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 A dead beaver |
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 feature film shot at a deserted cabin on Lake Norman, NC during the summer of 2003. The film features exciting footage of a dead beaver and vintage 16mm films about industrial pollution symbolizing the decay of our youth's moral fabric. |
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Zach Cregger as Simon, the stoner couch potato.
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Darren Trumeter as Ian, a neurotic basketcase who can't take a shit in the morning without a cigarrete.
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Hays Holladay as Elliott, the sensitive student who is expelled for calling his teacher a 'cunt' after she read his poem aloud in class and humiliated him.
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Gio Andrade as 'Andy', the high school drug dealer.
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Elliott awakened at night by Simon and Ian. They need his car to drive to an abandoned lake cabin.
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The boys explore the cabin. The lake had been evacuated in the 1970's following a toxic spill at a nearby chemical plant. Simon and Ian decide to move in rather than live at home.
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Simon and Ian getting ready for an afternoon swim in the lake.
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Andy and Elliott discussing whether Elliott is actually going swimming in the contaminated water. Elliott says, "It's just water. It's not like I'm gonna drink it or anything..."
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Ian and Elliott in the cabin, as Simon keeps interrupting their conversation.
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Plotting the murder of Elliott's teacher on crystal meth. The power has gone out, so they have to use candles to light the room.
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Photography copyright by Ned Schenck © 2004, Pavement Magazine, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. |