DOOM Incorporated is an American film production company based in

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. The company was founded by

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and

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Thomas Mignone Thomas Mignone is an American feature film, streaming media, commercial, and music video director, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing and writing the dark dramas '' On the Doll'' and ''Queen Of Manhattan'' and for directing concep ...

History

In 2001, Mignone launched DOOM Inc to produce the original feature films, commercials, music videos, television and web content he creates, writes and directs. The company is best known for producing The Latin From Manhattan, the dark drama On The Doll, and music videos for

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and Distortion (music), distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the Garage rock, garage, Psychedelic rock, psychedelic and blues ...

and heavy metal artists such as Slipknot,

Mudvayne Mudvayne is an American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in Peoria, Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, in 1996. Known for their sonic experimentation, face and body paint, masks and uniforms, the band has sold over five million records wor ...

, System Of A Down,

Suicide Silence Suicide Silence is an American deathcore band from Riverside, California, Riverside, California. The band was established in 2002, and has released seven studio albums, three EPs, and nineteen music videos. They were awarded the ''Revolver (ma ...

Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold (abbreviated as A7X) is an American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of vocalist M. Shadows, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, lead gui ...

Sepultura Sepultura (, "grave")Barcinski & Gomes 1999, page 17. is a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in Belo Horizonte in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera.Barcinski & Gomes 1999, page 16. They were a major force in the groove metal, thrash met ...

, Danzig,

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Cavalera Conspiracy Cavalera Conspiracy is a Brazilian-American heavy metal supergroup from Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Brazilian brothers Max (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Igor Cavalera (drums, percussion), who are widely known as former members of Sepultura, an ...

Type O Negative Type O Negative was an American gothic/doom metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1989 by Peter Steele (bass, lead vocals), Kenny Hickey (guitar, co-lead vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums ...

Megadeth Megadeth is an American thrash metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine. Known for their technically complex guitar work and musicianship, Megadeth is one of the "big four" of American thrash metal—alo ...

, American Head Charge,

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, Superjoint Ritual,

Fear Factory Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial met ...

Soulfly Soulfly is an American heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1997. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 1996. To date the band has release ...

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Otep Otep was an American nu metal band. The band was formed in November 2000 in Los Angeles by frontwoman Otep Shamaya. The band is noted for their style of "art-house nu metal", and their strong political stances. Throughout the course of several ...

, The Fall of Troy,

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, and Killer Be Killed as well as others.

Feature films

Throughout 2024 Mignone directed and wrote ''Queen Of Manhattan'', a feature film based on the life of Vanessa Del Rio as the World's First Latina adult film star and featuring actors

Esai Morales Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films '' Bad Boys'' with Sean Penn and '' La Bamba'' with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series '' Americ ...

Drea de Matteo Andrea Donna de Matteo (born January 19, 1972) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Adriana La Cerva on the television drama ''The Sopranos'' (1999–2006), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sup ...

Taryn Manning Taryn Manning (born November 6, 1978) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett in the Netflix original series ''Orange Is the New Black'' (2013–2019), Cherry in ''Sons of Anarchy'' (200 ...

David Proval David Proval (born May 20, 1942) is an American actor best known for his roles as Tony DeVienazo in the Martin Scorsese film '' Mean Streets'' (1973), Snooze in ''The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), Siegfried in '' Four Rooms'' (1995) and as Ric ...

, Elizabeth Rodriguez.

Shane West Shannon Bruce Snaith (born June 10, 1978), better known as Shane West, is an American actor, singer and songwriter. He is known for his portrayal of Eli Sammler in the ABC family drama ''Once and Again'', Landon Carter in '' A Walk to Remember' ...

, Josh Malina,

Jesse Metcalfe Jesse Eden Metcalfe (born December 9, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for being John Rowland on ''Desperate Housewives''. Metcalfe has also had notable roles on ''Passions'' and played the title role in '' John Tucker Must Die''. He sta ...

and Dita Von Teese. It was selected as the Opening Night Film at the Portland Film Festival and won the Best Director Award. In 2010, Mignone directed and wrote the feature film '' On the Doll'' starring

Brittany Snow Brittany Anne Snow (born March 9, 1986) is an American actress. She came to prominence for her role in the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light'' (1998–2001), for which she won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress and was nominated for two o ...

, Josh Janowicz, Candice Accola,

Angela Sarafyan Angela Sarafyan (), sometimes credited as Angela Sarafian, is an American actress. She has appeared as a guest star in several television series and has acted in the feature films: '' Kabluey'' (2007), '' On the Doll'' (2007), '' A Beautiful Life ...

, Clayne Crawford,

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James Russo James Vincent Russo (born April 23, 1953) is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in over 150 films in three decades. Early life Russo was born in New York City to an Italian father and German mother. A graduate of the High Sch ...

and

Theresa Russell Theresa Lynn Russell ( Paup; born March 20, 1957) is an American actress whose career spans over four decades. Her Theresa Russell filmography, filmography includes over 50 feature films, ranging from mainstream to independent film, independent a ...

. The title refers to the phrase ''"Show me on the doll where he touched you"'', which is often asked of children who have been victimized by molesters. ''On The Doll'' premiered at the

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and was also selected to screen at the 25th Anniversary of the

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in France, Cinequest in San Jose, Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, and the 15th Annual

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in Germany. The film's soundtrack features new music from

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, and an original score from former

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bassist

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. In October 2012, Mignone was one of several international filmmakers selected by the Cinequest Film Festival to direct and produce a film in concurrence with their partnership with

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. Additional feature film projects include ''Otep: Live Confrontation Concert Documentary'', ''Slipknot: Welcome To Our Neighborhood'', ''Satanika'', a live-action version of the comic-book female anti-hero created by multi-platinum rock musician Glenn Danzig, and ''Ursa Minor''. Mignone also helped develop the TV series '' The Deuce'', which revolves around organized crime-controlled Times Square during the '70s and '80s. Upcoming film and streaming series projects for Mignone include he Last Fabulist In Brooklynand he Dissident's Dreambased on the extraordinary life of scientist and physicist Hrachya Hovsepyan who founded

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the first computer company in

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Music videos

Mignone's music video for Mudvayne's hit song " Dig" won the first

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Award and was the first music video to feature heavy metal artists with vibrant, brightly lit and color-saturated images, in sharp contrast to the dark, shadowy videos typical of the genre. Mignone directed several hit videos for multi-platinum artist Slipknot including Wait & Bleed which received a

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nomination. He directed Spit It Out and paid homage to

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's feature film The Shining. The video consists of conceptual imagery with bandmembers portraying characters enacting iconic scenes from the film, with

Joey Jordison Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison (April 26, 1975 – July 26, 2021) was an American musician. He was the original drummer of the nu metal band Slipknot (band), Slipknot, in which he was designated #1, and the guitarist for the horror punk Supergroup ...

as Danny Torrance;

Shawn Crahan Michael Shawn Crahan (born September 24, 1969), more commonly known by his stage persona "Clown", is an American musician. He is the co-founder, percussionist, and only original member remaining of the alternative metal band Slipknot (band), Sli ...

and

Chris Fehn Christopher Fehn (born February 24, 1973) is an American musician. He was a percussionist and backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Slipknot from 1998 to 2019, in which he was designated #3. He was also the bassist for Will Haven from 20 ...

as the Grady sisters;

Corey Taylor Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, author and actor. He is the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Slipknot (band), Slipknot, in which he is designated #8, as well as the lead vocalist, guitarist, ly ...

as Jack Torrance; Mick Thomson as Lloyd the Bartender; Craig Jones as Dick Hallorann;

James Root James Donald Root (born October 2, 1971) is an American guitarist. He is one of two guitarists for heavy metal music, heavy metal band Slipknot (band), Slipknot, in which he is designated #4, as well as the former lead guitarist for Rock music ...

as Wendy Torrance; Paul Gray as Harry Derwent; and Sid Wilson as the corpse in the bathtub. The video was banned from

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for overtly graphic and violent depictions, including Corey Taylor's smashing through a door with an axe and the scene wherein James Root viciously assaults Corey Taylor with a baseball bat. Mignone and the band eventually re-edited a less violent version, which was subsequently aired on MTV. with each of the band's nine members appearing in intensely re-envisioned scenes. His video for

's " Roots Bloody Roots" received the Video Of The Year Award from

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Magazine. It was filmed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and was the first music video to contrast the hard rock group's intense performance with images of capoiera dancers, timbalada musicians, and other traditional Brazilian scenes. In 1993 Mignone directed the band New Order in a live performance of their song

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for

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in Venice Beach, California. It was broadcast via satellite to the United Kingdom as part of an episode of the hit TV series Baywatch, featuring David Hasselhoff and various background actors and bikini-clad actresses dancing and playing on the beach. In addition to hard rock and heavy metal artists, Mignone has also directed hit videos for alternative music artists such as Toadies, Tonic,

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, Lit, and others. He has directed hip hop and urban music videos for artists such as

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, and Rahsaan Patterson. Mignone's videos are characterized by strong narrative conceptual storylines, elaborate and distinct color-correction palettes, and many times include feature film actors in lead roles, including

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, Denise Richards,

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from the cult film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,

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, and Navi Rawat. Mignone lives and works in Los Angeles, and continues directing feature films and music videos. Recent videos include ''Existo Vulgore'' for

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, ''Bullet Proof Heart'' for Miss Derringer featuring vocalist and acclaimed Los Angeles artist Elizabeth McGrath, the MTV #1 Buzz Clip video ''Lay Me Down'' for the Dirty Heads featuring vocalist Rome from the band

Sublime With Rome Sublime with Rome was a band that began as a musical collaboration between former Sublime (band), Sublime members Eric Wilson (bassist), Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, and singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. Ramirez began performing with Gaugh and W ...

, and ''Wings Of Feathers And Wax'' for American heavy metal supergroup Killer Be Killed featuring

/ex-

vocalist and guitarist

Max Cavalera Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera (; born 4 August 1969) is a Brazilian musician. He co-founded the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 with his brother Igor Cavalera, and was the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist unti ...

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co-vocalist and guitarist Greg Puciato,

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bassist and co-vocalist Troy Sanders and former the Mars Volta drummer Dave Elitch. Mignone has also directed numerous artists during live concerts such as

's Rock Am Ring, Ozzfest, Vans Warped Tour, Tattoo The Earth, and Dynamo Open Air festivals.

Filmography

*1998/2000: ''After Dark (Type O Negative album), After Dark'' (

VHS/DVD) *2003: ''Ozzfest US Live Concert Tour'' *2005: '' Slipknot Rock am Ring Europe Concert Tour'' *2009: ''

Live Confrontation'' *2010: '' On the Doll'' *2011: ''Slipknot Welcome to Our Neighborhood'' feat. Wait & Bleed, Surfacing, and Spit It Out *2016: ''The Deuce'' (TV series) *2017: ''American Whore'' (TV series) *2019: ''Splash the Glass'' (streaming series) *2022: ''The Latin From Manhattan'' (streaming series) *2024: ''Queen Of Manhattan '' (feature film)

References

External links

* * {{authority control Film production companies of the United States