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Abducted! poster
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P.I. Felicia Dare goes undercover to stop innocent young women being kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder. Her investigations lead her to a massage parlor where Dawn Pierce, the latest missing girl, was last seen.

Abducted!

Jan 2002

Cannibal Sacrifice poster
Movie

Jesse is a cannibal whose sister is awaiting a heart transplant. Unbeknownst to her, hospital administrator Sandy has sold her sister’s place in line to a man named Jake. When Jesse is told that the heart is no longer available, and then learns her sister has died, she freaks out and goes after the people responsible for her sister’s death.

Cannibal Sacrifice

Jan 2004

The Painting of Horror poster
Movie

Roommates (who happen to dance at the world's worst strip club) receive an unexpected package in the mail..which turns out to be the Painting of Horror.

The Painting of Horror

May 1994

Slaughtered Socialites poster
Movie

Set in the early 1960's, Artie, the deranged janitor from Slaughtered Secretaries, returns to wreak havoc on a doctor and her patients. Dr. Sorens (Dawn Murphy) has taken Artie under her wing and given him a job, not believing that he killed the three secretaries five years earlier. But she's wrong and they all pay the price for her ignorance!

Slaughtered Socialites

Jul 1996

Chaos.TV poster
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Chaos.TV is the strangest, most violent "reality show" ever! Jennifer (Tina Krause) DeLarento invites a TV video crew into the house she shares with her lesbian lover, Dora (Debbie D) Fienes to videotape Dora's birthday celebration. But both women are mentally unstable and what follows is a descent into madness, all recorded for posterity, with absolutely NO interference by the video crew, despite the violent actions of both women. Each of them does horrible things to the other, despite their love for each other. The ending will leave you shaken and disturbed!

Chaos.TV

Feb 2001

Doublecross poster
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In the remake of DOUBLECROSS, Tina Krause stars as a spoiled little rich girl whose father refuses to give her any more money. She decides to make it appear she’s been kidnapped so that her rich father will pay the ransom and she’ll get the money she wants. But her stepmother (Debbie D) learns of her plot and sees a way to get even for her stepdaughter’s previous behavior. Debbie forces Tina to strip, ties her up, and puts a dog collar around her neck to keep her in line. Then when Tina tries to escape, Debbie forces her to put the dog’s favorite ball in her mouth and then it’s taped in place. But Debbie’s accomplice has his own plans and leaves both women tied back to back, completely naked, with the gas turned on!

Doublecross

Jun 2000

The Bank Heist poster
Movie

In the BANK HEIST, Tina plays a young woman who’s just been promoted to bank manager. Debbie plays the crook who will stop at nothing to get into the vault. Debbie takes Tina hostage, stripping her, gagging her, and ultimately leaving her tied to the desk with a stick of dynamite in her mouth, set to go off in two minutes! In the original, Vanessa Carlton plays the bank manager who’s left in a running car to die by carbon monoxide gas!

The Bank Heist

Jul 2000

The Invisible Stalker poster
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The Invisible Stalker stars Dean Paul in the dual role of two brothers, Jason and Eric. The former is a scientific genius and the latter a crazed psychotic. When Dr. Bonner (Tina Krause) hires Shiela (Dawn Murphy) to steal Jason’s invisibility formula, it leads to tragic consequences for all of them. Kassie Karr and Vanessa Carlton play two bar owners who seduce, and then murder Jason. Debbie D is the cop who tries to save Dr. Bonner two times but is only successful once. Crazed by his son’s death, Jason’s father (GW Lawrence) takes the formula and attacks the two girls to make them admit their guilt. But they’re rescued at the last minute only to later fall victim to the insane Eric. See Tina Krause forced to play strip Russian Roulette! See Kassie and Dawn electrocuted at the same time! And see what hideous fate awaits Tina as she’s stripped and left to be devoured by the creatures of a cave.

The Invisible Stalker

Jan 1999

Danger in Blue poster
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Tina Krause stars as policewoman Jenny Pierce, hot on the trail of a masked killer. She´s taken prisoner and must endure being bound and gagged while the criminals decide what they are going to do with her! Deana guest stars as the unfortunate worker in the video store that the killers decide to rob.

Danger in Blue

Jan 1996

Cannibal Hillbillies poster
Movie

Debbie D, Dean Paul, and Laura Giglio star in this hilarious black comedy about a none too bright hillbilly brother and sister (Dean and Laura) who come across an innocent victim (Debbie D) asking for directions after getting lost in the woods. Little does the woman know that the pair are hungry cannibals out for their next meal! After a desperate attempt to escape, the woman is caught and brought back to the pair's basement where she's shown what will happen to her. Escaping once again, the woman runs through the forest dressed only in her panties, only to be caught once again and carried completely naked back to her fate.

Cannibal Hillbillies

Jan 2003

The Perils of Jenny poster
Movie

Tracey Lixx stars as Jennifer Parker, a rookie reporter for a small town newspaper. First up, her editor wants her to find out anything that might implicate the local mobster, George Myers, with the murder of a prosecution witness, Bill Harrison. What she finds instead is a friend of Myers who doesn’t take kindly to the reporter’s search of his friend’s house. He robs her and then forces her to strip! And then he leaves her tied, gagged, and helpless on the bed! Jenny doesn’t fare any better while investigating her second story. She’s told to get the dirt on a professor who’s involved in a secret research project. But while snooping around, she manages to accidentally turn on a strong wind machine that is literally pulling her to her death!

The Perils of Jenny

Jan 2011

Strangled 7 poster
Movie

Allison Carter (Tina Krause) is a psychic who can experience the last few hours of a person’s life by just touching them. She literally takes their place and experiences exactly what they did. In “The Laughing Strangler”, a friend (Pamela Sutch) is murdered and Allison learns who the killer is. But he captures her and she finds herself chained to a table and about to be sliced in half with a sword. Will she be rescued in time? Also starring Laura Giglio and G W Lawrence and introducing Tony Bork as “The Laughing Strangler.” In “The Hypnotized Model”, Allison tries to save her friend Karen (Vanessa Carlton) from a photographer (Dean Paul) who hypnotizes his subjects and then takes revealing photos of them. Will Allison and Karen find themselves sold into white slavery?

Strangled 7

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The Archer poster
Movie

Two beautiful women enter the woods for a fun day of swimming and sunbathing only to come face to face with their own worst nightmare! Tina Krause and Deana star as the two unfortunate victims who find themselves the targets of “The Archer”. They are bound, gagged, and as they await their fate. Will they survive or will the arrow find its mark in each woman’s belly button?

The Archer

Jan 1997

Crushed poster
Movie

Clancey McCauley stars as a divorced mother who returns from a night with her boyfriend (Aven Warren) to encounter a strange creature that literally crushes her to death! Special appearance by Laura Giglio as a newscaster.

Crushed

Jan 1995

Dead In The Pool 2 poster
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Penny (Dawn Murphy), the coach's daughter from the original Dead In The Pool, faces her greatest challenge. After being viciously beaten, she's left paralyzed and in a wheel chair. Experimental treatments may help her regain her ability to walk, but at what cost? She begins to have nightmares about killing the people responsible for her plight. But then she learns they aren't really nightmares at all when each of the victims turns up dead, drowned by an unknown killer. But is the killer Penny or her rival, Susan (Vanessa Carlton) Pierce, the person responsible for Penny's injuries? Learn the truth in Dead In The Pool 2.

Dead In The Pool 2

Aug 1999

Abducted 2 poster
Movie

Laura Giglio returns as Felicia Dare and is the target of Janice (Debbie D), the masseuse from Abducted 1. Janice has escaped from prison and has hired a hitwoman (Pamela Sutch) to capture Felicia and to bring the private detective to her. Janice plans to use her latest acquisition, the hypnotic gem, to control Felicia. But what happens when Felicia’s former employee, Tyler Black (Dean Paul) shows up and uses the gem to control all three women? What will he force them to do? And will they fight to the death in a swimming pool? And will Dawn (Suzi Leigh) survive being hogtied and left to choke to death by Tyler Black? Also starring GW Lawrence.

Abducted 2

Jan 2003

Kidnapped & Chloroformed Coeds poster
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Tina Krause, Pamela Sutch, and Dakotah star in this tale of revenge and murder. Three beautiful co-eds are chloroformed, bound and gagged, and held hostage while their house is ransacked. But there’s more to it than just a simple robbery. Someone is out for revenge, and gets it, when one of the co-eds is brutally strangled and murdered! Learn the truth in the stunning conclusion! Plus see 10 minutes of never before shown footage of Tina Krause’s character as a go-go dancer. And see Tina’s Photo Gallery from the movie! Also starring G W Lawrence and Michael Priem.

Kidnapped & Chloroformed Coeds

Jan 1998

The Love Object poster
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Tina Krause stars as a submissive actress who finds herself the “love object” of a rich Countess! Forced to dress in sexy lingerie, wrists tied behind her back, Tina is prepared for her ordeal by the Countess’ assistant (Deana). She’s told that she’s going to be left chained in the barn until the Countess arrives. She’s helpless to resist as she flashes back to the last time she was in the barn when she was whipped into unconsciousness by the Countess! What horrible fate awaits her? This is one of Tina’s sexiest roles ever and WAVE first feature-length video download!

The Love Object

Jan 1995

The Assassins Part 2 poster
Movie

Someone has hired three killers to capture and murder sets of twins one by one. Christine Cavalier, Vanessa Carlton, and Deana play the sets of twins destined to die a gruesome death. Terri Lewandowski plays the lone non-twin who mistakenly lets one of the killers in her house when he tells her she’s won a contest. Laura Giglio co-stars as a hooker hired by one of the killers to give aid and comfort to his injured partner. But her payoff won’t be what she expects! Learn who’s behind the killings, and why, when one of the murderers meets with the person responsible. But only one of them will walk out of the meeting alive!

The Assassins Part 2

Jan 1998

The Agreement poster
Movie

Three beautiful prostitutes enter into a deadly business arrangement! They agree to be shot and wounded and then testify that a rival gang is responsible. In return, they’ll receive a large payoff. But one of them gets greedy, leading to tragic consequences for all three of them.

The Agreement

Jun 1995

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