Wrestling With Ghosts Wins 2020 Award

Wrestling With Ghosts Wins 2020 Award!

As Big N Funky Productions finishes up the movie "The Hike" and gets ready to start filming their next comedy/horror movie: "WJHC AM", we were informed that we won an end of the year award at ASY TV. Big N Funky Productions won the "Biggest and Funkiest" award for 2020 for their show Wrestling With Ghosts. We had three produced episodes in the coronavirus afflicted 2020, including the season three debut featuring new team member Kandi Thompson and Travis Graves, as well. That episode was spent looking for Spearfinger, which was the legend behind their movie, "The Hike". Big Luke's acceptance speech in this hour long awards show is the funniest acceptance speech I have ever seen. Our segment starts around 28:05

Here's the link to the awards show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0IZp9VcZRypxkUdWtAYJIfPFZf8uvNmboVyZ5b5RrmGIAj3oAdtV-LuRg&v=xitRTHA0IWc&feature=youtu.be

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31 Days of a Big N Funky Christmas

 31 Days of a Big N Funky Christmas

Every day this month, as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and the end of this crappy year, we are featuring an old Big N Funky favorite each day: Movie trailers, skits, show intros, segments, phone pranks, and maybe even episodes of some of our work. Would you like to see the daily selection? It's on the Big N Funky Productions Facebook page! Click the link below and subscribe to the page AND our Youtube channel!!! We are very close to being monetized!!!

You better hurry! Today's selection is about the funkiest part of the human body: The perineum!!! 

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The Hike Jive is All The Way Live

Critic's Rave Trailer

The critics are raving about the horror/ comedy movie we made called "The Hike". Don't believe me? Well, check this jive out! #thehike2020 #thehikemovie #thehike #BigNFunkyProductions #wjhcam

 

The Hike Test Screening!!!

"The Hike" Review 

by Nerdy Laser Podcast's Matt Henry

The Hike was fantastic and the whole crew should be proud of it! Great Comedy/Action/Horror Film. With shades of the Evil Dead and Deliverance sprinkled in with a little bit of They Live and Clerks this local gem hits the funny bone, and a whole lot of other bones also. The Chemistry with the two leads ( Vinnie Vineyard & Kandi Thompson ) completely caught me off guard, I got lost in the movie and did not realize that this was the same Vinnie I knew, it completely suspended my disbelief. It was like meeting a old friend for the first time.

Kandi twisted your expectations of what a leading lady is. This is not your typical damsel in distress female character. She is part of the story in multiple ways, and most of the time portrays a stronger version of a female character in a horror film.

Luke Was intelligently shot to look like even more of a Giant then he was. However, He was not portrayed as a typical lumbering strong man with a axe to grind. Instead what we got was a more intelligent portrayal of that kind of character. I don’t want to give too much away, but plot wise his reasoning and motivation was my favorite twist in this little genre mash up.

Travis surprised me the most, multiple scenes that he delivery knocked me for a loop. Another instance where I forgot that this was the Travis that I’ve known and grown up with, instead he became this character in this movie.

The beauty of this was the comedy. The first 30 minutes of this movie ( And little moments sprinkled throughout ) Were legitimately laugh out loud funny. This makes all the characters so relatable and likable. I truly underestimated the talent that this little click of friends has. You guys keep doing what your doing, because there’s an audience out there waiting to discover it.

Also have to quickly mention the soundtrack and score. Every piece of music was fantastic! Multiple songs in this movie had me bobbing my head. And the score at times was extremely brooding as we Bobbed and weaved through the great Smoky Mountains national Park the music set the tone.

Not a lot of gore, but when we did see it it was bursting with bright reds That stood out amongst the drained color pallet of the film. It mirrors the drained color palette of the National park under the canopy of trees. Never has such a large space felt so claustrophobic and Drury. This is partly due to the handheld nature of the film but also by design.

-Matt Henry

(10/16/2020)

 What a Fun Night!!!

From Big Luke Walker's Facebook page

in regards to the "Halloween at Halls" Test Screening:

I'm sure bigger things have happened in my life. Positive of it. I cant think of one of them right now. We made a movie. We sat in a theater and watched it. 60 people(max capacity because of covid)... well, they... laughed. A lot. And when "things got real" you could feel it in the room. I was worried people wouldn't "get it". They got it. In my decades of being a performer, I am always suspicious of the verbal review "that was great". The verbal review i got repeatedly was, "I was entertained the whole movie". That is what I needed to hear. Thats what we set out to do. Tell a compelling, funny, and original story with heart, soul, and keep it constantly moving. "I was entertained" is the exact response to all of that. I cant shake the memories of last night. People showed up that I didn't expect. People I did expect warmed my heart. This movie will not end here. Our future is now set to make more movies. Distributors will get this to more eyes. I said yesterday this is a "make it or break it" moment for us and it was. To take a line from a music video we made for Fish Fisher

... "I think we're gonna make it!!!!!"

News about the Hike and the October Event!

 Come Watch "THE HIKE" With Us!!!

Friday, October 16, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT

Halloween at Halls

You thought Halloween was over....think again! Krossfire Media, The Nerdy Laser Podcast, & Big & Funky Productions presents Halloween at halls! Taking place in Knoxville TN on 3800 Neal Drive. Be there as we present the test screening of the new film The Hike. Followed by a live Q & A podcast with cast and crew hosted by Issac & Richard from The Nerdy Laser Podcast! Then we cap off the night with Child’s Play part 2! That’s right, everyone’s favorite horror villain returns to the big screen! Other activities include Trivia, Costume Contest, free giveaways, and much more! It’s not just movies... it’s an event!

48–68°F Mostly Sunny

Halls Cinema

Tickets

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4729863

Big N Funky in Tha' News!!!

In the next 2 weeks, Big N Funky Productions will be in the Volunteer Times, the Mountain Press, the Smoky Mountain Press, The Morgan County Times, The Mountaineer, The Daily Times and many more publications, radio shows, podcasts, and television interviews. When we get an online link, we will attach to to the right over there. 

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New Theatrical Trailer Tonight!

 NEW TRAILER TONIGHT, FELLOW HIKERS!

About 3 weeks ago we showed you a little clip of Kandi Thompson's character fumbling around a dark cave, apparently in peril. Between all of our social media platforms, we got thousands of views within the first day. That's pretty good for our ghetto azzes. NOW, wheeze are releasing our official Theatrical Trailer TONIGHT at 8PM EST. Right after our 7PM EST podcast (link located to the right of this article... or just subscribe to our Youtube page, already) you can see TONS of images from the movie... pieced together in cinematic real life picture-show stylez. 

We are also doing a TEST SCREENING on October 16th!!! At this Test Screening, the audience will decide the ending of the movie between multiple endings!!!  

"You thought Halloween was over....think again! Krossfire Media, The Nerdy Laser Podcast, & Big & Funky Productions presents Halloween at halls! Taking place in Knoxville TN on 3800 Neal Drive. Be there as we present the test screening of the new film The Hike. Followed by a live Q & A podcast with cast and crew hosted by Issac & Richard from The Nerdy Laser Podcast! Then we cap off the night with Child’s Play part 2! That’s right, everyone’s favorite horror villain returns to the big screen! Other activities include Trivia, Costume Contest, free giveaways, and much more! It’s not just movies... it’s an event!"

Tickets MUST be purchased online:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4729863