About John R. Hand and JRH Films

John R. Hand formed JRH Films in 2005 with the goal producing work with a unique style which incorporates elements of both conventional narrative and experimental cinema.

His debut feature-length film which he photographed in Super-8, Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare, garnered a peculiar degree of underground acclaim for it's annoying combination of surrealist logic and vintage horror set-pieces. Joe Leydon wrote in Variety that the film "...plumbs the lower depths of awfulness to a degree unmatched by pictures merely inept and/or pretentious" and could "become a cult item by dint of its befuddling cruddiness." Hand is currently working on new films to further annoy all types of people.

Press

Fangoria News Item
Independent Weekly Article
Cinehound Interview
Cinephelia Interview
M. J. Simpson Interview

 

Selected Works

Scars of Youth (2009, 82 min., HD)
Writer/Producer/Director/Editor/Cinematographer

Pygmalion and Galatea (1997-2007, 2 min. 57 sec., 16mm)
Writer / Producer / Director / Editor / Cinematographer

Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare (2006, 77 min., Super-8 and MiniDV)
Writer / Producer / Director / Editor / Cinematographer

Retard Boy (1996, 23 min., Video)
Writer / Producer / Director / Editor / Cinematographer