Want some Skrillex with your slasher? You’re in luck. The hyper-caffeinated spectacle “DubWars: First Strike” mixes action snippets from more than 1,000 movies with a super cut of dubstep jams to build 15 jittery minutes of four-alarm chaos.

Set to the music of man-of-the-moment Skrillex, Deadmau5, and other dubstep fiends, “DubWars” (slightly graphic clip above) jump-cuts through a parade of screeching, sword-fighting chainsaw-wielding anti-heroes, cannons, dancing girls, autopsy packets, and beauty shots of a bug-eyed Nicolas Cage dressed as a priest evidently hell-bound for oblivion — and that’s just the first two minutes.

“DubWars” creator Josh Prescott got the idea for diving into dubstep’s badass, bass-heavy techno stylings when a fan left a comment on his Khamelon808 YouTube channel suggesting that he check out Skrillex.

“I have a special way of hearing music that translates almost immediately to visual images in my head and a lot of lights started going off in my brain when I heard my first Skrillex track,” Prescott told Wired.

The Colorado native, now living in Orange County, attracted Hollywood notice when he followed his Glitch Mob tribute clip “The Apple Tree” with the Tron-inspired “Re-Rezzed”, which was set to Daft Punk electronica. As someone who responds visually to music, dubstep provided a new optic-popping source.

“Dubstep lends itself to what I did here because of the unique sound it carries with it,” Prescott said. “Almost as if these tracks are a horror movie in audio format.”

Once Prescott got started by snatching snippets from Grammy-winner Skrillex, he drilled further into the dubstep realm and culled audio from Deadmau5, Bare, Messinian, Skism, Mark Instinct, Excision, Sluggo, Borgore and Dastik to underscore the barrage of 50,000 movie source clips.

The final product is 15-minute rapid-fire juggernaut that could easily replace espresso as the go-to pick-me-up. But ultimately Prescott hopes the clip can serve as more than just audio-visual adrenaline.

“I want people to see this clip and think, ‘Hey if this guy from the Midwest can work hard and live his dream, maybe I can too,'” he said.





Name-That-Movie-Clip Mashup Challenge

Think you can spot the source of the quick-cut clips in “DubWars”? Now is your chance to prove it. Wired is teaming up with Prescott for a name-that-clip contest. One randomly selected commenter who correctly identifies 50 movies excerpted in “DubWars” will get his or her own 15-second mashup music video crafted by Prescott, set to the music of any dubstep artist requested by the winner. Enter your movie titles in the “Add New Comment” section below.

Deadline to enter is 12:01 a.m. Pacific on March 26, 2011. The winner will be notified by e-mail or Twitter. Winners must live in the United States.

Note: If you do not have an e-mail address or Twitter handle associated with your Disqus login, you must include contact information in your comment to be eligible. Any winner who does not respond to Wired’s notification within 72 hours will forfeit the prize.