic. You've never experienced anything quite like an ICP show live. The vibe of pure positive energy and magic in the air is something that can't be explained, it has to be experienced. So to all those who hate on Juggalos and ICP, keep it up! As long as you think ICP are just a couple clowns farting into a microphone, and Juggalos are just wannabe suburban gangstas, then our secret is safe mothafako!
6. When was the last time you made a chick cry?
Daily. I live with my girlfriend and her 3 kids-all girls. Sometimes I'm an asshole just for waking up in the morning. Have you ever gag fucked a chick till she cried? Like smacked her around and really gave it to her? There's something about a chick crying that really makes my penis happy. You think that's like a mental illness?
7. Would you have sex with your sister for a million dollars?
That's a fucked up question to ask someone! Obviously my gut response is no, but a million dollars is a lot of money, and my sister is hot...
8. Would you shoot yourself in the foot if you could receive disability for the rest of your life and therefore never have to work again?
Contrary to what you might think by watching my ridiculous movies, I actually have a very strong work ethic. If I didn't, these things wouldn't get made at all. Even a shitty, ultra low budget flick that only costs 500 bucks like COCKHAMMER still takes endless hours of pre-production, production, and post before it can be handed out to the masses and ridiculed for being a horrendous piece of shit. So no, I don't think I wouldn't work for the rest of my life, but fuck yeah I'd shoot myself in the foot for a million dollars, that's a fucking lot of tranny hookers and coke!
9. If you had to make the choice, would you rather give up all sexual activity (including masturbation) or all drugs and alcohol?
Well, luckily I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs anymore so I kind of win that question by default. I could never give up sex or jacking off. Where would I get material for my movies? For a long time I couldn't cum when I fucked a chick, so I'd end up having to jack off after sex anyway, so that would just fuck my whole mojo.
10. What do your parents think of your movies?
I come from a shitty industrial town on the east side of Strangeville in the midwest. Everyone here is poor, uneducated, and ridiculously conservative. My parents don't understand what I do any more than they'd understand if I was a painter or a musician. It's just unheard of to be an artist when the two jobs in town are a bullet factory and an oil refinery. So I only tell them what I have to when it comes to my "career". They probably think I shoot porno and honestly that's not very far from the truth.
11. Someone once told me, "Never overlook a fat chick, they've got something to prove." Do you think this statement is true?
I lost my virginity to a fat chick, but I'm not a fan of fucking them in general. They do enthusiastically suck a mean dick, as a rule, but they're very clingy. Also I'm a fat fuck myself, it's hard to get genitalia to dock with each other when you have enormous, disgusting fat deposits jutting out in front of the both of you. I fucked a fat chick in the ass once and was seriously worried she was going to shit all over me at any second. Strangely I was a bit turned on...
12. Is it more important to you to shock or to entertain?
Well, seeing as how I'm a talentless hack with more ambition and heart than sense or skill, I find it very difficult to entertain people in the traditional sense with my films. So I go for shocking images and situations. I can't tell you a thought provoking story, so instead I make a dude get shot in the face, shit himself, and then ask his girlfriend to jack him off before he dies so he doesn't expire with blue balls. Classy, huh? I even fail in that a lot of the time.
13. There's three scenes that almost make me throw-up every time I watch them. The first is the puss in the custard scene from Dead/Alive (I don't know why this one bothers me so much, there's nothing particularly vile about it), the second is the puke drinking scene from Bad Taste and the last is Divine's shit eating scene from Pink Flamingos. Is there anything in any movie that turns your stomach every time you watch it?
Those are all fantastic movies! Watching the pube trimming scene in COCKHAMMER turns my stomach because I'm so fucking fat I actually have to like, lift my lard away from my pelvic region to see my little curlies enough to take a razor to them. Other than that, I guess I've just been desensitized to extreme shit. I watched Faces of Death when I was a kid, and the internet was just getting it's legs when I was a teenager in high school so I saw all kinds of nasty ass, for real types of shit like murders, dead bodies, beastiality, and shit eating. I'm always more interested in how movies do their gore scenes than actually getting sick from them.
14. Are you sick of torture movies yet?
I was never really a fan of torture movies. I never watched slasher flicks because the killer brutally raped and killed naked women, I watched them because the killers and monsters looked cool. I always wanted to be a monster when I was a kid, but I never wanted to kill anyone, whatever that means. So when torture movies came along, they kind of forgot the cool killers and just focused on brutality against women. I'm not saying fucking up chicks isn't necessary sometimes, you gotta keep your bitch in place or she's probably going to be sucking 5 different dicks while telling you how much she loves you and that you can never leave her, but that shit gets boring fast in movies without a cool monster to look at.
15. What happens after you die?
Who knows? I am fairly confident that we don't ascend to a white, cloudy heaven populated by all the pets we've had in our lives and our grandparents. And IF that place really exists, I'm probably going to try to commit afterlife suicide, because that means that ridiculous shit like Noah's Ark and baby Jesus were actually true and if that's the case, then the universe is infinitely less profound and mysterious than it should be. It'll have been created by an egomaniac that wants dudes to cut off the tip of their wieners, sacrifice animals, kill non-believers, and sing songs of his glory for eternity. Count me out of that shitfest.
16. Would you kill someone if there was absolutely no way you could be caught?
Yeah. There are a few lying, cheating skank whores that I'd like to put in the ground, but I'm not a naturally vindictive person. I don't waste my energy on hatred or holding grudges. I do have a pretty cool outlet though. When I was developing COCKHAMMER I was dating this bimbo that was clearly lying to me about everything and fucking a bunch of other dudes behind my back. Well, I didn't have an opening scene for the movie yet, and when all her skaniness came to light and the truth was exposed I turned my anger to my writing. That's why the opening is so brutal. Before all that, there was no chick getting hit in the face with a baseball bat, getting her tits cut off with a chainsaw and then eaten or any of that shit. It's really satisfying to know that thousands of people have seen that scene, it's very personal to me.
17. What's your guilty pleasure movie? Everybody has one. Mine's 'Stick It', the girl gymnastics movie.
I love all the 80s Man Movies. I'm talking Blood Sport, above the law, Rambo, The Running Man. I'll watch any movie with Van Dam, Segal, Stallone, Arnold, any of them. But only the 80s and very early 90s movies. After that they all became shoot em up gun flicks which aren't nearly as rediculous as the martial arts movies of the 80s where these roid heads fight drug cartels and terrorists with their bare hands and feet.
18. Suppose someone gave you a million dollars to make movies with. Would you use the entire million to make one movie or would make a thousand $1000 movies?
I would definitely make as many movies with it as possible. I'm a huge fan of the Roger Corman style of filmmaking. I would like to do movies with like 10-15 thousand dollar budgets, but in today's world of digital filmmaking, a 15k budget is equal to 500 grand 30 or 40 years ago. There's only so much you can do with 50 bucks and a jug of karo syrup, and I think after 5 feature length films I've just about tapped that well dry. I want to write and direct 50-100 flicks in my lifetime. I have a lot more fucked up Strangeville Stories. We're just getting started with these characters and this town. I want to do 4 or 5 features next year alone.
19. If someone in Hollywood was an alien sent to Earth to subjugate the human race, who do you think it would be? I vote for Oprah, but you can pick anyone you want.
I'd go with Michael Bay. I mean how do people take this dude's movies seriously? He's like a metal band that's stuck in constant guitar solo. Solo's are cool but only when they're done in moderation and in the context of a kickass song. You can't just walk out on stage and wail away and expect to sound cool. That's what a Michael Bay movie is to me. Fuck Transformers. Every exterior shot is a sunset, every car ride is a music video. Every fight scene is cut up to half a second shots that make no sense and have no rhythm or grace to them. I think he's deliberately dumbing down the human race so that in a few generations the aliens can just put up huge signs that say "Come get eaten by aliens, it's cool!" and we'll do it cause we're so fucking lame and dumb.
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