El Duce

A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics in the 1980s and ‘90s—but was their use of shock meant to propagate hate or confront it?

After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.

The Mentors short "Fuck Movie" where El Duce plays a couch test caster up to typical Mentors practice of "peaceful rape" as well as showing where inspirations for "Goin' Thru Your Purse", "Sleep Bandits" & "On The Rag" come from. The Mentors short "Get Up & Die" about killing New Wavers and Glam Rockers. The Mentors on Hot Seat with Wally George. Conversation with El Duce & The Mentors.

As next in line to take over his father's law firm, Ohio rich kid Joey's life is all planned out. But a chance encounter with a gorgeous, free-spirited female rock drummer inspires Joey to chuck his plans and move to Los Angeles, where he hooks up with an all-girl rock band and learns the ins and outs of the L.A. music underground.

Idiots Taylor Dupp and Murphy Wegg flee their humdrum existence in Dayton, Ohio for the glamour of Hollywood. Murphy turns his complete lack of talent into a career as a television producer ("The Pac-Man Show"), while Taylor is unjustly accused of murder.

A Karl Hinz feature length film starring punk celebrities Jennifer Blowdryer , J. Sats Beret (The Lewd) , El Duce (Mentors) , Nicky Beat (Weirdos) , Meri St. Mary (Housecoat Project) , Merrill Ward (SWA) , Janet Cunningham (C.A.S.H.) , Modi Frank and many more in a mystery thriller juxtaposed alongside a satirical look at what can happen when the desire to be famous at any cost is coupled with those willing to exploit for a profit.

A filmmaker tries to finish editing a movie about all-girl rock band Runaways.

A defense contractor who somehow becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. In his solitude, he traces the history of U.S. civilization in the 20th century through musical numbers.