This is a somewhat long recounting of a niche WAM investigation I recently went on, & the fruits of my search.
(Please let me know in the comments if I am a millennial fool who should've otherwise been aware of these well-know productions within our fetish community.)

However! Here is what unfolded -

I think a big part of why I love WAM is also because I'm fascinated with amateur filmmaking. There is almost a need for a temporal change to be witnessed in our kink. A distinct beginning & end. Clean, then suddenly pied - or slowly, or quickly, otherwise completely plastered in some form of slop or mud. So recording & rewatching that change occur seems to be a huge part of WAM.
(And to me seeing all the different techniques to accomplish capturing a wild variety of somewhat similar imagery, & to interact with the people in this community online, via primarily the UMD & twitter is incredible.)

There is a small company called 'Vinegar Syndrome' that I've become a huge fan of that restores often wild, completely bonkers exploitation, sci-fi, horror, erotica, & sometimes experimental narrative films from roughly the 70s through the 90s.

As part of their promotion of other small companies that are still putting out rare & weird films on physical media, Vinegar Syndrome began carrying this fairly new documentary, & purely based on the initial description I was hooked:

"'Mail Order Murder: The Story of W.A.V.E. Productions' is the first true and uncensored account of the New Jersey based horror and custom video movie studio W.A.V.E. Productions. Since its start in 1987, W.A.V.E. founder/director Gary Whitson has produced a staggering filmography of over 400 shot on video features by allowing his fans to script and finance their custom movies specifically tailored to satiate their own idiosyncratic video obsessions.'
https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/mail-order-murder-saturns-core

But THEN I watched the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKjzHmYcu1w

Around the 2 minute & 20 second mark an actress involved in the productions says, "At first I think I kind of thought we were just doing low-budget horror. Later, when we started doing other things like oil wrestling, & getting pies thrown at us, then you start realizing, 'Okay, there's other stuff going on here.'"

So, of course, I bought the BluRay, & watched it all. Then watched it again with the directors' commentary during the pie scene. They actually went into quite a bit of detail about how that particular pie-in-the-face clip that shown was from a W.A.V.E. production called "Trivial Pie Suit."

After a google search, I discovered this collection on what I hoped was a VHS, but I think might be a DVD. (It hasn't arrived yet.)
https://wavemovies.com/shop/movies/wet-and-messy

The only mentions I found of anything W.A.V.E. Productions related to the UMD forums specifically was this 2018 thread (which I do recall being unsettled by) called "Vintage 1994 mud horror home movie"
https://umd.net/forums/vintage-1994-mud-horror-home-movie

in which REGIS, of all people, says:
"Ha, you guys never ran across W.A.V.E. Productions before? New Jersey-based (I think). Released a ton of fetish "movies," sort of semi-disguised / passed off as direct-to-video horror films, on tape in the '90s. Basically snuff / gore / vore, but often with quicksand scenes. This was a rare indoor mud project (maybe the only one?). Never big with the wam community because their focus was so grim[.]"

(The embedded link in that thread was from a "film" called 'The Kind of Meat You Can't Buy at the Store' & it IS admittedly grim & creepy, despite prominently featuring, uh, co-ed, mud wrestling.)

[Sorry, we will not be linking to anything by Regis -MM]

I've attached a few related images from the W.A.V.E. Productions facebook page-
https://www.facebook.com/WaveProductions
- & stills from their listing of the "Wet & Messy" collection for sale on their website.

I couldn't find any other UMD posts about this custom video production company, so I'm curious:

Who among us comissioned "Pie Fight" starring Tina Krause & Aven Warren,
"Toe Painting" starring Christine Cavalier & Dave Castiglione, & "Trivial Pie Suit" tarring Pamela Sutch, & Dawn Murphy?!

Ah yes, W.A.V.E/IDS (|In Dire Straits) videos - Somewhere I have quite a few of them on VHS in a footlocker. I'd buy them for the moments I wanted because I had lost my taste for the gratuitous gore.


I very much share this feeling. The entire process of creating these things has always been a big part of the fun for me. I remember watching these but especially Rob Blaine's work at Messyfun and wanting to know all I could about the making and the ladies involved. Fascinated the living daylights out of me. I'm no different with Hollywood either but this was so much more intimate and accessible. Some people I dealt with weren't always that open or even friendly so I've always tried to remember that when people ask questions. It's nice to meet someone who might be like me.

Anyhow getting back to WAVE - I wasn't the biggest fan but they definitely need to be remembered. Everybody has their thing.

Great thread! I love this kind of stuff too-- meaning what I would call lost or forgotten scenes.
In fact, I think I had one of these VHS tapes way back in the day. Wet and muddy as opposed to pies (my interest). Years ago (the 1990s) I bought some tapes off of some guy who, I think, advertised in the old Pie Mafia newsletter. Anyway, he threw in this tape with a bunch of other tapes I wanted. I might have watched it once, at most. I should see if it is melting up in my attic.

OMG! What a memory blast! That Tina Krause and Trivial PieSuit videos I had (have?) from so long ago!

What an interesting post! I collect films on physical still, and have quite a few Vinegar Syndrome releases when I can afford to import them (admittedly the more mainstream "movie" movie ones) but this had totally passed me by!

Yes, also where it began for me!

Two other mostly false alarms from obsessing over Vinegar Syndrome titles came from "Nightmare Sisters" (1988) & "Frat House" (1979).

In "Nightmare Sisters" Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, & Michelle Bauer all get one pie each smeared over their breasts.
(No mention of the even the inception of this scene in the commentary track with the director, David DeCoteau!)

& in "Frat House" a couple of dudes wearing ski masks get pied by topless women.
(Perhaps someone, somewhere out here is into that.)