2025... the Year of tha' FUNK

 2024 has been a pretty quiet year for ole Big N Funky...

BUT 2025 WILL BE THE CRAZIEST YEAR YET.

Look at all of the movies and TV shows we are getting involved in:

Showdown in Secret City

Comedy/ Sci Fi/ Horror

The 4th chapter of the Smoky Mountain Chronicles. This horror/ comedy/ sci-fi movie is the most ambitious one yet. Four filmmakers are forced to comply with a movie executive's ridiculous demands to work with computer AI to create a blockbuster or else. 

Swipe Wrong (w/ ASY TV)

Comedy/ Fantasy

Dating in the digital age can be risky... Dating apps can sometimes hit, but more often than not, they miss. Adam gives online dating a chance, but instead of finding love, he finds himself on an unbelievably mystical and absolutely ridiculous journey that starts over and over again with every swipe to the right. 

Gig Workers (w/ Supermagicboy Productions)

Comedy/ Crime

Danny is a frustrated middle aged man, working as a delivery driver alongside a cavalcade of odd ball characters charged with the same task: deliver food and groceries to lazy people for pennies on the dollar. Danny's dreams have taken a back seat, and his fortunes continue to take turns for the worse, until one day, one of his customers opens his eyes to the possibility of a new life.

Vinnie's Vantastic Rock N Roll Redemption (w/ ASY TV)

Comedy/ Musical

Vinnie is back. After years of "Hugging it Out" on the stage with the band HUGS, the rest of the band meets their untimely ends looking for an artifact that could change Rock n Roll history. To preserve the legacy of HUGS, Vinnie hops back into the van and hits the road looking for redemption in this hilarious van life road trip sequel.

Wrestling With Ghosts 

New episodes of the funkiest ghost show in the lands!

Tabor City Jail, Greenback Castle, and the Ghost Town of Proctor

Weird Roads w/ Vinnie Vineyard

Vinnie Vineyard is also known as Funkmaster V, a pro wrestling, ghost hunting, bounty hunting, bass slapping filmmaker, who also runs a taxi cab company in the south. During all of these decades of adventures, Funkmaster has experienced his fair share of true crime stories, paranormal events, weird roadside attractions and disturbing sights and scenes. Get in loser. Let's go drive down some weird roads.

Spooky Travels w/ Kandi Thompson

A dark journey through history. The spookier, the creepier, the scarier, THE BETTER.

SUMMER OF FUNK... and COUNTRY...

 Sam Hatmaker's "ACCENT" Video

Those of us in Big N Funky Productions may be more known for funk and rock than country, but we were thrilled to get to do the video for the new song "ACCENT" by Sam Hatmaker. The video shoot ended up being a blast, even though we were surrounded by cow pies on all sides. It was like a poop-nam out there. This video also features Big Luke wearing Croc cowboy boots and our old pals Fish Fisher and Emi Sunshine. Oh yeah! One of the Big N Funky twins is in it, too: Nick Martineau (Vinnie's Vantastic, Camp Smokey) played drums on the vid. They are hoping this vid gets a rotation on CMT... So say a prayer, ya'll!!! #fishfisher #samhatmaker #accent #emisunshine

 New Wrestling With Ghosts Episodes

The kids in Wrestling With Ghosts are heading to the remote ghost town of Proctor this summer. This town is where Funkmaster V's brother, John Vineyard, ran into a paranormal entity multiple times while he was being chased by bears on a three day hike in the Great Smoky Mountains. This location's history and the lore of the area was the partial inspiration for the movie "The Hike". The team's dealings with Spearfinger were near there, as well. Check out this episode of "It Happened to Me" and await patiently for our next adventure... please.  

Also, a lost episode of WWG will be coming down the pike, where the gang investigated the Greenback Castle in Greenback Tennesseee. It is the most wild roadside attraction you will ever see, full of space predictions, recipes for spiritual food and science theories. 
#wrestlingwithghosts #proctor #greenbackcastle #paranormal #ghosts

Funkmaster V and Kandi Get New TV Shows

Brandon Bishop from ASY TV will be shooting some new TV shows for his streaming network featuring some Big N Funky pals. Funkmaster V's TV show will feature weird roads and wild stories that he has endured during his travels as a taxi driver in the South. Kandi's show will probably feature girly crap and lots of pink. The shows have not been named, but shooting will start for both in the late summer. More details to come!!! #asytv

Big N Funky is revving up to film their 4th feature late this year: Showdown in Secret City and will co-produce two films in 2025: Two comedies, one from ASY TV and one from Super Magic Boy Productions. Stay tuned! 

Big N Funky Gettin' Down

 WWG vs. The Historic Scott County Jail

The Ghost Biker, Miranda Young, co-owns the Historic Scott County Jail- and she be sayin' this place be haunted. Wrestling With Ghosts strolled up into Huntsville, TN to take a peek at jailhouse life, mob justice, nasty ghost women, evil menz, prudish sheriffs and the history and lore of a jail rich with bad energy and pranksters. And in this episode, Big Luke introduces his new paranormal tool: a remote controlled Fart Machine with "arresting" results. #ghosts #hauntedjail" #paranormal

Wrestling With Ghosts- New 90's Sitcom Intro

Wrestling With Ghosts will return 02/16/2024 at 7:30PM EST with a brand new investigation at Miranda Young's (aka The Ghost Biker) Historic Scott County Jail in Huntsville, TN. As with most jails, the place has an extremely interesting history and many colorful characters, including "mob justice" where inmates were drug out of the jail and jailers killed if they got in the way. But first, a new intro- inspired by 90s sitcoms... of course. #wwg #scottcounty #hauntedjail

Tuesday Tubi Movie Night!

Big Luke, Funkmaster V, and Magician/ Comedian Danny Whitson will spend every other Tuesday discussing some sort of low budget film, or B movie. This will be a live roundtable on the Big N Funky Productions Youtube Page at 7:30PM EST. Participate in the chat! Its like a sewing circle/ book club that discusses the theatrical stinkers and low budget surprises from the streaming service Tubi. As filmmakers and fans of the bizarre ourselves, we can't wait to devour the messes Luke finds for us on there. This week, we spy the simply amazing comedy/ action film "Baby Cat", directed by Scott Hillman and starring Natalie Cotter and Fawn Winters.

Go to The Big N Funky Productions Youtube page and like, subscribe and notify so you wont miss the show! 

Wrestling With Ghosts Returns TONIGHT FO FREE!!!!

 Wrestling With Ghosts vs. The Causey Light

Wrestling With Ghosts invades Nichols South Carolina to see what this legendary ghost light is all about. You can see by our dorky faces, we captured something really funkin' cool down there. Check out this remixed episode airing for the first time TONIGHT, January 19th 2024 at 7:00PM EST on the Big N Funky Productions Youtube Page! This is part of Funky Fridays, new content every Friday from the Big N Funky gang, 

Reveel TV kicks down the Streaming Doors

What is Reveel TV? Well, it is a pretty cool app that is TOTALLY FREE. You can check it out on Roku or download the app on your silly little devices. Watch the cross country comedy musical: "Vinnie's Vantatsic Rock N Roll Adventure" and the 3rd movie in the Smoky Mountain Chronicles: "Camp Smokey". You can actually have a 4 movie Big N Funky marathon up in this place.  I dig it. 

Here's the link:

https://reveel.net/programs/1303225/camp-smokey

Terrific Review From Pop Horror!

Charlie Michael Cargile is a horror movie reviewer, he watched WJHC AM on New Year's Eve (Very Appropriate) and wrote a very flattering review of the film. Check out the gloss below:

https://medium.com/@charliemichaelcargile/wjhc-am-65ff98f4aa54

Friday the 13th!!!

 Big N Funky Shindig Friday the 13th!!!

It's FREEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Folks, there’s going to be a FREE party October 13 at the Chatterbox Bar in Knoxville Tennessee. It's Movie-licious!!! There’s going to be a screening of the route 66 comedy “Vinnie’s Vantastic Rock N Roll Adventure”, AND there’s going to be a screening of our brand new horror movie “Camp Smokey”, comedians like Lance Adams, live music with Big Luke, vendors, movie merch, food trucks, pool, darts, Beer, pretty women… what more do you want? It’s totally free, but the film makers will take donations! Starts 6PM. #campsmokey

New Store has so Much Cool Stuff!

Dude, are you kidding me? Check out our new store and please considering buying some merch! There's DVDs/ Blu-Rays/ Action Figures/ Stickers/ T-shirts/ Autographs and more soon. Every little bit helps and purchasing funky stuff helps fund more funky horror comedies for years. 

Camp Smokey Wins Horror Award

"Camp Smokey" rocked the Thrills, Chills, and Kills fest in Nashville this year. It was nominated for best film out of 64 entries, and Vinnie Vineyard and Luke Walker won Best Director! That's a great fest and we are honored to snag any award from that one! #thrillschillsandkills #bestdirector

Horror Nation Loves Camp Smokey

Ryan Dailey raves about Camp Smokey in his review of the movie on the Horror-Nation website. Click here to read the review! He claims Luke Walker is the next Ash Williams! Whoa! Someone needs to bake him some cookies. #horrornation #ryandailey 

Funkmaster V at Radio Conference

The National Grassroots Radio Conference (GRC)

Funkmaster V (Vinnie Vineyard) is a keynote speaker at this years at the GRC. He will discuss his love of independent radio and the making of WJHC AM. There will be a screening of WJHC AM every evening downtown! So cool! 

This year's conference takes place in Charleston, West Virginia, from October 19th to October 22nd, with WTSQ 88.1 FM as the host radio station.

4 day conference highlighting:

• Collaboration & Networking with fellow Grassroots Broadcasters
• Cutting-edge Workshops
• Insightful Panel Discussions
• Inspiring Keynote Presentations

Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of the Grassroots Radio Movement.

Interviews For Daze

The media tour has ramped up! Check out these interviews to learn all you want about the Big N Funky family and future products!

The Strange  Films Podcast #44- Vinnie Vineyard

The Wicked Horror Show- Camp Smokey

Tommy Cullum's Let's Get Freaky- The Legends and Lore of the Great Smoky Mountains- Vinnie Vineyard

Indie Horror Spotlight- The Director of Camp Smokey

Grizzly on the Hunt- Paranormal Roudtable

Spooky Dudes Live- Ep. 23 Vinnie Vineyard Filmmaker

Danny Whitson's Brand New

Comedy/ Magic Album Drops Everywhere

Danny Whitson releases a new, unique comedy album that harkens back to 90's comedy albums like Adam Sandler's "They Are All Gonna Laugh At You." Danny combines sketches, live stand up, and interactive magic tricks THAT YOU CAN PERFORM while you are listening. Funkmaster V, Vinnie Vineyard makes an appearance during "The Flask" sketch as the bartender. 

Click here to listen to the Album FOR FREE!!!!

The Movies Be DUNNN

 CAMP SMOKEY HITS HALLOWEEN 2023

That's right! It's done and it is cool cool cool tight tight tight! See your favorite Big N Funky people team up to produce our first movie that probably truly is HORROR first, COMEDY second. A 13 year old boy survives a demonic attack that wipes out his summer camp in moments, and grows up to be a demon hunter in the woods. His only companion is a childhood teddy bear. If you like I Am Legend (the book), Halloween, Friday the 13th, Cast Away and Clerks, you will probably dig this microbudget thriller. 

Camp Smokey stars Luke Walker and Brittany Brooks and will be available on DVD/ Blu-ray and on many streaming services BEFORE Halloween 2023.

VINNIE'S VANTASTIC
ROCK N ROLL ADVENTURE
IS DONE!!!

ASY TV created this movie, but it has so much Big N Funky stank on it, you will love it. Vinnie and Luke (sort of) pick up the roles from WJHC AM as Smartass and Stoner friend, and they embark on a trip that takes them through 14 states and Route 66. The destination? The first ever HUGS concert in 25 years. Yes... THAT band HUGS, the band mentioned from WJHC AM that is a parody of the famous Satanic Jew/ painted face space pimp glam band we all love to hate or love. This movie even features it's own sound track of semi-original HUGS hits: Route 666, Butter, The Lord of Electricity, Welcome to the Shitshow, and of course "Hug It Out." Even some Hugs disco makes it into the movie. 

Vinnie's Vantastic Rock n Roll Adventure hits ASY TV September 1st!!!

www.asytv.com

Other big news on this "BIG N FUNKY STATE OF THE UNION" Video that features more information about 

*The release of "Camp Smokey"
*The release of "Vinnie's Vantastic Rock N Roll Adventure"
*Vinnie speaks at the 2023 Grassroots Radio Conference in Charleston WV
*Funkmaster V to wrestle at TWA wrestling's Hooray for Harriman Sept 4th
*New Big N Funky Merchandise coming soon!
*Atari 7800 Forever is updated! 
*More Interviews, Reviews and Podcasts coming!