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logline

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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
PROBABLE MPAA RATING: R
3K-WORD SYNOPSIS:  Available upon request
COVERFLY PROFILE
FILM FREEWAY PROFILE

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.





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  • home
  • screenwriter
    • comedy >
      • a. family portrait
      • he must smell my dog
      • rope-a-dope
      • Say Uncle!
      • tonight I shall lease your soul
    • drama >
      • the build
      • mariposa county
    • monster movies >
      • silver spoon
      • spider eaters
      • trip
      • You Can Never Go Home
    • psychological thriller >
      • clare, this is julia
      • harsh critic
      • my brother the serial killer
      • pactola
    • sci-fi >
      • lindsay's locker
      • structure
      • valet
    • supernatural horror >
      • bear
      • the costume people
      • don't go into the baby's room
      • ESP
      • furnish
      • unrequited love is for the birds
      • you came back
    • Zombie Horror >
      • a great yard
      • A Stench in the Nostrils of God
      • boys
      • christian demons
      • the french toast nine
      • george, frank and liza
      • me & simon baker
      • mom died
      • rest area
      • sid's apple
    • accolades
  • actor
    • sleeping ugly
    • résumé
  • filmmaker
    • chair
    • french toast
    • Immolation
    • ready to go
  • film critic
    • 5 star reviews
    • 4 / 4.5 star reviews
    • 3 / 3.5 star reviews
    • 2 / 2.5 star reviews
    • 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 star reviews
    • classic movie reviews
    • Tom Holland's Terror Time
    • marketing mentions
    • '80s horror ladies
    • '80s horror hunks
  • novelist
    • cheap therapy
    • island hunters
    • scratcher
    • What the House Saw
  • prose
    • the house up the street
    • blogs
    • klassics
    • writings
  • movie nerd
    • zombies >
      • concerns about the living dead
      • the nurse controversy
    • movie love
    • talking shop
    • stew of sin
    • fanatical
  • bio