Jeff Krulik

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Jeff Krulik is a director of independent films and a former Discovery Channel producer Kruliks work frequently explores the fringes of popular culture from an enthusiastic and appreciative point of view He is best known for his 1986 documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot coproduced by John Heyn a gently disturbing but for the most part funloving look into hardrock fandom recorded at the Capital Centre parking lot in Landover Maryland before a Judas Priest concert Most of the fans appear drunken and drugged with bare feet muscle shirts barechested bleach blonde frizzy perms mullets from hell big hair bad teeth scar tissue and by far the largest collection of late 70s Camaros ever seen in one location  Cult director John Waters said of the film It gave me the creeps Heavy Metal Parking Lot for a decade or more circulated through wordofmouth via the internet and on secondtonthgeneration bootlegged copies A 20thanniversary DVD edition with sequels outtakes wherearetheynow bonus footage and other inspirations is now available for sale In his first professional position Krulik served as the Metrovision Publicaccess television cable TV channel coordinator for the southern portion of Prince Georges County Maryland a community that has inspired several of his films including Public Access Gibberish 1990 a greatest hits montage of the most bizarre acts during his tenure at the cable access channel Other films are Neil Diamond Parking Lot 1996 about the fans before a Neil Diamond concert at the same stadium as Heavy Metal Parking Lot one decade later and Ernest Borgnine On the Bus 1997 a documentary about actor Ernest Borgnine his son and his custom RV a compilation of many of the directors short films titled Heavy Metal Parking Lot The Films of Jeff Krulik was released several years ago Most of these films along with flims made by Kruliks friends and some additional found footage are viewable for free in streaming formats on his official website In 2004 the Trio cable channel began broadcasting a show by Krulik titled Parking Lot which expanded on the parking lot documentary series started in the 1980s Created coproduced by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn in association with Radical Media eight episodes were filmed although it is unclear as to how many of them were actually broadcasted It does not appear that the program will be shown again on the channel Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Krulik licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia