Michael David Sonye (/ˈsʌni/; born April 22, 1954), best known by
his stage name Dukey Flyswatter, is an American actor, screenwriter
and musician, recognized for his work on numerous low-budget B movies
and as singer for the Los Angeles horror punk band Haunted
Garage.Sonye first began acting as a teenager in community theatre,
where at one point he received improvisation lessons from Del Close.
His earliest screen credit came in 1975, when he worked as a script
doctor on a draft of the screenplay for the horror film Frozen Scream,
which was famously listed as one of the original "video nasties";
though the film was not banned outright, it still remains unreleased
in the United Kingdom. Nearly a decade later, Sonye struck up a
partnership with prolific low-budget director Fred Olen Ray. With Ray,
Sonye penned the screenplays for his films Prison Ship and Commando
Squad, both of which he acted in, and appeared in minor roles in films
including The Tomb, Cyclone and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.In 1987,
Sonye wrote the screenplay for the campy horror comedy Blood Diner. A
loose remake of the 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis film Blood Feast,
Blood Diner has since been dubbed a "cult classic" by horror fans and
websites such as Dread Central, HorrorNews.net and GeekNation. The
same year, Sonye appeared in a co-starring role as the villainous
Mengele in the infamous Troma-produced Surf Nazis Must Die, itself
also considered a "cult classic", albeit as one of the worst movies
ever made. In 1988, he provided the voice of Uncle Impie, the primary
puppet antagonist of David DeCoteau's Sorority Babes in the Slimeball
Bowl-O-Rama.
his stage name Dukey Flyswatter, is an American actor, screenwriter
and musician, recognized for his work on numerous low-budget B movies
and as singer for the Los Angeles horror punk band Haunted
Garage.Sonye first began acting as a teenager in community theatre,
where at one point he received improvisation lessons from Del Close.
His earliest screen credit came in 1975, when he worked as a script
doctor on a draft of the screenplay for the horror film Frozen Scream,
which was famously listed as one of the original "video nasties";
though the film was not banned outright, it still remains unreleased
in the United Kingdom. Nearly a decade later, Sonye struck up a
partnership with prolific low-budget director Fred Olen Ray. With Ray,
Sonye penned the screenplays for his films Prison Ship and Commando
Squad, both of which he acted in, and appeared in minor roles in films
including The Tomb, Cyclone and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.In 1987,
Sonye wrote the screenplay for the campy horror comedy Blood Diner. A
loose remake of the 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis film Blood Feast,
Blood Diner has since been dubbed a "cult classic" by horror fans and
websites such as Dread Central, HorrorNews.net and GeekNation. The
same year, Sonye appeared in a co-starring role as the villainous
Mengele in the infamous Troma-produced Surf Nazis Must Die, itself
also considered a "cult classic", albeit as one of the worst movies
ever made. In 1988, he provided the voice of Uncle Impie, the primary
puppet antagonist of David DeCoteau's Sorority Babes in the Slimeball
Bowl-O-Rama.
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