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“ 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
He could be anyone.
He could be anywhere.
He can take you any time.
By day he has a job like any other man. He has bills to pay, a fridge to fill and time to kill. Working as a garbage man in Anytown, Middle America, Tom has no friends, no real ambition or career drive. but he has voices. Screaming and cursing and burning their way across the years, reminding him of all the things THEY did to him as a boy, and never letting up... until he does things. Bad things.
After eleven years on the prowl, often one step behind you in the night, The Garbage Man is here. He's been waiting for just this moment to take you with him on his night dark journeys, a companion he can drag with him every bloody step-by-dying-step. After years of crushing loneliness, The Garbage Man has someone to share with. You.
Written and directed by controversial author Hart D. Fisher in 1993, Fisher was at the very beginning of the media frenzy over his biography of Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Hounded by protest marches on his home and television ambushes on his character, Fisher conceived the story of a deranged sociopath walking the street of America, one like the many Fisher had read about in newspaper headline after newspaper headline. The Garbage Man is a twisted nightmare walk through the landscape of a serial killers psyche. After years immersed in serial killer research, Fisher birthed his deeply disturbing portrait of a black man on the edge, a twisted, lonely man driven to kill again and again and again. Fisher created a serial killer (The Garbage Man is the very first feature film about a black serial killer) so real he could have stepped from the headlines... and several months after wrapping principal photography on location in Champaign Illinois, he did; in the form of Henry Louis Wallace.
After eleven years on the prowl, often one step behind you in the night, The Garbage Man is here. He's been waiting for just this moment to take you with him on his night dark journeys, a companion he can drag with him every bloody step-by-dying-step.
-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
He could be anyone.
He could be anywhere.
He can take you any time.
By day he has a job like any other man. He has bills to pay, a fridge to fill and time to kill. Working as a garbage man in Anytown, Middle America, Tom has no friends, no real ambition or career drive. but he has voices. Screaming and cursing and burning their way across the years, reminding him of all the things THEY did to him as a boy, and never letting up... until he does things. Bad things.
After eleven years on the prowl, often one step behind you in the night, The Garbage Man is here. He's been waiting for just this moment to take you with him on his night dark journeys, a companion he can drag with him every bloody step-by-dying-step. After years of crushing loneliness, The Garbage Man has someone to share with. You.
Written and directed by controversial author Hart D. Fisher in 1993, Fisher was at the very beginning of the media frenzy over his biography of Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Hounded by protest marches on his home and television ambushes on his character, Fisher conceived the story of a deranged sociopath walking the street of America, one like the many Fisher had read about in newspaper headline after newspaper headline. The Garbage Man is a twisted nightmare walk through the landscape of a serial killers psyche. After years immersed in serial killer research, Fisher birthed his deeply disturbing portrait of a black man on the edge, a twisted, lonely man driven to kill again and again and again. Fisher created a serial killer (The Garbage Man is the very first feature film about a black serial killer) so real he could have stepped from the headlines... and several months after wrapping principal photography on location in Champaign Illinois, he did; in the form of Henry Louis Wallace.
After eleven years on the prowl, often one step behind you in the night, The Garbage Man is here. He's been waiting for just this moment to take you with him on his night dark journeys, a companion he can drag with him every bloody step-by-dying-step.
After years of crushing loneliness, The Garbage
Man has someone to share with. You.
Written and directed by controversial author Hart D. Fisher in 1993, Fisher was at the very beginning of the media frenzy over his biography of Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Hounded by protest marches on his home and television ambushes on his character, Fisher conceived the story of a deranged sociopath walking the street of America, one like the many Fisher had read about in newspaper headline after newspaper headline. The Garbage Man is a twisted nightmare walk through the landscape of a serial killers psyche. After years immersed in serial killer research, Fisher birthed his deeply disturbing portrait of a black man on the edge, a twisted, lonely man driven to kill again and again and again. Fisher created a serial killer (The Garbage Man is the very first feature film about a black serial killer) so real he could have stepped from the headlines... and several months after wrapping principal photography on location in Champaign Illinois, he did; in the form of Henry Louis Wallace.
“ ...Frightening...”
-World of Fandom
“ THE GARBAGE MAN is rough, unapologetic, guerrilla film making that works!”
-Microfilm
Once a silky voiced DJ in Barnwell, South Carolina, Wallace now sits in a jail cell convicted of one of the state's worst killing sprees: a body count of 10 women raped and strangled over a two-year period. The parallels between The Garbage Man and real life killer Wallace were both shocking and provocative. While Fisher wrote and filmed Tom and his cinematic crimes, Wallace was acting out the fiction in the flesh.
Much like the fictional protagonist Tom in The Garbage Man, Wallace's real life victims were taken in by his open smile, solicitous attitude and his victims welcomed him into their homes. Tom bows, scrapes and bludgeons his way into his victims' lives and leaves a trail of bodies in his wake.
“ Disturbing. Like watching a train wreck, you can't look away.”
-Rene Anthony Torres, Alpine Pictures International Inc
The Garbage Man was filmed on 16mm in a two-week shoot on location in Champaign, Illinois. Local bars, homes, restaurants, video stores and highways were used to capture the everyday life of a serial killer. From doing his laundry, the dishes and dealing with the dirty old man next door, The Garbage Man could be someone you already know.
Written and directed by controversial author Hart D. Fisher in 1993, Fisher was at the very beginning of the media frenzy over his biography of Milwaukee Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Hounded by protest marches on his home and television ambushes on his character, Fisher conceived the story of a deranged sociopath walking the street of America, one like the many Fisher had read about in newspaper headline after newspaper headline. The Garbage Man is a twisted nightmare walk through the landscape of a serial killers psyche. After years immersed in serial killer research, Fisher birthed his deeply disturbing portrait of a black man on the edge, a twisted, lonely man driven to kill again and again and again. Fisher created a serial killer (The Garbage Man is the very first feature film about a black serial killer) so real he could have stepped from the headlines... and several months after wrapping principal photography on location in Champaign Illinois, he did; in the form of Henry Louis Wallace.
“ ...Frightening...”
-World of Fandom
“ THE GARBAGE MAN is rough, unapologetic, guerrilla film making that works!”
-Microfilm
Once a silky voiced DJ in Barnwell, South Carolina, Wallace now sits in a jail cell convicted of one of the state's worst killing sprees: a body count of 10 women raped and strangled over a two-year period. The parallels between The Garbage Man and real life killer Wallace were both shocking and provocative. While Fisher wrote and filmed Tom and his cinematic crimes, Wallace was acting out the fiction in the flesh.
Much like the fictional protagonist Tom in The Garbage Man, Wallace's real life victims were taken in by his open smile, solicitous attitude and his victims welcomed him into their homes. Tom bows, scrapes and bludgeons his way into his victims' lives and leaves a trail of bodies in his wake.
“ Disturbing. Like watching a train wreck, you can't look away.”
-Rene Anthony Torres, Alpine Pictures International Inc
The Garbage Man was filmed on 16mm in a two-week shoot on location in Champaign, Illinois. Local bars, homes, restaurants, video stores and highways were used to capture the everyday life of a serial killer. From doing his laundry, the dishes and dealing with the dirty old man next door, The Garbage Man could be someone you already know.
Utilizing local friends of Fisher & co producer
Robert Gibson, a cast of unknown student actors and a crew consisting
entirely of University of Illinois graduates, the film was shot and sent
off to Los Angeles for editing by music video editor Bill Yukich.
For an entire year work was conducted on The Garbage Man in secret. Yukich and Gibson would clandestinely edit the footage on off limits equipment, having to dump their cuts off the system every morning and redo all their work every night to hide their activities. All notes, production notes, original scripts, all copies of their rough cut, all logs, and every scrap of the paper trail that could give them away was kept in Yukich's car trunk. In August of 1994 Fisher moved to Los Angeles to finalize work on The Garbage Man. The night Fisher arrived in town, The Garbage Man editor Bill Yukich was involved in a near fatal car wreck after a late night meeting with Fisher. Yukich was pulled from the flaming wreck minutes before the car exploded. An entire years worth of work burned- A ten minute rough cut, the shot list, the master cut list, all were incinerated along the roadside.
“ The Garbage Man creeps into your life like a cancer and makes you question the hidden lives of the people you think you know.”
-Doug Brunell, Underground Film
Following the dramatic setback it would take several years before Fisher would himself take control of the project and finish editing The Garbage Man on a home G4 Suite. Teaching himself to edit within months, Fisher completed a rough cut and scored the film with newfound collaborators Pinhole and Craig Adams. Complete with behind the scenes footage and new interviews with the principal players behind the movie, Fisher is now more than ready to take his monster on the Film Festival Circuit. With many years experience dealing with the media, including appearances on Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse Raphael, Larry King Live, CNN Headline News, Entertainment Tonight, E on OJ and many others - its sure to be more than entertaining.
“ Hart Fisher does it again with a visceral, unrelenting gut punch piece of cinema. GARBAGE MAN is a brutally honest portrayal of a type of killer unseen in modern cinema. This is the real deal and a film you won't soon forget!”
-Thom Carnell/Carpe Noctem
“ Awesome.”
- Seth, ohthehorror.com
For an entire year work was conducted on The Garbage Man in secret. Yukich and Gibson would clandestinely edit the footage on off limits equipment, having to dump their cuts off the system every morning and redo all their work every night to hide their activities. All notes, production notes, original scripts, all copies of their rough cut, all logs, and every scrap of the paper trail that could give them away was kept in Yukich's car trunk. In August of 1994 Fisher moved to Los Angeles to finalize work on The Garbage Man. The night Fisher arrived in town, The Garbage Man editor Bill Yukich was involved in a near fatal car wreck after a late night meeting with Fisher. Yukich was pulled from the flaming wreck minutes before the car exploded. An entire years worth of work burned- A ten minute rough cut, the shot list, the master cut list, all were incinerated along the roadside.
“ The Garbage Man creeps into your life like a cancer and makes you question the hidden lives of the people you think you know.”
-Doug Brunell, Underground Film
Following the dramatic setback it would take several years before Fisher would himself take control of the project and finish editing The Garbage Man on a home G4 Suite. Teaching himself to edit within months, Fisher completed a rough cut and scored the film with newfound collaborators Pinhole and Craig Adams. Complete with behind the scenes footage and new interviews with the principal players behind the movie, Fisher is now more than ready to take his monster on the Film Festival Circuit. With many years experience dealing with the media, including appearances on Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse Raphael, Larry King Live, CNN Headline News, Entertainment Tonight, E on OJ and many others - its sure to be more than entertaining.
“ Hart Fisher does it again with a visceral, unrelenting gut punch piece of cinema. GARBAGE MAN is a brutally honest portrayal of a type of killer unseen in modern cinema. This is the real deal and a film you won't soon forget!”
-Thom Carnell/Carpe Noctem
“ Awesome.”
- Seth, ohthehorror.com
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