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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... MORE

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 aesthetic that makes it almost impossible to determine whether or not he realizes how unlikely his stories are, how arbitrarily his characters' behavior is or how absent of subtext every line of dialogue sounds. Also like Wood, Prior has a ceaseless work ethic. He is the only director in Hollywood history to make 10 full length feature films in one year.. However, quantity often calls for small sacrifices in quality; for instance in the credits for LESS