The Wizard of Ounceshas been made right into a horror movie known as Depraved of Oz.
L. Frank Baum’s kids’s ebook The Great Wizard of Oz, launched in 1900, has been used because the inspiration for the low-budget film, directed by Aaron Mirtes.
Mirtes is working from a script by Mirtes and Nathan Illsley, based mostly on an concept by James Cullen Bressack and Scotty Mullen, which is able to see Dorothy Gale trapped in a brutal land the place she faces a blood-drenched loss of life in all places she turns.
The synopsis for the movie reveals {that a} freak twister pulls Dorothy – who’s performed by Kenzie Wynne – into the depraved world of Ounceswhere she is going to meet Glinda, a ravenous cannibal who has now extra Munchkin meat to feast on.
Dorothy can even encounter a skull-cracking Scarecrow, a Tin Man whose interest is to gather still-beating hearts and a Cowardly Lion who pleases his grasp by ripping aside anybody he sees.
Ouncesbecomes Ooze as Dorothy – armed with scavenged weapons – battles her manner by means of hordes of psychotic enemies till she lastly occurs upon her final nemesis, the Depraved of Oz.
The horror romp additionally stars Chelsey Fuller as Glinda, Patrick Sharn as The Wizard, Destinee Monét as Toto, Zach Lazar Hoffman as The Cowardly Lion, Brad Belemjian as The Scarecrow and Carson Butcher as The Tin Man.
The Depraved of Ounceshas been produced by Bressack, Tom Malloy and Niccolo Messina, CEO of indie movie studio Insurgence, and is scheduled for a November 2025 launch.
Messina mentioned: “The artistic group behind Depraved of Oz — style veterans James Cullen Bressack, Scotty Mullen, Tom Malloy and Aaron Mirtes — mix credit that span every little thing from Mel Gibson motion thrillers to Sharknado.
“Along with our wickedly proficient solid, the movie gives no songs, no rainbows – simply blood and our bodies piling excessive onto the Ouncessky. Its ferocious enjoyable for each fan of gore.”
Most movie followers will bear in mind the 1939 model of The Wizard of Oz, which starred future Hollywood icon Judy Garland because the displaced Dorothy. Victor Fleming’s musical film continues to draw new generations of followers to today.
In 2024, movie followers flocked to cinemas to observe Jon M. Chu’s Depraved, which relies on the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman.
The Depraved plot serves as a prequel to The Wizard of Ouncesand reveals College dormitory roommates Elphaba Thropp (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda Upland (Ariana Grande) within the Land of Ouncesprior to Dorothy Gale’s arrival from Kansas.
It focuses on the pair’s relationship earlier than Elphaba turns into the Depraved Witch of the West.
The sequel Depraved: For Good shall be launched in November 2025.
