This historic document comes from 1995 and in many ways is the first step I took towards developing my own unique brand of critical thinking and cinema-making. In years to come this will filter from the fringes of the underground and become the norm. At that point, I will reinvent myself, bacuase to become the norm is to die. Viva le change!!!!
STAND UP WHEN YOU WATCH THE HEXMAN!!!!!!
This teaser trailer was fine tuned over a period of months from June 09 through Jan 2010. I shaved 38 frames off it in various places and it is so much tighter for the cuts.
Ten years after I start making BMTHOHTR this was the slate for the last set-up: a shot of a motionless Harvey lying on the floor. This was trully a momentus moment in the history of Kinosupremo.
See them use both the carrot and the stick…
The cover for the Hex-o-Gnomes debut album. We had 500 pressed and they’re something of a collectors item so if you’re interested in getting your hands on one drop me a line. The sticker for the film is a new addition.
Clear those throats. Tune those guitars. And sing, brothers, SING!!!!
An awsome early demo of the King Of Killers track by the Hex-o-Gnomes. Roof Rat Ralf (so called because he fitted tv aerials) sings the lead vocal here as I had tonsilitis. His voice isn’t bad for a bass-player but the final track sounds much much better with me singing it. That’s Mike the Metrognome on percussion and cymbals, Funkmaster Frank on organ and me doing the techno-chops on the chorus - which were the only thing to make it from this version to the final one you hear in the movie. And you’ll hear Old Yeller III moaning on in the background.
Get yourself some Hexual Healing
This is the first big scene in BMTHOHTR. Everything has been building up to this moment on a real slooooooooo burn. Now I break one of my Ted Commandments here (No 3) but the dialogue is SO good I just couldn’t cut it. Besides, nobody has spoke up until this point in the film and we’re almost at the hundred minute mark.
The stuff with the wooden leg is actually based on a story my Uncle Sandy told me about a woman he met after WWII. She used to shave one and sand the other. That kind of stuff is gold to a writer cos you couldn’t make it up.
Here’s an early draft of the final scene where the old fella meets his maker. This is from one of the shorter drafts - there was one that ran to over 800 pages but it just seemed a little on the slow side. I wrote the part of the nurse for my first love Kim Wilde but her agent said she was too busy with her gardening show. Shame, she’d have looked good in that costume.
This poster has been so influental to me. I have copy hanging over my bed squeezed between pictures of my dear departed mother and Kim Wilde. I used Kids In America in the bar scene when Hex finally confronts the Rabbit - BLAM! - what a great choice of music. Sometimes I suprise myself by how inspired my choices are.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. When I saw Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia I put childish ways behind me.
