As the SpoofBox team put it:
"The Hootrix began when we received spam emails from James A Hoots. This was wierd because one of my best friends is called James Hooton. So "What is the Hootrix" because here, as a site about the spam emails when you can actually download them! Fun or what?
Then we decided it would be pretty cool to make a movie with some cheap and tacky material we had been saving up. So having nothing better to do we put together a quick movie."