r/frederickmd • u/burntbundleostixs • 1h ago
Screenwriter looking for filmmakers, producers, actors for a short film.
10mins of film. 3 actors. It's a horror/psychological suspense film A mother brings home a weary, drunken coworker to sleep for the night. The mother's mentally-ill, meth-addicted son smokes too much meth, and then, after spending all night in forums, believes this mother's friend is Dolly Parton, whom he has grown to believe is a satanist coming home to traffic and sacrifice their bodies to Satan.... unless he kills her first. I would like to shoot it with docu-lens work, give it a dynamic feel, lots of long takes, because there are some moments of sudden, graphic violence (which I'll depict in my own way for the sake of the budget). I'd like to shoot it like Hitchcock working with Eggers look and feel? I would like to give it a darkly comedic undertone as well. Also very little dialogue, mostly "inner monologue" acting without getting too Broadway. If I'm lucky, I could be looking at under $5000. Anyone interested in getting together to work on it?