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 FANGORIA ENTERTAINMENT in association with AMERICAN HORRORS and NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS are giving 21 lucky FANGORIA readers tickets to the 2009 SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR!
In addition, AMERICAN HORRORS & NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS are packing BLOODY TICKETS in random copies of the upcoming DVD release, THE GARBAGE MAN! Get the full details on those, and how to enter after the jump!
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR BLOODY TICKET?
Find a “Bloody Ticket” in any American Horrors DVD Release and win concert tickets to The Summer Slaughter Tour!
The new horror powerhouse on the block, American Horrors, has teamed up with Nuclear Blast Records to giveaway tickets to their big summer concert event, The Summer Slaughter Tour, by placing The Bloody Ticket into random American Horrors dvd releases beginning this June with The Garbage Man. Finding one of the signed & numbered Bloody Tickets garners the lucky winner tickets to The Summer Slaughter Tour.
“As a long time Fango Fiend and metalhead I know how similar these two audiences are,” Said American Horrors President Hart D. Fisher, “with this ticket giveaway I’m seeking to unite and give true value to these audiences. American Horrors is not just another horror movie house. This is just the beginning of our real world horror revolution.”
Bands currently on the SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR include: Necrophagist, Suffocation, Ensiferum (second half), Darkest Hour, Winds Of Plague, Dying Fetus, Born Of Osiris, Origin, Beneath The Massacre (first half), After The Burial, Decrepit Birth (first half), Blackguard (second half), and Behemoth (select dates).
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You can catch the tour on the following dates:
* 6/10 - Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
* 6/12 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners
* 6/13 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
* 6/14 - St. Petersburg (Tampa), FL @ Jannus Landing
* 6/15 - Jacksonville, FL @ Plush
* 6/16 - Orlando, FL @ Club Firestone
* 6/18 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit (Night One)
* 6/19 - Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
* 6/20 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit (Night Two)
* 6/21 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
* 6/23 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
* 6/24 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
* 6/26 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre
* 6/27 - San Diego, CA @ Soma
* 6/28 - Anaheim, CA @ The Grove
* 6/29 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
* 6/30 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
* 7/01 - San Francisco, CA @ The Grand Ballroom
* 7/02 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
* 7/03 - Seattle, WA @ King Cat Theater
* 7/07 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
* 7/09 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
* 7/10 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
* 7/11 - Birch Run, MI @ DirtFest
* 7/12 - Lakewood, OH @ Phantasy Concert Club
* 7/13 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
* 7/14 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
* 7/15 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
* 7/16 - Montreal, QC @ Medley
* 7/17 - Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
* 7/18 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
* 7/19 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza (Day One)
* 7/20 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza (Day Two)
Tickets and more info are available on the official tour website and myspace page.
READY FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN?
Send an email to slaughter@fangoria.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Be sure to include your name, address, phone number, and which date and location you would like to attend. You may only enter once, and duplicate and/or incomplete entries will be discarded. Contest open to U.S. residents only, 18 and over please. Winners will be chosen and notified on or about Friday, June 19th. Good Luck!
Please note: Prize fulfillment will be handled by AMERICAN HORRORS and NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
For more:
* http://www.americanhorrors.com/
* http://www.nuclearblastusa.com
* http://www.fangoria.com
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LOS ANGELES, CA- The scariest man in America, Hart D. Fisher, through his production company Crime Pays Inc., announced that he has entered into an agreement with Todd Taylor’s Indie Pictures to distribute his American Horrors brand of horror themed programming throughout America beginning in June with the long awaited DVD release of Fisher’s directorial debut, The Garbage Man.
“This distribution agreement, along with our foreign broadcast television deals, is a major opportunity for independent horror creators across America.” Said producer Hart D. Fisher. “I will be overseeing all aspects of this deal personally, from film selection, advertising, marketing, packaging, the works. Todd is a visionary businessman with a great hunger to change the way the horror business works. Together we’re going to turn this genre on its head.”
The first film released under the American Horrors label through Indie Pictures, The Garbage Man, will be released in stores June, 2009.
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The DVD release of the critically acclaimed film will feature an introduction by the director discussing the tragedies associated with the making of the film, namely the motel murder of Mr. Fisher’s first love and live in girlfriend during the making of The Garbage Man and the subsequent decade of murder trials that followed. Testifying and suffering through 3 different murder trials to keep her murderer locked up in prison, Mr. Fisher has never discussed these events publicly, until now.
Says Fisher, “There’s a great deal of personal pain associated with The Garbage Man, it’s not something I’ve ever been able to talk about publicly, but now with the documentary on my life shooting, the release of Garbage Man coming up, I find it’s something I’m going to have to deal with. I mean, this is an intensely disturbing film, even for me.”
Mr. Fisher is currently seeking out more indie filmmakers, feature films, shorts and horror themed music videos to be part of the American Horrors brand that reaches into tens of millions of households across countries including France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and now America via Broadcast television, DVD, VOD and Internet downloads. Anyone interested in seeking out more information or wishes to submit their work for review, please contact us at:submissions@americanhorrors.com.
“ I didn't think a film about a black serial killer would get to me, but it did. The Garbage Man really got under my skin. I loved it.”
-Tony Timpone/Fangoria
“ THE GARBAGE MAN is an intelligent horror-drama that is well worth blowing chunks over. One audacious bastard of a serial killer.”
-Rue Morgue
For more information about American Horrors or Indie Pictures check us out on the web:
http://www.indie-pictures.com/
For further inquiries or to acquire graphics for your article please email us at:
info@crimepaysinc.com
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LOS ANGELES, CA - In a surprise move, Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president, Hart D. Fisher, has announced the latest critical addition to his filmmaking machine, Horror Porn auteur, Craven Moorehead. The two have stated their alliance has one goal only: to take on the world of music videos, drag it kicking and screaming into a dark alley, and whip the sunuvabitch to within an inch of it’s life and make it beg for more.
“I was cutting a few jobs for Glenn Danzig.” Said controversial filmmaker Hart D. Fisher. “And what I noticed was that we kept going to the B camera constantly for the best footage. This happened over a few projects, and the man behind that camera was Craven Moorehead. I already loved this guy’s porn, Grub Girl rocked, I knew I wanted to work with him right then and there.”
One would be hard pressed to find two more controversial creators in the world of horror or porn, let alone working together. Mr. Fisher’s post production facility, Crime Pays Inc, has been responsible for the look and editing on multiple AVN Award Nominated horror porns Club Satan (Matt Zane),
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Porn of the Dead (Rob Rotten), and now by adding legendary Grub Girl director and musician Craven Moorehead to his team the circle is complete.
“After adapting Glenn Danzig’s Grub Girl to XXX, you gotta say, where do I go from here?” Said Mr. Moorehead “I got my answer in Hart D. Fisher. From his Dahmer comics in the 90’s to his cutting edge editing in adult, this is a guy I can tear up the world of music videos with. What other working director in horror has been on both Jerry Springer and Larry King, let alone survived a protest march on his house? We’re gonna definitely shake things up.”
After tackling the fetish/horror/club visuals for the upcoming My Bloody Valentine fetish event on February 14th, Moorehead and Fisher are currently in talks with several metal bands for their next video project. For anyone interested in seeking out the filmmaking duo for their next music video project, please contact us at: info@crimepaysinc.com.
For more information about Hart D. Fisher check us out on the web:
http://www.myspace.com/cravenmooreheadxxx
For further inquiries or to acquire graphics for your article please email us at:
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  LOS ANGELES, CA- In the 1990s, perhaps no independent publisher partied as hard, shook the industry's foundations, or endured more public and private turmoil than Boneyard Press founder and president Hart D. Fisher. While the man Hero Illustrated dubbed 'The Most Dangerous Man In Comics' was interviewed in virtually every comics trade publication and on mainstream TV programs like Larry King Live, The Jerry Springer Show, and The Sally Jesse Raphael Show, Fisher always held back. Some subjects were too personal; too painful to broach. Living on the edge for the better part of a decade, there were stories behind the stories, skeletons in the closet, and bloody ghosts that continue to haunt him to this day.
When Roger Scheck began looking for his next feature film project, after his searing directorial debut (Nobody Loves Alice), he was brought to a dead stop upon meeting the controversial publisher turned filmmaker. For the first time ever, he opens up about subjects that still bear scars as fresh as when they first formed. The murder of his first love & live in girlfriend during filming of his debut feature film, The Garbage Man; the legal battles fought over the publication of his Jeffrey Dahmer comics; the events which led to a threatened KKK protest march on his home in Illinois; what brought him out to Los Angeles and eventually led to him running the show at rock superstar Glenn Danzig's Verotik and the creation of the most controversial comic book in 50 years (Verotika #4’s “A Taste of Cherry”), the shut down of Planet Comics in Oklahoma City, the true story behind Hart D. Fisher’s “Death” in a 1998 April Fools Day prank gone wrong, discovering a young Gerard (My Chemical Romance Frontman) Way and taking the young artist (at the tender age of 15) under his wing, the decade long legal battle to keep the murderer of his first love in prison.
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If Fisher kept a lid on some of the subjects in his life, which at the time had him on the brink, that lid has been ripped off and thrown aside in this shocking new documentary project helmed by Roger Scheck.
“What was going on in my life—the real story, the behind-the-scenes,” Fisher says, “is something only a few people really know. Some friends, my Dad (who passed away in 2005), Joe Monks…not a lot of people outside my inner circle had any idea what was going on. Both the good stuff and the things that made my life a living hell.”
Not surprisingly, when Fisher began to consider revealing some of the details for his new television show, American Horrors, even more spilled out than anticipated. Says longtime friend and frequent co-collaborator Joe Monks, whose own feature film (The Bunker) Fisher co-produced, “What Hart's finally letting out will blow your mind. This is the kind of interview you'd see on 60 Minutes in its heyday, or in PLAYBOY--if they had the guts to print it just the way Hart tells it. It's funny, it's shocking, it's an emotional rollercoaster. Be prepared when this documentary is finished—it's not some fluff piece about a guy who's accomplished a lot. This is riveting story about a man who survived his worst nightmares and changed an entire industry. This is the real deal, warts and all.”
Filmmaker, bouncer, post house CEO and perhaps the most controversial figure in comic books since William M. Gaines. Hart Fisher has the kind of stories roadies for the Rolling Stones envy. And he's finally telling them all.
To see the interview that started it all off, check out it out at the new optimumwound.com site (with all new pictures and youtube clips):
http://www.optimumwound.com/hart-fisher-tells-us-crazy-stories-in-the-beginning.htm
http://www.optimumwound.com/hart-fisher-tells-us-crazy-stories-about-the-boneyard-days.htm
Nobody Loves Alice director, Roger Scheck, grew up in McAlester Oklahoma where his interest in film was spawned by a close friend. While attending the North Carolina School of the Arts (Majoring in Cinematography) Scheck wrote, directed and produced his first feature film, Nobody Loves Alice. This film was shot on location in Winston-Salem, NC in 12 days over the winter break of his senior year of college. This film has since been picked up by Indie Pictures, a child of Warner, and is currently being re-mastered for it's television debut in 17 countries across Europe and Asia.
For more information on Roger Scheck Please check these links:
http://www.nobodylovesalice.com
http://www.scheckmedia.com
http://www.myspace.com/alicefilm
For more information on indy publishing legend Hart D. Fisher, visit:
http://www.boneyardpress.net
http://www.crimepaysinc.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile
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LOS ANGELES, CA- Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president, Hart D. Fisher, has announced that his American Horrors television show has thrown its’ support to another stellar horror film festival by becoming an official sponsor of the New York City Horror Film Festival. American Horrors will be covering the festival as part of its’ ongoing coverage of the American Horror industry for European television audiences and pounding the pavement looking for the next wave of bloody film makers.
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“The New York City Horror Film Festival was one of the first festivals to screen my work.” Said producer Hart D. Fisher. “Now through American Horrors I’m looking forward to bringing our television spotlight to, what I consider to be one of the best horror film festivals in America, if not the world.”
Here are links to several American Horrors samples:
CM Downs interview:
Flowers on the Razorwire sample:
Heidi Martinuzzi Blooper Clip:
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LOS ANGELES, CA — In Cold Blog (ICB), founded by Los Angeles Times and Borders International best selling author Corey Mitchell, is the Internet’s leading true crime blog. With several contributing writers that cover the gamut from Pulitzer Prize nominees, award winning journalists and authors, criminal justice and medical professionals, victim’s rights advocates and even family members of the victim of a serial killer, In Cold Blog has been providing a unique voice to issues involving crime and justice since June 2007.
When In Cold Blog’’s editor, Michelle McKee, went looking for someone to represent the voice of America’s freedom of speech, censorship, morality gone wrong, exploitation, and the removal of one’s Constitutional guarantee of freedom, she looked no further than the notorious publisher of Boneyard Press, Hart D. Fisher.
Fisher’s opinions on serial killers and serial killer culture have been sought by numerous television producers for programs such as ABC's DayOne, CNN's Murder By Numbers, Entertainment Tonight, Larry King Live, The Jerry Springer Show, CNN Headline News, A&E's Biography, and in magazines such as Time, Tattoo Savage, Hero Illustrated, People, The Comics Journal, and the non-fiction best seller The A-Z Guide to Serial Killers, to name only a few.
An individual who takes his work to the extreme, Fisher pushes the envelope on the boundaries of freedom of expression beyond that which many are comfortable with. His work has been banned and pulled from shelves and his books have been destroyed by the distribution house itself.
With credits dotting his portfolio that include the production of indie horror films, the creation of serial killer comic books, the production of pornography, horror porn to be specific, as well as critically acclaimed poetry, Hart D. Fisher has been called one of the "100 Most Important People In The Comics Industry" by Hero Illustrated. He has also been one of the most universally despised individuals to have ever set foot in adult theme comics, let alone within in the crime genre itself. As the controversial publisher behind Boneyard Press, Fisher created Jeffrey Dahmer: An Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer, A comic book that started a firestorm which brought death threats, stalkers, lawsuits, protest marches, including a threatened KKK protest march on his home in Illinois, a SWAT team to his door, and a request by the local police to leave town.
As managing editor of Glenn Danzig’s publishing company Verotik, Fisher created a comic book murder story, Verotika #4, “A Taste of Cherry,” that was considered to be so offensive and obscene it shut down Planet Comics in Oklahoma City in the early 90’s and the work was banned. It is still banned in that state today.
Even OJ Simpson has sued Fisher for his satirical portrayal in Boneyard Press’ comic book creations.
Hart Fisher produces the type of material that members of the morality police generally object to. His work is considered by some to be vile and offensive, and it is exactly the type of unpopular speech that is at the forefront of assaults by the so called moral majority against our Constitutional liberties. It is the type of material that is typically blamed for various public ills and criminal activity; after all, we've all heard what the Uptight Ninny Brigade has to say about sex crimes, metal music and video games.
Fisher couldn't be a more appropriate voice representing freedom of expression, and the shredding of the Untied States Constitution. Hart D. Fisher has fought for his right as an American citizen to exercise his freedom of speech – and he has lost.
For more information on indie publishing legend Hart D. Fisher, visit:
http://www.boneyardpress.net
http://www.crimepaysinc.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=crimepayshart
For more information regarding the true crime site In Cold Blog, visit:
http://incoldblogger.blogspot.com
Or contact Corey Mitchell and Michelle McKee directly:
Corey Mitchell: truecrimewriter@aol.com
Michelle McKee: truecrimewriter@aol.com
 LOS ANGELES, CA- Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president, Hart D. Fisher, has announced the latest critically acclaimed film addition to his American Horrors slate of programming with the signing of Filmmaking team Eric Shapiro Rhoda Jordan’s deeply disturbed horrornoir, Rule of 3.
The movie, a psychological shocker about sexual compulsives and predators, has accumulated universal critical praise during its 2008 festival run garnering it’s cast Best Actor (Fantasia Film Festival, Ben Siegler), Best Acting Performance (Shriekfest, Rhoda Jordan) and earned itself critical praise from The Austin Chronicle, Fangoria, The Montreal Gazette and so many more.
“I was immediately impressed with Eric and Rhoda and what they had to say about horror at Shriekfest.” Said producer Hart D. Fisher. “When I was first given the opportunity of producing a show on the American horror scene, I knew that I was going to be on the hunt for films like this. Rule of 3 keeps you guessing the entire way through the movie, turning the screws with every revelation. This is not just another direct to video garbage release. Rule of 3 is a serious film made by filmmakers who understand the genre and bring it forward, instead of rehashing old formulas.”
Says ROT’s producer/director, Eric Shapiro, “Hart Fisher’s sensibility is a great match for our film. When I was in high school, I followed Fisher in the media, defending his Jeffrey Dahmer comics against the censorship sheep. It’s thrilling to have made a movie that’s now part of his American Horrors brand.”
Mr. Fisher is currently seeking out more indie filmmakers, feature films, shorts and horror themed music videos for broadcast across a platform that reaches into tens of millions of households across countries including France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and more. Anyone interested in seeking out more information or wishes to submit their work for review, please contact us at: submissions@americanhorrors.com.
“...a rare and engrossing work whose qualities can perhaps best be likened to a darker PT Anderson or Steven Soderbergh.”
-Mitch Davis, Programmer, FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL
-Kevin Lindenmuth, BURIED.COM
For more information about American Horrors check us out on the web:
American Horrors with Scream Queen Brooke Lewis
American Horrors Tips for Filmmakers
For further inquiries or to acquire graphics for your article please email us at:
info@crimepaysinc.com
 
LOS ANGELES, CA- As the sun set on Friday August 22nd, horror film music maestro, Harry Manfredini, sat down with the scariest man in America, Hart D. Fisher, to talk film score composition, the creation of the iconic FRIDAY THE 13th scores, his life long association and friendship with Sean S. Cunningham, and so much more.
“Manfredini created one of the most recognizable horror themes in the world for Friday the 13th.” Said producer Hart D. Fisher. “It’s right up there with the Jaws theme, and to have had the opportunity to speak with this man about horror filmmaking, editing, and what makes a horror film score tick, that was a real honor for me.”
“I showed up for a little interview at 8’o’clock, but by the time I left it was 1 in the morning.” Said the legendary fright film composer. “Between the great wine and the great conversation, I didn’t want to leave. I can’t wait to see this interview hit the airwaves.”
Here is are links to two 30 Second American Horrors commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZuM0eRuGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcyiBydxjd8
LOS ANGELES, CA- Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president Hart D.
Fisher has announced the latest addition to his American Horrors slate of programming with Emmy Award Nominated Filmmaker Kenneth J. Hall’s Halfway House.
“As the creator of the PuppetMaster series Ken is one of the true horror veterans who’ve really seen and done it all in the genre,” says producer Hart D. Fisher. “His movie, The Halfway House, is a fun-filled monster romp at a Catholic High School gone horribly wrong. It's a wonderful addition to our show.”
LOS ANGELES, CA- Crime Pays, Inc. founder and president, Hart D. Fisher, has announced the latest addition to his American Horrors television production team, St. Louis, Missouri’s most successful independent filmmaker John “Insaniac” Specht.
“John brings a hunger and vision to filmmaking that sets him apart from the rest of the herd.” Says series producer Hart D. Fisher. “Through John, and other filmmakers like him, I intend to bring my production dollars and television exposure to the heartland of America where the blood is thicker and hearts beat stronger.”
Currently on location in St. Louis filming a one hour mini-feature for the new European television program, Project 22: Savage Breed, Mr. Specht was very excited to be a part of the American Horrors team. “I’ve been a fan of Hart Fisher’s work and his publishing company Boneyard Press for a long time, for me to be his first round draft pick for his new European television series, that’s a real honor.” Says Specht. “My entire team is humming and ready to show the world what can do. This is exactly what I’ve been working towards.”
One of the longest fixtures on the dark metal scene, Glenn Danzig,
has tapped outlaw filmmaker Hart D. Fisher to edit his VEROTIKA short
film “She Only Likes Men.” That’s right, the team that brought you the
single most controversial comic story in the last 40 years (“A
Taste of Cherry” from Verotika #4, is the comic book that lead
local police to shut down Planet Comics Oklahoma City and was deemed as
“Obscene Material” by the state of Oklahoma) has reunited to turn the knife
on unsuspecting movie goers.
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