Writer/director Richard Bates Jr. has just finished wrapping up his third feature, Trash Fire, a psychological horror comedy described as a combination of Psycho and Harold and Maude.
Angela Trimbur
Trash Fire deals with the fear of having to move back home again. It is a deeply, darkly comedic take on the traditional psychological horror film.
After the death of her mother, an ’80s scream queen, a girl and her friends find themselves transported back in time and into her mother’s most famous horror movie.
Tells the story of 2 foreign exchange students in the USA who are graduating high school and have one night left in the country before heading back to the UK – one night that presents them with their last chance to score with the girls of their dreams.
Logline: Story follows a girl grieving the loss of her mother, who was a scream queen in the 1980s. When she and her friends are mysteriously sucked into the world of her mother’s most famous horror movie, Max is reunited with her mom and must face the pic’s crazed killer.
