{"id":362447,"date":"2025-08-21T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362447\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:10:15","slug":"wicked-of-oz-indie-horror-movie-turns-wizard-of-oz-into-a-bloody-slasher-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/362447\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Wicked of Oz’ – Indie Horror Movie Turns ‘Wizard of Oz’ into a Bloody Slasher [Images]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The public domain horror craze has left very few stones unturned in just the past few years, and you probably guessed that L. Frank Baum\u2019s Wizard of Oz <\/strong>was probably on the short list of classic tales being targeted for the horror movie treatment. Enter Wicked of Oz<\/strong>, a \u201cspectacularly dark and bloody reimagining\u201d that\u2019s being unleashed this coming November.<\/p>\n

Insurgence, actor-producer Tom Malloy\u2019s Trick Candle Productions, and filmmaker James Cullen Bressack\u2019s Sandaled Kid Productions have joined forces with director Aaron Mirtes<\/strong> for Wicked of Oz, a twisted take on the legendary story that\u2019s being billed as a slasher film.<\/p>\n

The Wicked of Oz traps Dorothy Gale in a savage land where she faces a blood-drenched death everywhere she turns, and Deadline<\/a> has shared the first images and information this week.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the synopsis: \u201cA freak tornado pulls Dorothy into the wicked world of Oz just in time for the down-on-her-luck Kansas farm girl to confront Glinda, a starving cannibal who finds herself all out of Munchkin meat. And things go down from there, as Dorothy goes head-to-head (literally) against a skull-cracking Scarecrow, a Tin Man whose hobby is to collect still-beating hearts and a Cowardly Lion who pleases his master by ripping apart anyone he sees. Oz becomes Ooze as Dorothy \u2013 armed with scavenged weapons \u2013 battles her way through hordes of psychotic enemies until she happens upon her ultimate nemesis, the Wicked Of Oz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kenzie Wynne stars<\/strong> as Dorothy Gale, alongside Chelsey Fuller<\/strong> as Glinda; Patrick Sharn<\/strong> as The Wizard; Destinee Mon\u00e9t<\/strong> as Toto; Zach Lazar Hoffman<\/strong> as The Cowardly Lion; Brad Belemjian<\/strong> as The Scarecrow; and Carson Butcher<\/strong> as The Tin Man.<\/p>\n

The upcoming slasher film is directed by Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood, Escape Pod) and written by Mirtes with Nathan Illsley<\/strong> (Acts of Desperation) based on a story by James Cullen Bressack (Darkness of Man, Hot Seat, Fortress, Beyond The Law) and Scotty Mullen (Zoombies, Sharknado 5 & 6).<\/p>\n

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