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Pavement Studios wrapped primary shooting on the feature film Squatter Teacher Haters, a dark comedy about three friends who take refuge in an abandoned lake house and plot the murder of their high school teacher. Other current film projects include (untitled), series of real-life teenage stories about growing up in modern suburban hell in an as-yet 'untitled' generation; The Pigeon Kickers, a series of short films about degenerate youth in New York City; Return of the Disco Zombies, a horror movie about five college students trapped on an island with zombies reincarnate from a 1970's industrial disaster; and Neo-Mania, a death-metal horror roadtrip epic based on the story of Lautreamont's Maldoror written in collaboration with novelist Travis Jeppesen.












What happens when three teenage boys find an abandoned lake cabin and consume an extraordinary amount of hallucinagenic mushrooms and crystal meth while swimming in a polluted lake contaminated from a toxic chemical spill? They plot the murder of their high school teacher, obviously! Starring Zach Cregger, Hays Holladay and Darren Trumeter, Squatter Teacher Haters is a highly theatrical dark comedy co-written and co-directed by the actors and producer in an absurd shoot in a deserted 1950's cabin on Lake Norman, NC during the summer of 2003. The film also features exciting footage of a dead beaver and vintage 16mm films about industrial pollution symbolizing the decay of our youth's moral fabric.






Neo-Mania is the story of three teenage boys who discover the vampire text Les Chants de Maldoror, published in 1870 by Lautreamont. A surreal and macabre account of a man 'born evil' who rebels against society and declares war on God and Mankind, Maldoror represents the ultimate act of rebellion, a violent and blasphemous protest in revolt against the miserable state of the human condition. The three teenage boys, outcast and disenfranchised from their small town in upstate New York, become increasingly obsessed with the text and decide to take a road trip to New Orleans in a sort of pilgrimage in search of the 'ghost of Maldoror'. Along the way, they encounter a 16-year old Southern boy, a rebellious youth with psychic visions named Taylor, who changes the course of their road trip and ultimately alters their collective destiny. During a 72-hour drug-fueled adventure, the boys embark on a psychological (and ultimately spiritual) journey to express their untenable frustration and alienation from contemporary society.






On September 15, 1978, an accident in Lab 257 on Plum Island resulted in the airborne release of bio-toxins through the lab's faulty filtration system into the atmosphere just a few miles from mainland Long Island, New York. Within 72 hours, a catastraphic 'cycle of transmission' would be underway, with viral replication taking place within a herd of sheep; a mosquito biting an infected host among the herd; then transferring the virulent blood to a seagull as well as a construction engineer working nearby on the island, who returns on the evening ferry back to Orient Point. By the end of the week, six people had become infected by an unknown viral strain which attacks the brain stem and degenerates the body into a state of necrosis. The outbreak would never be reported by CDC authorities or the press, and the incident would be remembered locally simply as the urban myth of the 'disco zombies.' Twenty five years later, a group of college students on spring break arrive at an abandoned resort inn off the coast of Long Island, when things turn gory as they are confronted with killer zombies from a second bio-toxic incident on Plum Island.







The Pigeon Kickers is a collection of short films documenting fringe youth culture shot on the streets of New York City. The project is based on a documentary series of real and fictional stories about degenerate teens that capture moments in the lives of a variety of absurd characters, many of which are based on actual events, stories and news accounts yet re-written into fictional characterizations.





Set in a suburban wasteland of middle America, (untitled) is an independent film that chronicles the lives of a close-knit group of high school friends during their last weekend of winter break. The story presents the lives of teenage kids living in the moment, not caring about anything or considering consequences. The plot doesn't force any big epiphanies, but rather introduces characters and then drops them off with a seeming randomness reminiscent of the high school experience, eventually circling back so that all of the stories get told simultaneously. The characters navigate effortlessly between the worlds of jocks, skateboarders, stoners, club kids, and rockers, always surrounded with beautiful girls and popular boys. These stories are real; the characters are real; and the film dares to ask the eternal, overwhelming adolescent question:

"So, what's next...?"



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