David A. Prior

Alabama-based film-maker David A. Prior is a self-taught director, writer and producer of over 30 B-movies. Prior made his directorial debut in 1983 with a slasher flick in which a gaggle of hick jocks holds a seance and unwittingly releases the ghost of a killer who sledgehammers his victims to death (aptly entitled, Sledgehammer). But it wasn't until his second feature film- 1986's Aerobicide- that Prior began to really display his Ed-Woodenly bizarre sense of storytelling. The summary blurb for instance, proudly boasts "Beautiful young girls in skintight leotards exercising at Rhonda's workout club are meeting a bloody end at the hands of a pin wielding maniac." Like Ed Wood, Prior's sense of absurdism is combined with a cheapness...