"The Omenous" (1980 David Markey) clockwise Jordan Schwartz, Deeana Christe,

Darrell Clark, & Maria Bishop

At the age of 15 David Markey wrote and directed "The Omenous", a horror film parody starring the kids from his Santa Monica neighborhood shot on Super-8 sound film.  It took him a year to make, from conception to screening.  With mega-budget script requirements as total global annihilation, and a 16 story tall robot ("Mister Malinga") destroying an office building, Michael Bay would be envious an adolescent Markey brought this picture in for $150.00.  And that was many allowances invested in this backyard film.  The amazing Maria Bishop stars as Carrie Wright, adopted daughter of billionaire W.W. Wright (Jordan Schwartz in his show-stopping film debut).  As it turns out, Carrie's biological mother Slave Matilda is a prostitue on Sunset Blvd.  who mysteriously dies in labor, behind a dumpster.  Bad things keep happening to Carrie on her birthday each year, such as an arm suddenly bursting out of a birthday cake (a'la  the climax of Brian Depalma's 1976 Carrie.) and strangling her party guest's to death. 

Needless to say, Carrie feels different, but she does not understand why.  Carrie is eventually visited on her sweet 16th by The Yellow Psychic (the brilliant Peter Garcia), a flamboyant curly haired blonde who, after lyp-synching "Sweet Transvestive" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", informs Carrie of her mission; she must rule the world before it ends.  Meanwhile, opposing forces are vying for global control, lead by one Milton Shipman (Steven Stromoski).  A nuclear holocaust does indeed wipe all life from the face of the earth, except, of course, Carrie and her arch nemesis, Milton Shipman.  Are they the new Adam & Eve?  Will they settle their differences in order to save humanity?  Also featuring Jennifer Schwartz, Juanita Watkins, Jimi Roche, Paul Nelson & Peter Ivers (of "New Wave Theater" fame).

The film premiered in Santa Monica at the Bay Cities Jewish Community Center October of 1980 to an enthusiastic audience consisting primarily of the cast, and their parents and siblings.  Sarah Macdonald (mother of Jordan Schwartz) invited friends of hers who were key writers of "Three's Company", who wrote a letter of encouragment to the young director, on Three's Company letterhead stationary.  The Omenous was later screened in New York City in 1989 as a part of a David Markey film exhibit at a former funeral home and also at Richard Kern's loft, viewed by such NYC Underground film figures as Kern, Nick Zedd, David Wojnarowicz, Steve Doughton, Tommy Turner & Tessa Hughes Freeland.