Cool Trailer for Trost’s ‘The Waves of Madness’ Side-Scrolling Movie
by Alex Billington
July 2, 2025
Source: YouTube
“If you get this message – don’t send help!” Umbrella Ent. has revealed an official trailer for an indie action horror film titled The Waves of Madness, from filmmaker Jason Trost. This trailer originally debuted a few months ago, but we’re just catching up with it now (thanks to a tip from Live for Film). It’s described as the first side-scrolling film ever, using the old video game side-scroller style to tell this B&W story. A special agent is dispatched to investigate a distress call from a round-the-world cruise, only to find the ship eerily abandoned and haunted by a malevolent force that twists sanity into terror. Starring Jason Trost, Tallay Wickham, Ryan Gibson. The indie film was made “for just $20,000 in a single studio apartment with a crew of three… Trost also [did] the entire post-production himself in Final Cut Pro, using practical effects, in-camera trickery, and hand-built digital matte backgrounds to evoke a dreamlike, side-on horror world.” Awesome. The film is barely 68 minutes and looks like it might just be a totally entertaining indie creation.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Jason Trost’s film The Waves of Madness, from YouTube:
“You won’t accept the truth!” A special agent is dispatched to investigate a distress call from a round-the-world cruise, only to find the ship eerily abandoned and haunted by a malevolent force that twists sanity into terror. The Waves of Madness is both written & directed by American indie actor / writer / filmmaker Jason Trost (brother of Brandon Trost – formerly known as the “Trost Bros”), director of the films The FP, All Superheroes Must Die 1 & 2, Wet and Reckless, How to Save Us, FP2: Beats of Rage, “Corona House”, FP3: Escape from Bako, and FP – 4EVZ previously. Produced by Michael E. Lee, Tallay Wickham, and Jason Trost. Made down in Australia with Umbrella Entertainment. This first premiered at the 2024 Nightmares Film Festival last year but didn’t play anywhere else. Trost’s The Waves of Madness film is already available to watch on Blu-ray & streaming right now – you can find all the ways to watch right here. Anyone into this?