The Ma Barker Story


A musical comedy based on the day to day life of the notorious 1930s Barker Gang. Filmed on location at the Barker Ranch, the Spahn Ranch and in downtown Trona. Starring the Goddess Bunny as Ma Barker, Brett and Bubba of Psycho-Drama as Herman and Freddie Barker, Glen Meadmore as Alvin Karpis, X-Tina as Rembrandt and Harlan as Pa Barker.

"The murder is too real!" – Don Murphy

All hail historian and archivist John Aes-Nihil for his beautifully unnerving film The Ma Barker Story. A whacked-out mutation of Corman's Bloody Mama, Aes-Nihil's masterpiece contains cinema's most disturbing murder scene, as well as intense performances by some really fucked up individuals. Thirteen years in the making, painfully assembled without money or divine guidance, this harrowing account of America's Most Wanted Family is expansive and extreme, exploring the psyche's most painful regions. Excellent acting, hypnotic camera work, insane violence, etc. FIVE STARS, NINE PLANETS, 86 MOONS and an ASTEROID BELT for this one." – George Petros

"Andy Warhol may be dead but he must be clapping from on high over John Aes-Nihil’s latest pairing with the divine Goddess Bunny in this outing that maybe continues the paths explored in Lonesome Cowboys, or at least charts a direction The Shaggs may have taken if they were homosexual paraplegics on LSD. The garbage dumpsters of Southern California appear to be overflowing as Aes-Nihil has merely dusted the tops of the refuse to populate his latest pioneering adventure, a toiled and unwashed milieu of decadence, murder, rape and the deconstruction of the Western adventure. With an overly wavering camera eye, subdued sound recording complete with obscuring winds, and a dirt-covered set that suspiciously resembles my mind’s-eye illusion of the Spahn Ranch in its Manson-overrun heyday, Ma Barker obliterates preconceived notions of what a film is, and gives us... this."Shade Rupe

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