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PR*CK!
By Todd Bronson
An isolated desert community struggles to survive a devastating onslaught of mutant cacti. It’s William Castle meets Robert Rodriquez.
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My name is Todd Bronson and I’ve written an eye-popping comedy/ horror, “PRCK!” It won best feature script at The Independent Horror Movie Awards, a finalist at 13Horror.com, an award winner at International Horror Hotel, a quarter finalist at Austin, and finalist at Zed Fest. Just this year it has won or placed at over six genre festivals.
“PRCK!” - An isolated desert community struggles to survive a devastating onslaught of mutant cacti.
It’s William Castle meets Robert Rodriquez. It’s a “Stranger Things” grindhouse twist.
After the radioactive death of his mother, Tender travels back to his desert hometown and discovers his mother was more than a trusted doctor, she was a government mole. For years, she studied the contamination of nuclear fallout on the small community due to nearby atomic bomb testing.
“PRCK!” - The Cold War was never this bloody!
When Tender was eight, his Shoshone friend captured a roly-poly cholla cactus as a pet. When it appeared the pet was dying, he rushed it to Tender’s mother to examine. After a scary dissection, the doctor contacted her ex-boyfriend/botanist to investigate the mutated, carnivorous cacti. Not only was Tender’s mother hiding as a government mole, she hid the botanist was Tender’s father. When the Indian boy guided the botanist onto the test site to observe the deadly patch of cholla, an atomic explosion blew Tender’s father into it. The Bigfoot size cactus mutated with Tender’s father. Unbeknownst to Tender, his mother (ravaged with guilt and love) fed the beast raw meat until she died.
“PRCK!” - A bloody love story!
Now (early 80’s), Tender is back and his father has uprooted himself in search of his lost love. The prickly monster and its troop of blood sucking, hypodermic, mini-monsters ravage a trail of bloodshed back to town. As the beast stalks closer to town, a crass Cold War general is determined to hunt it down. However, Tender discovers the father, he never knew, is a monster.
“PRCK!” - A terrifying family film!
Tender races to save his father from the relentless, scorched-earth general who is a flamethrower away from destroying his daddy. The beast breaks into Tender’s childhood home and finds his long lost son. Tender communicates with his father and reveals the death of his mother. The father and son try to bond, but it’s prickly. However, General Scatterfield sniffs him out and the army surrounds the house. As Tender negotiates his father’s release, it is apparent the general seeks extermination (even for Tender). His father, fearing for Tender’s safety, unleashes a devastating, roly-poly army of pokies.
“PRCK!” - No one is safe from a poke in the ribs!
However, Tender captures the moment by shoving the general into the beast’s prickly limbs. As Tender and his Indian friend haul his father safely toward Death Valley, his guilt-ridden friend rises up and brings a horrifying end to the monster he helped create.
“PR*CK!” - Proof that creature features are not extinct!
If you would like to read the script, please contact me.
PR*CK!
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