As Writer / Director
Toga Party Massacre (1988 / 2025 Remaster)
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It is 1988. A houseful of unsupervised teenagers are terrorized by a persistent masked psycho whose modus operandi becomes increasingly predictable.
Now digitally remastered from the original camera tapes (SVHS!) and sporting a new stereo sound mix (up from the original 2 linear audio tracks the film originally had)... Toga Party Massacre has the unique distinction of being partially shot by Mark Borchardt, the subject of 1999 Sundance documentary winner "American Movie." Get the Limited Edition VHS Here! |
"Broadsword" Jethro Tull Concept Video (2025)
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This is my first foray into generative video, sort of an 80s video/80s fantasy/Conan riff, using an image-to-video pipeline of Flux in ComfyUI, followed by Kling, Wan2.1, and a lot of Adobe manipulation in Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Trying to get consistent characters and continuity on this one. The main character was built off of video from my wife at age 18, and the dark sorceress character was "built from scratch."
At this point, I think the process is more like documentary: you go out trying to capture the subject you want and you don't exactly get it so you spend a lot of time editing and rethinking how you use the parts you did get. This tested my editing ability and my patience in equal amounts. |
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Big Retro Video (2020)Video Vinnie is a lonely clerk at a video rental store, helping the newly-quarantined populace of 2020 recreate the feeling of the family-owned video rental shop right at home. Produced in Adobe Character Animator and starring Michael J Heagle as Vinnie. Heagle did work in a video rental store (Best Buy #25 in Greenfield Wisconsin) while in college, and the experience inspired not only this series but the Big Retro Video book series.
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Transylvania Television (2007-2014)Transylvania Television, the Retro Monster Comedy That's Really Not for Kids: an adult puppet sitcom in which a misfit band of monsters try not to kill each other as they run a television station in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains.
In addition to writing and directing on Transylvania Television, Michael Heagle is known for playing the role of Dwayne Frankenstein, the lovable "village idiot" of the station. And if you dig that, you can get a lovely little autographed glossy 8x10 picture of Dwayne in our SHOP right now! Join the Minions on Facebook AND WATCH TVTV STREAMING NOW!
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Planetfall (2005)When a military transport crash lands on a war-torn planet, competing factions seek the last, lost stockpile of the illicit psychic-power enhancing drug Psylenol. Starring Leitha Matz and Heidi Fellner, the film has appearances from cult movie auteur Ted V. Mikels (Astro Zombies, Doll Squad) as Zitan President Arch Stanton, Jesse Ventura’s son Tyrel Ventura as shady dealer Syrus Theed, and the voice of John Levene (Doctor Who’s Sgt. Benton) as a pissed-off alien!
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Go To Hell (2000)Distributed by Troma (purveyors of such classic films as Class of Nuke 'Em High and The Toxic Avenger)! Steeped in drive-in culture and exploitation filmmaking lore, Go to Hell centers around tabloid news reporter Dario Dare, who, in the search for the ultimate supernatural cover story for his Weekly World News-esque paper the National Explainer, becomes embroiled in a supernatural assassination!
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