Nightmare Asylum: What other movies have you Directed or Written?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: I recently released a feature film called “When Black Birds Fly”. I’ve also made a few shorts called “Recluse”, “Affection” and a music video for Butchers Harem called “Clinical Sodomy”
Nightmare Asylum: What other kind of work have you done in the Movie Business?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: I’ve done voices in my friend M dot Strange’s films “Heart-string Marionette” & “I am Nightmare”, co-scored “American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts & Gore”, co-produced a documentary directed by Victor Bonacore about underground filmmaker Jim Vanbebber entitled “Diary of a Deadbeat”, and a bunch of little other jobs here and there. I mostly try to stick to making my own bullshit though, unless its people I really like, or they manage to lie to me convincingly enough to trick me!
Nightmare Asylum: What was your whole thought before the movie and how did you come up with such a storyline such as this?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: Tainted Milk was originally just supposed to be a parody of Lassie that I mostly found funny, but every time I showed it to people they would typically get really offended or upset. So that inspired me to take the next chapter, Liquid Memories, a little more seriously. Once it was complete I caught the attention of Unearthed Films who told me to come up with a third chapter and to make it more disturbing than the first two and they would release it as a feature film on their label. I decided to tackle the seedy evil underworld of child pornography, partially due to the way people reacted to the… uuuhhh… “climax” in Tainted Milk, and partially because it was (and still is…) constantly in the news about someone in a position of power getting busted with it, and I realized no one had really ever made a movie about it. I was also really into conspiracy theories at the time and had just finished a long obsession with the ritual abuse claims of the Christian underground in the late 80s and early 90s. They basically claimed that there was an underground network of satanic pedophiles who were positioning themselves into power in order to systematically ritualistically abuse children on a global scale. They also claimed all the cartoons and heavy metal music were just secret subliminally coded messages designed to lure children into these satanic pedophile dens.
Nightmare Asylum: What was the whole process of the movie making like? Was it all smoothly as you thought it was going to be?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: Before I made Tainted Milk I had never animated anything before, I used it mainly as an excuse to teach myself how to use the programs. There were a lot of technical hurdles I had to overcome, and given the rather meager equipment and knowledge I had at the time, I’m kind of surprised it got done at all!
Nightmare Asylum: What were you’re thoughts about how this movie would impact the viewers and what reaction were you expecting?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: I never really thought any one would see them honestly. I was really just trying to learn how to animate stuff so I could figure out how to make a cool live-action-animation-hybrid type film, and then when/If I ever did it, I could include the shorts on the DVD as an extra or something. I especially never thought Tainted Milk would ever in million years offend people, but I guess I was wrong!
Nightmare Asylum: What reaction were you trying to give you’re viewers?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: Erectile dysfunction
Nightmare Asylum: What was the whole process like to make this type of Animated movie?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: It’s like waking up to someone kicking you in the nuts every day and when you’re jolted awake they scream in your face that you suck, everything you animated the day before was shit and it crashed while rendering anyway because you just had to go to sleep instead of working!! Then you look in the mirror and cry for a little bit.
Nightmare Asylum: Why did you put the scenes you did in this movie?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: Because there’s something wrong with me?
Nightmare Asylum: What was the idea of Labby murdering Tommy’s Parents?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: Ritualistic human sacrifice for the greater good of evil forces
Nightmare Asylum: What was the idea of Tommy losing his virginity to Labby the ‘Devil Dog’?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: If you read anything about demonic possession or someone losing/selling their soul, it’s almost always through some sort of sexual deviancy. The purpose of that scene was not supposed to be related to child molestation in any way, shape or form, it was supposed to be about Tommy having to willingly give a piece of his soul over to Labby, while unknowingly selling his soul. The theme was really supposed to be about growing up and learning how the world really works and all that, just told in a really weird way.
Nightmare Asylum: Overall give us your reasons, thoughts and everything else in between why you did this movie? Obviously if this had of been with real people it would have been banned, do you agree?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: I don’t think it would be banned, there is far more graphically things done in other films. I think people forget that my film doesn’t actually show anything sexually graphic, it’s almost entirely implied and mostly happens off screen. But the mood, atmosphere and subject matter are so off putting that people fill in the blanks in their own minds, and then blame me! The most graphic scene is the 10 seconds of Tommy fucking Labby, and it’s so horribly animated and retarded that I wouldn’t even call it graphic. There is a scene in a South Park episode where all the boys take turns jerking off their dog until cum shoots out, and that is on TV! So if that’s legal to broadcast, then I can’t see how my stupid movie isn’t
Nightmare Asylum: Is there a sequel to this movie?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: I have ideas for two different sequels, one would be another movie and the other would be more of a TV series type structure, haven’t decided which would be better but neither is a priority right now.
Nightmare Asylum: Is there anything else you would like to add to this interview?
Jimmy ScreamerClauz: I farted 3 times during this interview, but the third one was silent so I don’t think it counts.
