Ken Michelman

The Independent -- A notorious B-movie director tries for a comeback by seeking out the film rights to the life story of a serial killer who wants his biography film to be a musical.

Morty and Paloma try to find the money to help Morty complete his latest work, the socially conscious semi-erotic thriller, Ms. Kevorkian.

A nightmare come to life, Adam "The Spiker" Brandis is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the supernatural. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by The Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.

The Independent is the story of one man's struggle for a little bit of recognition. It's filled with interviews from Morty's celebrity friends, clips from his thirty years of films, and a cinema verite camera which follows Morty and Paloma as they try to find the money to help him complete his latest work, the socially conscious semi-erotic thriller, Ms. Kevorkian. The Independent is filled with great performances, and finds its way into your hands as the result of the settling of a lawsuit with a now-defunct, terrible little independent film distributor, the ugly details of which we are contractually unable to revisit here. Enjoy!