review by Myke Nobody - D'Lana Tunnell photo by Jim Cole

John Michael McCarthy's teenage Tupelo stars the gorgeous D'Lana Tunnell (Gore Whore and The Sore Losers) playing D'Lana Fargo, a wild single mother that gets knocked up again. This time it's by Johnny Tu-Note (Hugh B. Brooks), an Elvis-inspired character. Both Fargo and Tu-Note are JMM's depiction of his biological parents whom he's never met, and you know his mind is twisted because he shows them fucking. JMM was adopted and Teenage Tupelo is a semi-auto-bio-sexploitation-comedy-drama. Although D'Lana Tunnell is the main star in this film, Hugh B. Brooks steals the watcher's eye sometimes and makes this movie partly a musical too.

The randomness shown in Teenage Tupelo makes you wonder what JMM is on and where to get some because you'll want it. While watching this movie JMM proves that he is amazing with the camera because the scenes look like they're from a mixture of these times: The 20s, the 70s and the present.

Impala's dark music follows you through the film and gets you high without killing any brain cells. Imagine that!

Some of the crazy shit you'll see while viewing this picture is birth, pointless but artistic nudity, a game of Russian roulette, a lesbian fantasy scene, a psychotic tattoo artist that might have tripped on way too much acid in his lifetime that has a very scary voice that echoes in all of the planes throughout your mind, and the killing of a worm that can talk. The worm-death scene is very freaky and dramatic, and may make you switch to vegetarianism if you haven't already. Hell, it might maybe even make you vegan.

As soon as you push play you'll be addicted to the genius film making of John Michael McCarthy and you'll want to dive deeper into his strange world. After one watch of Teenage Tupelo, I guarantee more in your future. Check out John Michael McCarthy at www.guerrillamonster.com