John Roecker is an independent filmmaker who is associated with the punk subculture.^{[1][citation needed]} He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.^[2] Roecker is probably best known for Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, a stop motion animated comedy based on the true crime book Helter Skelter.^[3][4]

This article's factual accuracy is disputed. (August 2013)

From 1996 to 1999, Roecker and Exene Cervenka co-owned Los Angeles store "You've Got Bad Taste." The store specialized in kitsch and various "off-color" novelties, such as paintings by serial killer and rapist John Wayne Gacy and a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wanted poster of bank robber Patty Hearst .^[5] He recently released an album with collaborator Dylan Melody titled Rocker|Melody^[6] on Frontier Records. A music video was created for every track on the album.

Next, Roecker and Melody are collaborating on a musical about Charles Manson.^[7]

• "The Fear Morty's Theme" Bootleg: From the Lost Vault, Vol. 1, Esham. Music video. Director. (2000)
• Disease is Punishment, The Network. Concert video. Director. (2004)
• Live Freaky! Die Freaky!.^[4] Stop motion feature film. Animator, director, and screenwriter. (2006)
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars* (*But Were Too Afraid to Ask). Seven-part documentary TV series based on interviews with male pornography stars. Director. (2008)^[8]
• Svengali!, (webseries). Actor, director, and screenwriter. (2010)
• They're All Out Without You, short film using footage cut from Heart Like a Hand Grenade (see above in 2009). Director and screenwriter. (2011)
• Tim Timebomb's Rock'n'Roll Theatre, (webseries). Co-written with Tim Armstrong. (2012)
• Heart Like a Hand Grenade. Documentary of Green Day's production of the 2004 album American Idiot. Recorded from 2003 to 2005. Director. (2015)