"[9] One of Tom Huckabee's early films, Death of a Rock Star,[10] was loosely based on The Doors singer Jim Morrison.
[11] The movie was well-received,[12][13] and featured a scene with Steve Bridgewater, an Austin police officer who would later become the same law enforcement that led the much-published "bust" of Huckabee's Huns band.
"[16] When a September 1978 Huns show made news from inciting a major police raid at Austin's Raul's,[17][18] Huckabee said of his band, "We sounded like the Sex Pistols, with Sid on every instrument.
[20] Described as "Avant-punk,"[21] "art rock," and "Cajun-punk,"[22] the Re*Cords broke ground and focused on ironic social statements, gaining a reputation as, "one of the most important bands in Austin.
"[25] In 1980, Huckabee was said to be the Re*Cords band member, "who makes a considerable virtue out of sheer unpredictability" with his cymbal solo "that's amazing for its utter incomprehensibility.
[27] As Tom Huckabee and Bill Paxton collaborated on multiple levels, their first official and distributed 1983 film was Taking Tiger Mountain.
[35] In the footage, never officially released, Cameron talks extensively under Huckabee's direction about his many positive and risky experiences with psilocybin and LSD, among other deeply cerebral substances.
[36] Also for director James Cameron, Tom Huckabee and Bill Paxton co-wrote a script called Lonesome Cowgirls: Amazon Women of the West.
The music video, also called "Reach," was shot in Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch[37] and starred Kathryn Bigelow, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, and Bud Cort, with others.
Besides 'finding' the property and foisting it on Bill, I may have made small contributions to the script in the final stages of development, but I wouldn’t want to take anything away from the sole author, Brent Hanley, nor chief producers Paxton, David Kirschner, and Corey Sienega..."[46] In 2009, Tom Huckabee wrote and directed the feature film Carried Away.
[47][48] The movie premiered 9 April 2010,[49] and was produced by James Johnston,[50] starring Juli Erickson, Gabriel Horn (who also co-produced),[51] Morgana Shaw,[52] and others.