"Back in the beginning of 2007 there came together three unholy forces of horror and dark music to create one of the coolest adult horror films no one's ever seen. The project was a walking abortion from the start with a pair of real morons at the helm of the film. The worst part of the story is that the original director of the film pulled a massive rip off before fleeing Los Angeles. He enlisted some people in the adult industry to help him create a free weekly paper, took in thousands of dollars in ad monies for the paper, then skipped town with the money and didnt publish the paper. Luckily the producer of the film, Matt The Lord Zane, allowed me to have all of the movie footage to pull from the wreckage of that mess to use in this music video for the guys in Dark Funeral.

I hit it off with the guys in Dark Funeral backstage at the Key Club in LA during the shooting of the video. They were cool fucking dudes who were deadly serious about their satanic music and they put on one helluva fucking show. I dig Dark Funeral's music and their guts, so when I got the go ahead to take over the film and the music video from Mr. Zane I dropped the hammer down and went for it big time. I did the movie cuz they paid me too. I did the video because I fucking wanted to. I did it for the band, for the fans and for the biggest outlaw in adult films, Rob Black.

I premiered the video on the www.boneyardpress.net site for Halloween of 07 and then put it up on my youtube channel (www.youtube.com/crimepayshart) where it promptly became my most popular clip and a video that helped me land multiple directing and editing jobs. Hell, the video was so popular it was instrumental in landing Dark Funeral a rare slot on youtubes push list for their new video My Funeral. I was happy that the guys had a major corporation pushing their video, unfortunately youtube decided my video was drawing heat away from their ad drive. After three years and almost 100,000 plays youtube decided to ban my video for Attera Totus Sanctus.

Thanks to the fine folks at youtube that video is now exclusively online here at AmericanHorrors.com.

-Hart D. Fisher

Obituary
"Evil Ways"

I've been directing music videos for indie bands around Los Angeles for the last couple of years, but in 2007 I up'd my game by doing first the Dark Funeral video for Club Satan, then following it up with this dirty little piece of work with Obituary. I directed this music video in Tampa Florida for one of the meanest godfathers of death metal, motherfuckin' Obituary. Me and my guys jetted into Tampa last minute like a mercenary crew doing behind the lines suicide missions. Understaffed, underfunded, but full of piss and battery acid, we made sure to kill and kill again.

We shot in a fantastic dive bar outside of a trailer park called Dan's Five Quarters Bar. We shot in Obituary's rehearsal space, and to top it all off we shot at a legendary goth club called The Castle.

The folks at the bar and at The Castle were super cool, worked hard to let us do our video our way, major thanks to them both and their staff. We had one camera foul, one camera man overindulge on set, and I shouted myself horse the last night of shooting. It was a blast.

The Cock Diesel
"Victim"

I shot this music video in my garage in Los Angeles. This was a crazy one day shoot I did on a whim after running into the band at a Gent Magazine sex party at the 2007 Adult Video Expo in Vegas. I hung out with the band all night, I came up with the video, a month later we shot it. Note that during the shoot I was on fire, the lead singer had his hair catch fire, I broke a knuckle in my right hand... it was a nutty shoot, but we had a blast. These guys make great music and are fun people to hang out with. It's good to be the king!

The Cock Diesel
Victim - Outtakes

When I was at the Adult Video Expo in January of '07, I was partying with Shane Bugbee while he was putting together Club Satan (The most controversial adult film in the last ten years, made for Rob Black and his crew at Extreme Associates produced by rock devil god Matt Zane). We were at the Gent Magazine sex party (yes, a genuine seventies style sex party) when I bumped into Eric (lead singer) and Precious Cox (the lovely half of the duo) in the bathroom. We got to taking, then took the party back to our suite at the The Luxor and I came up with the idea for this video.The weekend before I left for Japan to pick up my wife (she had been there 6 months battling it out with life threatening cancer, better health care in Japan, in America my wife would have been dead) I shot this quick, down and dirty music video for the band Cock Diesel, in my garage. I had one camera man, one make up girl, a buddy helped for a few hours and that was it for crew. It was a crazy little shoot, but we had a blast.

The Tattooed Millionaires Live at the
Whiskey-A-Go-Go...

Here's a little clip from our first episode of American Horrors in which we aired The Tattooed Millionaires concert at the world famous Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Johnny's a real talent, his band rocks, I only wish I'd been at this show.

Bon Apetite!

I directed this music video for the Tattooed Millionaires guys in the summer of 2005 and we had a blast. Hot Chicks, Great Tunes, the Tap Out fight team, a great pool and free beer, a perfect day. By the end of the day I was so sunburned I looked like a viking redskin...

- Hart D. Fisher

Tattooed Millionaires Announce Fall Concert Series The Power Of Rock and Roll Tour Rolls On!

Infamous Hollywood rock and roll band Tattooed Millionaires are proud to announce a six date concert series featuring very special guests Circus Asylum. Circus Asylum are Battle Creek Michigan's hometown heroes and one of the rising stars of the Motor City states' rock music scene. This "Power of Rock" concert series kicks off November 18th and runs through November 27th with shows in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas.

Get in on the action here:

11.18.09     Aqua Lounge - Beverly Hills, CA
11.19.09     The Cat Club - West Hollywood, CA
11.20.09     Bunkhouse - Las Vegas, NV
11.23.09     Whisky-A-Go-Go - West Hollywood, CA
11.25.09     Dragonfly - Hollywood, CA
11.27.09     LaBrie’s - Glendale, CA

For more information, or if you would like to interview the bands or review the shows, please contact:
tattooed_millionaires@yahoo.comwww.myspace.com/tattooedmillionaires

AMERICAN HORRORS AND HERD THE HUMANS WANTS YOU!

LOS ANGELES, CA- On Sunday evening October 4th, Hart D. Fisher and American Horrors will be shooting a music video for the song Hollow by Herd The Humans, staring Rad Girls Ms. Clementine and VH1s Jason Heat. Costumed Extras are wanted for the Halloween party segment shooting Sunday evening in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles California.

"Our music is an expression of emotions and thoughts. We try to paint pictures with the music as well as the lyrics. Said Herd The Humans lead singer, Scott Wells. We tell people when listening for the first time to close their eyes and listen. To really take it in. Our goal is to share our musical paintings with the world."

Why did we choose Hart Fisher? Mr. Wells chuckles, Well, when he was mentioned by a very famous musician in one of the most famous bands in the world (Megadeth) and after reviewing his work & speaking with him, I realized that we had found the perfect fit.

Herd The Humans Hollow will make its broadcast premier, along with a making of featurette, on American Horrors as part of its series programming. Hart D. Fisher is the writer/director of the critically acclaimed feature film, The Garbage Man, and the on camera host of American Horrors, a broadcast television show syndicated through out Europe and Scandinavia by The Global Broadcasting Company.
For more about Herd the Humans go to:
www.herdthehumans.com
http://www.myspace.com/aherdofhumans

The Making of Hollow

Herd the Humans making of "Hollow" pt. 2

Welcome to part 2 of our making of the video segment for Herd the Humans "Hollow" music video. On Sunday October 4th Film Maker Hart D. Fisher took his crew to the San Fernando Valley to shoot the music video "Hollow" for Herd the Humans. We had a great group of folks who came together to make this music video happen, thanks to all the extras who stuck around to the chilly end. Special thanks goes out to Billie and her father Patrick for being such troopers. Billie was awesome as "creeping death." Everyone laughed, they cried, and drank a whole lotta beer...

The Shift "My Love Entwined in Hell"

This is s a great video I did with Corey Soria, a talented musician and upcoming film maven that I've been working with for the last year. He's done work for Glenn Danzig, Gorgeous Frankenstein, and so much more. The band is a great piece of work from the OC and I love their disc. Check out more of The Shift at :http://www.myspace.com/entertheshift,
if you're an old school Misfits fan or a Danzig fan, you'll love this stuff. I was very a happy to be a part of this group effort video shot all over LA, with multiple cameras, a load of cool people joined in on this project.

"Horror Amour : An Interview With Mige from HIM"

by Amanda Rebholz

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Most people who follow the internationally-acclaimed rock band HIM recognize its handsome frontman Ville Valo before anyone else in the band; with his smoldering good looks and trademark voice, Ville is the totem of the band and the one most often sought out for interviews and photo shoots. However, the rest of his backup band are just as talented and charismatic, and one member in particular has always been my favorite. Mige Amour, the bassist for HIM, is a heavyset man with an unruly beard, long hair, and piercing blue eyes. He is also a lifelong horror fan who has referenced his love many times in various interviews, a fact that led to me arranging to interview Mige specifically about this interest when he came through Dallas, Texas on February 2 with side-project band Daniel Lioneye as part of the "Creatures from the Black Abyss" tour with Cradle of Filth and fellow Finnish rockers Turisas.

Once we were settled in the dressing room, the usually-quiet Mige opened up immediately about his appreciation for horror films, where he thinks the genre's headed, and his own memories of growing up with the love.

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Amanda Rebholz: Can you talk a little bit about what it was like to grow up in Finland, what the horror scene was like over there when you were a child?

Mige Amour: When I was a kid Finland was sort of a fascist country when it came to censorship. Horror films would be cut into pieces, and they might cut thirty minutes of the goriest parts out of a two-hour movie. So to get really cool horror films, you'd have to get them from the UK or somewhere. It was very hard to come by for us, so all of the copies of horror films that were around were like VHS copies of a copy of a copy. They were really bad quality, but that was sort of the thing. It defined the scene for us. Everyone was swapping bootlegs back and forth, trading, making bootlegs themselves from VCR to VCR. It was pretty underground and secret.

AR: Do you remember the first horror film that really made an impact on you?

MA: It's hard to say the first, but the old "Demons", you know, the first two of those really stand out. They are classics now but I remember seeing them with my friends, in a boiler room or basement or something. I loved it. I got a copy and ran to my friends with it, it was very nice. I probably saw "The Exorcist" around then too because that was the right time, but that was one that my buddies and I very much went through a lot of trouble to get a copy of. We had to beg and borrow to get that one. But then we got it and it was awesome, so, that was very good for us.

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AR: Do you have a favorite type of horror movie?

MA: I am very old-school, I don't like the newer films and what's happening now. I like a certain kitsch when it comes to it, like the old slashers from the 80s. There are some very good slashers coming out now, you know, things like "Dog Soldiers", which is one of my favorite films ever, but for the most part now it is very different. The whole attitude is different than it was back then.

AR: There's so much going on with CGI nowadays.

MA: Exactly, yeah. I miss the practical effects, the work that went into things. It was great to see all of the heart in it, the craftsmanship. It's a whole niche thing now of computer guys who are not into it the way the hands-on people were.

AR: We're seeing a trend here in America that's just starting out, where studios are beginning to screen unrated horror films that are completely uncut to see how the audiences react. One of them was "I Spit on Your Grave", another was "Hatchet 2"... do you think anything like that would ever happen in Finland?

MA: Well, the horror audience is so small and so underground over there... it is a very small country, it's probably a similar ratio of horror fans to regular people as here but the country just has so few people in it that it wouldn't really happen. We do have something sort of like that, it's called "Night Visions" and an old movie theater will play horror movies at midnight. They play all kinds of good stuff, all horror movies from different kinds. They've had screening parties with the filmmakers and things. I haven't seen "Rare Exports" yet but I want to, I hear good things. There is an unusual horror film--- well, it's not really horror, it is but not specifically--- called "Sauna" that is very frightening, but aside from that I don't think there are really many Finnish horror films being made.

AR: Which do you think is more frightening, ghosts and the supernatural or serial killers and slashers?

MA: I don't think I'm really afraid of those... I'm more scared of something that could realistically happen. I don't fear the living. I don't think a serial killer would be what kills my father, you know? I fear things like that, things we can't control or help. Things we can't stop. It's more natural, and that's very frightening. General mortality.

AR: Out of the people you are friends with, if you were in a horror movie would you survive?

MA: I'm totally a goner, are you kidding? I'm the annoying fat guy, I'm the first one dead.

AR: No, maybe not! You're very funny, they keep the funny ones.

MA: That's true, yeah. I love those kinds of characters. Like from "Shaun of the Dead". Perhaps that could be me.† He stayed until the end, didn't he?

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AR: He did. You'd absolutely survive for awhile, anyway. So do you have a favorite horror icon?

MA: Oh, absolutely Bruce Campbell. I'm a huge Bruce Campbell fan, he's my all-time favorite.† He's obviously very humorous as well, especially back in the day. "Evil Dead", his performances as Ash, were some of the best performances in horror I think. As a director, obviously, I love Argento. I like the same people that everyone likes, but I suppose that's for a reason. They're all so great.

AR: What're your thoughts on the new upsurgence of popularity in horror when it comes to vampires and things? Obviously the 'Twilight' franchise, while it's not really horror, has really put vampires and werewolves in the mainstream.

MA: Yes, I would never call "Twilight" a horror film at all... but I see what you mean. It did make them very mainstream. Vampires are not supposed to be that way though, are they? It is very odd and very... wrong, I think. I think it's great that younger people can get into it now though, that it's fashionable. They aren't my cup of tea but it's good that they are popular, and opening up doors for young people to become introduced to horror. It's becoming a bit cool to like horror. Growing up we were the outcasts, the outsiders, and now it is very normal to like these things. It's celebrated.

AR: It is. And with the popularity of shows like "True Blood" and "The Walking Dead", it's really reaching a much wider audience. It isn't a secretive thing anymore... people's mothers are watching these shows, you know? "The Walking Dead" was even nominated for some major awards, which is the first time a horror show's ever had that honor.

MA: I still haven't seen "The Walking Dead" but everything I've read is wonderful. I've read the synopses... what's terrible is I am not a comic person, so I've never read those, but I should. It's very cool that they were up for an award against a lot of normal shows, that makes me very happy. I am glad that horror is getting some recognition from the 'normal' people.

AR: What would you like to see out of the genre? After the phases of 'torture porn' and now this whole 'vampire' thing, what do you think should be the next big thing?

MA: Those old sci-fi movies would be great, wouldn't they? The ones with the creatures. They are so funny to chill out to, and they were just fun, they had no purpose. I like that.

AR: We do have those wonderful Syfy movies, about the mega-sharks and giant sea animals...

MA: Those are so great, yes. I don't see them often but they are so funny when we do catch them on. They are so hilarious to see with like-minded friends. Like our own Mystery Science Theater.

AR: How do you think that music and horror movies interact? Bands like The Misfits and Black Sabbath and even HIM to a degree use so much dark imagery and references to that culture, do you think that horror movies have influenced your music?

MA: I think there is so much crossover, yes. It's so many people who think the same way, like a club... they tend to like the same music as well as the same movies. The inspiration probably goes both ways, and so many musicians are in horror movies, and so many horror movies use dark music in them...

AR: Speaking of the crossover, Dani Filth's on tour with you... he made a horror film a few years ago called "Cradle of Fear" in which he plays a serial killer. If anyone ever offered you a role in a horror film, would you be interested?

MA: Sure, why not? I wouldn't like to do voice acting or anything like that, but it would be so fun to have the prosthetics, to wear those things.

AR: Have you ever done anything like that before?

MA: No. We did a Halloween gig once where I was in makeup, we had makeup artists to decorate us, but it was not very detailed. I would like to be in the very serious makeup, with the monster prosthetics and things.

AR: That would be really fun.

MA: The mask would let you be someone else, very scary.

AR: Yes. So what, in your opinion, makes the perfect horror film?

MA: Well, for me you have to have the balance between humor and horror. I like little moments of laughter in there because... it just makes the violence and things that much more scary. You are not expecting it, so you let your guards down and then when it happens it is so frightening and surprising all at once. I know not everyone likes that, but I really prefer it to be that way. When I watch a horror movie, I don't want to be uncomfortable, I don't want to have to think of so many things while I'm watching. I like to just laugh and then jump out of my seat, and then laugh again. But everyone is so different, which is why the horror industry is so much fun. There really is something for everyone, no matter what scares you there is something there which will get to you.

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Catch Mige Amour on tour with Daniel Lioneye and Cradle of Filth throughout the US right now, or check him out playing on the new Daniel Lioneye album "Vol II".