crimepays

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Canoga Park, CA

Title:

Director, Editor, Producer

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  Overview

• Bio

  "Even surrounded by coffins, bats, a life-sized Frankenstein statue and legendary fright-meister artist Bernie Wrightson, Fisher's the scariest thing in the room." Wizard Magazine:The Guide To Comics

  There is precious little that outlaw filmmaker Hart D. Fisher hasn't accomplished. He is a successful horror author, a critically acclaimed poet (Poems for the Dead), a savage spoken word performer and a sharp new voice now lending his unique talents to the world of music videos, having directed cutting edge videos for international death metal legends Obituary and kings of black metal Dark Funeral. His first feature, The Garbage Man, has been an official selection of film festivals around the world and garnered the creator rave reviews, including praise from the likes of FANGORIA's Tony Timpone and Rue Morgue Magazine. Recently, Mr. Fisher has tackled what some would have believed impossible: Co-producing and editing the critically acclaimed horror/thriller The Bunker. Why is that special? The Bunker is the first feature film written and directed by a blind director, Joseph M. Monks, but doing the unexpected is nothing new for Fisher, who has had projects in development at Dreamworks Pictures, Dimension Films and The Shooting Gallery, among others. With a long and controversial career which began in comic books, where Fisher discovered such talents as Gerard Way (lead singer for the chart-topping rock band My Chemical Romance); John Cassaday (Captain America) and political essayist Stephen Elliot (a regular contributor for the San Francisco Chronicle, award-winning novelist and child protection advocate) among others, Fisher carved out a fierce reputation and was dubbed 'The Most Dangerous Man in Comics.' (Hero Illustrated, 1994.)

  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 documentary, Entertainment Tonight, Larry King Live, The Jerry Springer Show, The Bertice Berry Show, CNN Headline News, A&E's Biography, and in magazines such as Time, Tattoo Savage, Hero Illustrated, People, The Comics Journal, the non-fiction best seller The A-Z Guide to Serial Killers and many more. Fisher began his art career as the publisher behind Boneyard Press, a ferociously independent publishing house that has garnered coverage all over the world, in Japan (Words), Germany (Ego Magazine), England (The Sun) and brought the mass media (as well as protest marchers) to his door thanks to books such as Jeffrey Dahmer: An Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer, OJ's Big Bust Out, Rush Limbaugh Must Die, Dark Angel and Howard Stern Vs. Rush Limbaugh. Fisher's two collections of poetry, (Poems for the Dead & Still Dead) have been lauded in Wicked Mystic, Carpe Noctem, and Dark's Art Parlor to name but a few. His work has been called relentless and heart wrenching. " Hart has proven he has talent and there is a market out there for queasy, uneasy, in-yo'-face, material." --Tattoo Savage

  Twice, Hero Illustrated placed Mr. Fisher in their 100 Most Important People In The Comics Industry list, and rock star Glenn Danzig hired Fisher to be the managing editor for his publishing company, Verotik. Fisher's story for Verotika #4, "A Taste of Cherry" has the notorious distinction of being banned in Oklahoma on the grounds that it was obscene material and is banned in that state to this day. Never one to shy away from outrageous showmanship, Fisher has faked his own death, spit in the eye of industry goliath Marvel Comics (at the largest comic convention in America Fisher printed up hundreds of black t-shirts proclaiming that "Marvel Can Suck My Cock"-- The shirts sold out instantly and dogged the larger comics publisher at comics conventions for years after) and has proven he has a gift for stirring up controversy that sells his products by the truckload. In addition to co-producing and editing The Bunker, writing and directing the anthology film series Flowers on the Razorwire, running his post production house Crime Pays Inc. and supervising the translation of Poems For The Dead into Portuguese (being handled by Moonspell front man Fernando Riberio), Fisher has been a featured speaker at the Festival of Fantasy & Terror in Mexico City, where he was among a group of writers featured in a series of college lectures held in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Mr. Fisher is currently preparing for his screen acting debut in the horror serial "...In The Next Room" to begin shooting April 2008.

  More about Mr. Fisher and his work can be found at:

  www.crimepaysinc.com www.boneyardpress.net www.youtube.com/crimepayshart

• Interests and Activities

  Mixed Martial Arts (20 years of training and counting), painting, spoken word, media manipulation, living life and laughing hard.

• Favorite Movies

  Thief, To Live and Die In LA, Seven, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, The Thing (JCarpenter), Get Carter (original), Slap Shot

• Favorite Books

  Ghost, Bad Guys, The Shinning,