"A buddy cross-country road-trip becomes unhinged when our heroes learn one of their-own has made a faustian deal with the devil."
Story and Screenplay by David M. O'Neill
Era:
Contemporary
Locations
Various, U.S.
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Budgets
Medium
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Genre
Action & Adventure, Action Comedy, Swashbucklers, Comedy, Comedy Thriller, Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Comedy
Logline
A group of friends' high school reunion road trip takes a sour turn when one of them dies, and even sourer when another friend digs up the corpse and proceeds with the road trip.
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Strengths:
The script's conceit and/or its elaborate conceptualizing is perhaps its biggest strength in its current form. To pitch it combines the zany world of something like LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, along with this tongue-in-cheek supernatural genre element like GHOSTBUSTERS, all with the sort of sense of humor of something like THE HANGOVER. This bizarre zaniness never quite seems to stop, making fun of everything from the city of Reno to Highway Patrolmen and something as oddly specific as a monstrous Laughlin, NV waitress. This sort of unlikely sense of humor combined with a more fantastic conceit will certainly separate this script from the glut out there. Some of the set pieces are truly memorable, whether it's Von going to a strip club... only to climb on stage to dance himself, or the gang popping open the car's trunk so their friend's corpse can witness the more scenic attractions they pass as they drive. At its core the script has a beating heart; a group of friends that were so tight in high school they can't help but want to recapture some of that glory, and in attempting that, discover what was meaningful in the first place. While this may sound like a Hallmark card, this kind of emotional takeaway beneath all the rest of the strip clubs and the 60 foot tall waitress monsters will afford the story some kind of staying power.
