Jackie Karch

Jackie Karch was born in Decatur, Texas and was raised in the rural town of Chico. He was the third of four brothers. From an early age, Jackie developed a love for film, in particular campy horror movies of the early eighties. At the tender age of thirteen, he and his twin brother Philip (P.J.)began shooting their own home videos that they promptly called "Slasher Pictures". Knowing precious little about plot development or structure, the first film they ever shot was called "Riley's Sorrow", which was about a murderous undead school janitor and it had a run-time of all of seven whole minutes. The two, however, gained a cult following, of sorts, in their small hometown and by the time they were seniors in high school, they were able to convince their theater productions teacher and high school principal to allow them to basically take over the school to film a feature length independent film which involved their fellow classmates. This project, called "The Adventures of Rodent (The Guy who Dresses Like Batman) and Fireball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", and was a slapstick parody of the eighties and nineties era Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman films. The brothers continued to make what they called "back-yard" horror movies through their college days. One of their more notable efforts during this time was another parody called "The Texas Butter Knife Massacre" (an obvious allusion to Tobe Hooper's classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"). After joining the U.S. Army and serving overseas in South Korea, Jackie ended up settling back down in north Texas in Fort Worth where he, along with Philip, started the independent Christian film production company, Karch Brothers Entertainment (KBE). KBE's first "official" feature film was called "The Reckoning", which Jackie wrote while still stationed in Korea. The film, which was not acclaimed by any stretch of the imagination and chalked with various technical problems, did circulate through some film festivals but ultimately did not gain any steam. The film did serve to build some lasting and meaningful relationships, however, for the Karch brothers which are still quite evident in their subsequent projects.