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When a violent suicide and possible smallpox outbreak quarantines Sunny inside upscale furniture store, FURNISH --
she must determine who among the equally trapped co-workers and customers is carrying --
not smallpox -- but a vengeful entity, desperate to continue killing.

accolades

  • 2016 Semi-Finalist @ FilmQuest
  • 2016 Official Selection @ Fright Night Film Festival
  • 2015 Semi-Finalist @ Shriekfest

additional info

While working on Furnish, two feature film ideas came to light, both centering around this furniture store, its customers and employees.
IDEA #2 (an Anthology):  Five separate stories told from the perspective of people who have never dealt with bad customer service or rude customers in the "Stepford" dimension which they inhabit.  But when someone from "another place" interrupts their tranquil existence, everyone has a terrible tale to tell.
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basics

GENRE:  Horror / Thriller / Mystery
PROTECTION:  WGA; West registered
LENGTH:  Feature-length
DRAFTS:  Nine (9) completed drafts
PAGE COUNT:  Ninety-eight (98) pages
NUMBER: This piece is my 7th feature spec screenplay
CIRCULATION: The piece is currently out to several producers
SCRIPT EDITOR / STORY CONSULTANT:  Jonna Jackson
ALTERNATIVE TITLE:  Dirty Souls
INSPIRATIONS:  Having worked for five years in Beverly Hills retail management, ​I left with plenty of tales to tell!
RECORDS:  Furnish is my quickest writing turnaround ever:
a 77-page 1st draft completed in only FOUR DAYS!

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quick pitch

A dash of 1998's Fallen with a smidge of Brian DePalma's Carrie thrown into the mix of your favorite head-scratching whodunit!
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table read

A 1st reading was held in early 2016.
The Cast:  Libby Baker, Michael Balin, Cameron Bender, Lee Boxleitner, Randy Frank, Rahvaunia Johnson, Monte Light, Maggie McCollester, Steve Newman, Candis Phlegm and Chris Smith.
{ SPECIAL GUEST READERS }
​Cerina Vincent (Eli Roth's Cabin Fever, Not Another Teen Movie) &
​Lynn Lowry (Romero's The Crazies and Cronenberg's Shivers).

hey, shannon!

In what has become a tradition in most of my scripts,
​​I have a character named "Shannon" within the story.
​​In FURNISH, "Shannon" is the furniture store's assistant manager.