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logline

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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"
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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.
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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.
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feedback


​From producer/writer Jay Scott Goldberg:
"What a crazy ride!"

From Slamdance:
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"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:
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"I think it has the potential to be the ultimate queer midnight monster movie."

© 2009-2023 michael klug. all rights reserved.
  • home
  • screenwriter
    • comedy >
      • a. family portrait
      • he must smell my dog
      • rope-a-dope
      • Say Uncle!
      • tonight I shall lease your soul
    • drama >
      • one last build in Centralia
      • 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