MY MONSTER
Troy Athens, a venomous movie star, destroys not only the vestiges of a once-thriving film career but also his marriage when he storms off the set of his wife Kelly’s science fiction film and wrecks his car in rural Texas. Troy has abused the cast and crew so thoroughly that the makeup artist has sprayed sealant of his prosthetics. So Troy, rendered mute and helpless in his alien costume – complete with enormous teeth and claws – wanders into the wilderness looking for help.
When three orphaned siblings, Savannah, Oz and Clyde, come across the masked thespian in their junkyard playground, they knock out and hogtie what they think is the Curtis Creek Monster that they’ve been hearing rumors about since they can remember. Desperate to escape their perilous foster environment, the kids embark on a journey to a local conspiracy wacko in an attempt to sell their alien to the CIA.
But before the kids can complete their goal, the murderous junkyard owner Lindell kidnaps Oz in an attempt to retrieve some important stolen merchandise. When Savannah and Clyde conspire to free their brother, Troy risks his life to help rescue the youthful trio from certain doom.
My Monster is a story of the power of imagination and redemption. Its themes of wish fulfillment will appeal to children while its strong character arc and love story will reach the hearts of the adults in the audience. In the tradition of family classics like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, The Goonies, and My Dog Skip. My Monster’s commercial allure comes from its spectacle, humor, and high-stakes suspense while its moral core harkens back to the enduring classic To Kill a Mockingbird.
CHOCTAW RIDGE
LOGLINE: When Maddie Fox releases her young daughter from a mental institution she must flee across the country with her only ally, an inmate who thinks he’s a CIA agent.
SYNOPSIS: Twelve months ago, Maddie Fox’s husband kidnapped their 8-year-old daughter, Hannah. The woman has finally tracked the girl down, only to discover she's imprisoned in Springwood, a high security mental institution. What's worse, Hannah is aphasic and accused of killing her father.
Maddie is desperate to get the child released into her custody, but Springwood’s director, citing legal and medical issues, refuses. When one of the asylum’s inmates, George Ryerson, volunteers to help Maddie free Hannah, she has no choice but to accept his offer.
However, there is a catch, or two catches. The man thinks he's a CIA agent... and he wants to come along.
While our heroes release the mute child in the middle of the night, three of Springwood's nurses suddenly produce silenced semi-automatics and start firing. A bizarre odyssey begins. Maddie and her group as they’re forced to flee across the country, pursued by relentless forces determined to capture Hannah for their own purposes. The chase ends in the Kiamichi Mountains of Southern Oklahoma, the rugged location where Hannah was found and her father was killed.
Will Maddie save her child and solve the mystery of her husband’s death? Or will she lose all that matters to her?
COFFIN MAKERS
LOGLINE: A young woman visits a small town where a family of “Coffin Makers” is never short of business. They create new customers the old-fashioned way – they kill them.
SYNOPSIS: We meet MICKEY O’HARA, a pretty young woman in her late teens, as she hitchhikes through dark, wooded country one quiet night. When a BLACK CADILLAC HEARSE drives up out of the murk, Mickey hitches a ride.
But the hearse’s driver, SCHLOM, is a mountain of a man with the pallor of a corpse and a personality to match. And in the back of the hearse is a coffin, and inside that coffin are two bodies --one dead and one alive.
Schlom drives Mickey to SCHINDLERSTADT, a small town owned by one family and devoted to only one purpose --- making coffins. But this “coffin capital of the world” appears to be uninhabited. There’s not a soul visible on the berg’s single, dark street.
In the company’s “showroom,” a chamber filled with every style of coffin and casket, Mickey meets GARMAN SCHINDLER and his daughter DAMARIS. Elegant and refined people, they enjoy discussing a family history that dates back to the I880’s. “You must visit our factory,” Garman insists as he offers Mickey a glass of Remy Martin. “You’d be amazed at what we can accomplish.”
But Mickey is unable to respond. As the glass of doped brandy slips from her fingers, she slumps to the floor. Mickey has been given, well, a mickey.
Our heroine awakes to find herself in what appears to be a perfectly normal, single-family home. Only this “house” is buried twenty feet underground with bricked up windows and doors, a unique prison for two teenaged girls, RITA and KRYSTAL, and a couple of young guys, TERRY and IRWIN. Schlom captured them all, and there were other kids living down here before they all arrived -- but the monster man took them away.
Mickey immediately springs into action, and finds a novel way to free them. Unfortunately, a high, electric fence surrounds the town, and the kids find themselves trapped in Schindlerstadt.
As the giant Schlom pursues them, our heroes soon learn the Schindlers are not your usual mass murderers. They're not even human. They're creatures of the night, werewolves. But they want to pass as ordinary people so they tan their victims' hides for use as human disguises.
Will Mickey and her new friends survive the night? Will they escape being skinned alive in the Schindler's factory? Will we ever learn Mickey’s terrible secret?
To find the answers to these questions, you must visit Schindlerstadt, the coffin capital of the world. If you have the courage!
DARK HALO
LOGLINE: A vicious gang of bandits invades a bank run by and for vampires.
SYNOPSIS: The Trey Clay gang is the most dangerous band of bandits in the country. They’ve taken down more banks and killed more people than Bonnie and Clyde. When they invade a sleepy little branch of the DHB, or Dunkle Heilgenschein Banc (Dark Halo in English) in an isolated town, they think this will be one of their easiest scores.
However, the DHB is not your usual financial institution. For one thing, it’s open all night. For another, its customers are few and far between.
Convinced the DHB is a drug bank, the gang invades it one night to find a staff of three and a single customer, none of whom seem very concerned about the robbery. In fact, these people are downright bored.
Nonetheless, TREY CLAY and his people quickly take over, looting the cash drawers and breaking into the vault to find very little money but rows of strange deposit boxes. Triangular shaped. Refrigerated. Filled with bags of blood suspended on steel hooks.
Trey and his people quickly learn they’ve taken down a blood bank operated by and for vampires... very powerful, rich vampires that quickly surround the facility with a strike team. They tell the robbers to leave and they won’t be harmed, but it can’t be that simple. Not when the single customer in the bank has ideas of her own – ideas that could lead to the destruction of the human race.
In an ironic turn, the desperate bandits trapped inside the DHB must work with its staff to save the world. It’s Dog Day Afternoon meets War of the Worlds, and the banking business will never be the same.
JUDGE ICE
LOGLINE: A young woman is trapped in a drug lab with a vicious band of cutthroats and the bloodthirsty ghost of Judge Ice, a 19th Century Warlock.
SYNOPSIS: It's dark night in 1884 when a torch-wielding mob pursues a nineteen-year old girl through a thick and unfriendly forest. Taking cover behind a STONE WELL, young CALLIE REISER barely escapes her pursuers. But before she can flee, JUDGE ICE, a horrible figure with sheet white hair, grabs her in an iron grip. Saying her blood will bring forth the Devil, he tries to slash Callie’s throat. But before he can strike she pushes him, screaming, down the well which is when Callie wakes out of the same nightmare she’s had every night of her life. But as she works through another rough day in a modern day city, it appears her terrible dreams are about to become reality. Through a series of bizarre circumstances, she ends up in Brahma City, a huge drug lab headquartered in an isolated warehouse. Trapped in the building, she has nowhere to go but down. Into the basement.
Where she finds an ancient STONE WELL. When one of the drug dealers attacks her, a drop of Callie’s blood cascades down into that well. It strikes the exposed bone of a SKELETAL HAND. The bones CHANGE. Muscle and skin begin to GATHER...
... While above, the dealer is about to rape Callie. Which is when JUDGE ICE leaps out of the well, BULLWHIP in hand. He slashes the dealer to death, then grins at a shocked Callie. “We have unfinished business, daughter.”
Callie barely manages to escape, and as she flees through the drug lab, the Judge relentlessly pursues her. He cuts a bloody swath through the gang of cutthroats that make up the staff of the lab. He kills all comers. He out terminates the Terminator.
Callie is doomed, and so is the world if the Judge gets his way. Because the spell he will enchant over her lifeless, bloody body will bring forth Armageddon.
Can Callie destroy her invincible and demonic great, great, grandfather? Can she save the world? The answers to these questions can only be found in JUDGE ICE.
MUTANT SNAKEOID ZOMBIE BIKERS
LOGLINE: It's Dawn of the Dead meets the Hell's Angels when a mutated snake infects a biker gang, transforming them into Mutant Snakeoid Zombie Bikers!
SYNOPSIS: A frustrated and overwhelmed young woman, DARBY WILKINS, leaves her husband and kids to drive into the country to clear her head. When she stops at The Yellow Rose, an isolated bar in the middle of nowhere, she meets a handful of bored, lost people who are killing an evening -- but the killing doesn't stop there. Unluckily for them all, a pair of empty-ended snake handlers arrives in a van containing a high-tech cage. In that cage is a large, experimental rattlesnake dubbed MUTATION 12, which bites one of its handlers and escapes.
Unfortunately the reptile’s virulent venom is not only deadly; it’s a source of a disease that could destroy humanity. Anyone the snake bites dies, but then they come back to life as an inhuman, Mutant Snakeoid Zombie with horrific distended faces and lethal fangs. The afflicted handler spreads the disease to an entire biker gang, which then surrounds and attacks The Yellow Rose.
Darby draws on levels of courage she never knew she had to lead the bar's defense against the Snakeoids. They must fight off attack after attack with pitiful weapons such as pool cues, baseball bats, and Everclear Molotovs. In the course of the story, Darby takes charge of the young daughter of a prostitute the Snakeoids destroy. Darby becomes the child’s protector and battles through the horrific night to save her.
Eventually, the survivors break out of the bar and drive off in an old bus that has been converted into a mobile home. Our story climaxes with a Mad Max style chase between the bus and the Mutant Snakeoid Zombie Biker Gang that’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.
