The Prophet of Oz

Imagine, if you will, LARPers — Live Action Role Playing — but on a much larger scale, filmed by video camera, fuzzy drained video colors coalescing to give us wanderers with walking sticks in the woods, primitive video effects in the place of computer generation magic and best of all, everyone is so serious about it. Like, serious enough to get out amongst the jagger bushes and mosquitos in a loin cloth of all things. You ever pore over that old Monster Manual and have a Hook Horror LJN figure? Then you’re going to get this. Maybe you’d like to see ladies in Renaissance Faire garb sword fight one another in the hometown of William Burroughs, possibly behind a mall? Do you like dialogue like, “Do mine eyes deceive me or is it Shan-Ra?” And people bowing and saying, “My lady, I beseech you for protection?” This is that movie.

Even the Fugliest person can change the course of History.

The devil grants people wishes using the "Wishing Stone", but they must follow the strict rules or very bad things will happen.

A little character named The Small One must try and set a spell right that was cast by his adopted father, a powerful wizard, who was once the protector of the land Marimdorph before he died.

An alien duo arrive on earth and begin to enslave humans, using a local Public Access Children's show as a front. Things get out of hand when a human is forcibly turned into one of them and joins a resistance to overthrow the aliens.

A young woman filled with anxiety and paranoia escapes into herself and creates a fantasy world involving ancient aliens who control the human race through the'Synthetic Man,' a figure shrouded in mystery who may hold the key to the woman's tangled past.

A dramatization of the days leading to John List's murder of his wife and children, detailing the questionable relationship between List's eldest daughter, Patricia, and her high school drama teacher. The project was written, directed and starring Edwin Illiano, Patricia's real-life drama teacher, and was shot on consumer grade video. It was released locally and is regarded as a blend of fantasy and fiction.

A mad scientist! Four beautiful women! A sex-starved zombie! Lethal experiments! All this and more add up to Zombie Nightmare where helpless victims die, not once, but twice! In his desperate attempt to revive his cancer ridden wife from suspended animation, a deranged scientist abducts four innocent women and subjects them to lethal experiments! Will his wife live again at the expense of the other women?

A scheming secretary uses black magic and voodoo to try to murder her lawyer boss so she can get her hands on the woman’s boyfriend. There are living vines, a bathtub drowning and a quicksand bog in this shot-on-video W.A.V.E. production.

Doyle the gargoyle recently found out his mom died. He doesn't know who his father is. He has reasons to believe his mom slept with a statue gargoyle and that's how he was made. Is he half Gargoyle or full Doyle? On his quest for self identity he runs into a cult leader. The cult leader is in charge of some sort of Spider Cult. LET THE SPIDERS CRAWL IN YOUR MOUTH.

After losing one of their members to graduation, a sorority of altruistic witches must choose a new student for their coven. When Alexis is spurned for the spot, she immediately exacts revenge on the sorority by killing them one by one.

Constantly demeaned by his wife, Helen, after the death of their son, Dr. Luke Pratt devises a scheme to do away with her, too. But if he thinks that will silence her, he has another think coming. Now taunted by her grimacing skull, he goes slowly mad and must find a way to get rid of her... again.

A priest senses a change in the Earth. The gates are opening and Hell is being unleashed. Meanwhile, a couple friends are having gruesome dreams of demonic mayhem and wonder if these are merely nightmares or a premonition.

An S/M couple kidnaps a young victim and tortures her. They film the tortures and send the videos to the girl's husband, hoping to horrify him and get a reaction. But the husband is excited and asks for more...

Jon, Tom, and Denise accidently kill their senile old Aunt while she's looking after them while their father is away on business. Not sure what to do, they decide to dispose of the body in the rented woodchipper in the backyard. But more trouble comes a-knocking when their cousin Kim, their Aunt's son, shows up unexpectedly.

Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of diversion from their collaborations since it’s a series of interwoven videos inspired by the Gainsbourgalbum. For '71 it’s a novel concept to bring visual life to an LP, but even more surprising are the short film’s amazing visuals that director Averty crafted using a wealth of video filters, overlays, camera movements and chroma key effects. Averty applies these in tandem with the increasing tone of Gainsbourg’s songs, which more or less chronicle an older man's affair with a young girl. Each song is comprised of steady, sometimes brooding poetic delivery, with refrains timed to the phrase repeats of each song, while Alan Parker’s buzzing guitar accompanies and wiggles around Gainsbourg’s resonant voice. The bass is fat and groovy, the drums easy but steady, and the periodic use of strings or rich vibrato makes this short a sultry little gem.

Private Johnny Less, codename: Ramboner is out for a Sunday stroll through Mellowsville when the local sheriff, Chief Beheiny, decides to have some fun with him. It may be the last mistake Beheiny ever makes! Even with the advice of Col. Robert Young, can the law stop the man whom combat excites?

Recent widow Mandy is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her rich father-in-law is contacted for the money. Dressed only in a sheer nightgown, and bound and gagged, Mandy is forced to walk barefoot in the woods at night, is placed in the trunk of a car and is left in the shower to be drenched. And then, while waiting for the payment, the kidnapper begins to fall in love with the frightened girl. But that’s not all! He’s got a foot fetish that the girl tries to use to her advantage in an attempt to escape. And then his accomplice (Deana Enoches) comes between them. And the result is a deadly confrontation ending in murder!

In the 1950's, three secretaries fall victim to deranged janitor Artie, who attacks them, kidnaps them, forces them to play strip poker and Russian Roulette and then murders them. Will anyone survive?

A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.