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Celebrating their 1-year anniversary, boyfriends Warren and Trip take a scenic journey across the US Southwest.  When Trip is bitten by an unknown creature and mysteriously begins to transform,
absolutely no relationship secrets will be held back.
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accolades

​2020 FINALIST @ ISA Virtual Pitch Challenge
2020 FINALIST: TOP UNPRODUCED FEATURE SCRIPTS @ FilmQuest
2020 ​FINALIST @ NOLA Horror Film Festival
2020 HORROR FINALIST @ Table Read My Screenplay
2020 QUARTER-FINALIST @ Page Turner Genre Competition
2020 SEMI-FINALIST @ Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival

hey, shannon!

In what has become a tradition in most of my scripts, ​​I have a character named "Shannon" within the story.  ​In TRIP, "Shannon" is a sassy waitress who serves Trip and Warren in a small-town burger joint.

press

ISA's "The Five Pillars of a Successful Pitch"
​Gruesome Magazine Announces FilmQuest 2020 Line-Up
Horror Fuel Announces FilmQuest 2020 Line-Up
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video pitch

A 90-second video pitch for TRIP.
FilmQuest 2020 art, ​highlighting the Top 50 Feature Screenplay Finalists, including "TRIP"!

basics

  • GENRES: Horror / LGBTQ
  • SUB-GENRES: Road Trip / Body Horror / Lovecraft
  • DRAFTS:  Six (6) completed drafts
  • LENGTH:  Feature-length
  • NUMBER: TRIP is my 12th feature spec script
  • PAGE COUNT:  Ninety-seven (97) pages
  • PROTECTION: WGA; West registered
  • SCRIPT EDITOR / STORY CONSULTANT: Jonna Jackson
  • BEGINNINGS: Writing began on 12.08.19.
  • PROBABLE MPAA RATING: NC-17
  • WARNINGS: Contains sexually explicit description/dialogue​
  • INSPIRATIONS:  Inspired by frequent road trips with my other half, along the mostly un-traveled desert roads of the US Southwest
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reading

A 1st reading was held in April 2020.
The Cast: Randy Frank, Christina Harris, ​Ryan Newton Harris,
​Scott Harris, Michael Klug, Joel Liestman, Steve Newman.

feedback

​From producer/writer Jay Scott Goldberg:
"What a crazy ride!"
From Slamdance:
​"The script draws a lot of force from its explicit sexual scenes, mainly when they get woven with allusions to monsters that evoke the unconscious of the main characters."
​From filmmaker Monte Light:
​"I think it has the potential to be the ultimate queer midnight monster movie."