Hasil Adkins

Movies6

• Movie5.9

  Drama

  Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

  The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

  2004 · 163 votes

• Movie3.7

  ComedyHorror

  Red Toole is an average good-hearted serial killer who enjoys killing hippies almost as much as he loves his wife Violet. But when Violet is kidnapped Toole sets out to reclaim the woman he loves, with unusual and often hilarious results.

  Die You Zombie Bastards!

  2005 · 16 votes

• Movie6.7

  DocumentaryMusic

  Short subject documentary by Julien Nitzberg about the legendary "psychobilly" musician and infamous wild man Hasil Adkins. Filming takes place in Adkins' own yard, his shack, and at various concerts. Adkins is notable for helping create an entirely new form of rock/rockabilly/country fusion, which he plays entirely by himself (with a guitar and drums simultaneously).

  Hasil Adkins: The Wild World of Hasil Adkins

  1993 · 3 votes

• Movie5.9

  Documentary

  R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America. Coleman holds nothing back, telling us of a world wracked with tumorous cities, perversion, divorce, violence, atomic bombs, and a human race destroying itself simply because we are born.

  R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman

  1997 · 9 votes

• Movie8.0

  Documentary

  This prequel to the cult hit "Die You Zombie Bastards!" ties the original Red's Breakfast short films together with a documentary featuring director Caleb Emerson and stars Tim Gerstmar, Pippi Zornoza and Kevin Umbricht.

  The Red's Breakfast Experience

  2001 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Documentary

  Twist and stomp through the kooky world of One-Man-Bands! See what wows Bowie, tunes in Beck, and inspires the Cramps – Let Me Be Your Band is a heart-pumping plunge off a curvy West Virginian highway that leads straight to the infamous One-Man-Rockabilly-Wild-Man, Hasil Adkins, and other like-minded innovator misfits! From Bob Log III, former bus driver turned punk infused Delta Blues band, to Washboard Hank performing on his kitchen sink tuba, all of the One-Man-Bands documented here are undoubtedly the best at what they do, for the simple reason that they are the only ones who can do what they do! Come hear the forbidden rhythms of the Lonesome Organist, Mayor McCa, and the Mysterious Asthmatic Avenger. Witness Eric Royer’s self-built 5-piece bluegrass band and the King Louie hurricane of sound! You’ve got to see it to believe it!

  Let Me Be Your Band

  2003 · 1 votes