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Adapted and directed by Maggie Levin. Based on the novel by Clay McLeod Chapman. Produced by Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Vince Cheng at Crooked Highway. In development at Sony Screen Gems.

After losing his hands in a horrific accident, Boyd Grayson must learn to trust the one person he despises most… his mother. It is through her immense family fortune that Jacqueline Grayson can rebuild her son. Now that she has him exactly where she wants him, she’ll try to take the one thing her ga...

Monkeypaw presents Quiet Part Loud, a fictional horror podcast series with immersive sound design. Featuring Tracy Letts, Arian Moayed, Christina Hendricks, Taran Killam and more! Rick Egan, a fear-mongering, right-wing radio host who loses his platform in the wake of 9/11 for spreading xenophobic r...

Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raul. However, Raul cannot see them so Kat helps Wendell and Wild to help him. Directed by Henry Selick, from a script by Selick and Jordan Pe...

​Unknown is a psychological horror anthology series that plunges into the corners of the American landscape, probing the intersection of folklore and our bloody history of true crime. Season one centers around an estranged brother and sister, who return to the Texas Killing Fields, only to encounter...

2150 A.D. The Essex, a deep space fishing vessel for industry giant, AmberCorp, is ready to make its final harvest of the season. The ship brushes with a rare creature, mammoth in size and highly territorial. Could this be the same leviathan that killed Richard and Owen's father? To make matters wor...

In the 70s, Martin Stockdotter is an experimental musician tasked with making a Halloween sound effect album. His ambition was to make it the scariest one ever recorded and he would succeed all too well. Part of Hulu's Huluween Film Festival. Directed by Rodney Ascher. Based upon a story by Clay McL...

A sleazy entrepreneur tries to make love and money out of the back of his van in downtown L.A. Boasting over 40 half-hour original shows, winner of three NRC Radio Awards for best Audio Dramas that “push the state of the art to the next level” (Slate Magazine), Tales from Beyond the Pale is the dari...

World Premiere at 2015 SXSW FIlm Festival The Boy is an intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath as he first discovers his taste for killing. Set in an ailing motel on a desolate stretch of Southern highway, The Boy celebrates the dark imagination of children left to their own devices and the urg...

Chiller presents the next installment in its Chilling Visions anthology film series, Chilling Visions: 5 States of Fear. The film comprises five shorts inspired by five basic human fears, with each short set in a specific location across five different U.S. states. The five short films are: - Ego De...

Glass Eye Pix, the fiercely independent film company behind STAKE LAND, THE INNKEEPERS and I SELL THE DEAD, in association with Clay McLeod Chapman’s FEAR-MONGERS: FIRESIDE CHATS ABOUT HORROR FILMS, is taking its successful audio dramas TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE out of the studio and onto the stage...

(2013) New York City. 1920. A legless beggar pleads with the oncoming foot-traffic for spare change. Barely a nickel comes his way. But what these pedestrians don’t know is—this deformed derelict at their heels is none other than Blizzard, kingpin to the seedy underbelly of the Lower East Side. With...

Meet 9-year-old Ted Henley—budding motel manager, and roadkill entrepreneur. Ted lives with his father in their run down motel on a desolate stretch of road. He earns his tiny allowance by collecting the roadkill that litters the highway. But when the motel cash register starts to run dry, Ted decid...

(2009) One actress plays three women drawn together in the grim aftermath of a high school shooting—the mother of the shooter (staph infection), one of the shooter's victims (early release), and the mother of that victim (keynote speaker). It is a deep exploration of the lives of three women that, ...

(2011) SCKBSTD is a new American musical featuring music & lyrics by Bruce Hornsby. Lyrics by Chip deMatteo. Book by Clay McLeod Chapman. Directed by John Rando. Coverage for SCKBSTD: “Beyond Whiskers and Kittens,” NY Times article

Dixon Place, New York City. 2010 to 2012. Everybody has a horror movie that scared the bejesus out of them as a kid. Every actor has one, too. Fear-Mongers: Fireside Chats about Horror Films enlists top-shelf artists to pay homage to their guiltiest pleasures: horror movies. Our guest lecturers will...

(2008) Two Americans are bound and blindfolded in a war-torn country. Facing an uncertain fate, they take refuge in music, memory and each other in this unconventional new indie-rock musical. Hostage Song is the new indie-rock musical developed by a powerhouse combo of downtown favorites: playwright...

(2006) In Junta High, Clay McLeod Chapman crafts a Sweet Valley-styled high school for terrorists where cheerleaders double as suicide bombers and guidance counselors are taken hostage by the A/V club. Holy causes worth dying for galvanize school spirits, blood is shed on the football field every Fr...

Official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, “Late Bloomer” is a humorous short film about a 7th grade sexual education class gone horribly wrong. Loosely based on the dark tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Written by Clay McLeod Chapman. Directed by Craig Macneill. Selected festival highlights: Of...

(2005) The Pumpkin Pie Show in: the cardiac shadow Written by Clay McLeod Chapman Music by Joshua Camp and Michael Hearst (of One Ring Zero) Choreography by Blair Bodie Lighting design by: Sabrina Braswell Performed by: Hannah Bos, Hanna Cheek, Alexa Scott-Flaherty, Jordan Simmons, and Paul Thureen ...

(2005) The original text for Volume of Smoke is available online at Blackbird Journal: http://bit.ly/H2FB2s Volume of Smoke was an original commissioned work for The Firehouse Theater (Carol Piersol, Artistic Director) in Richmond, Virginia. Premiere: February 2005. Directed by Isaac Butler and Chap...

(1996-present) Celebrating its second decade of performances, the Pumpkin Pie Show is a literary fist in the face. Part storytelling session, part boxing match, part shamanistic ritual, the Pumpkin Pie Show has established itself as an all-points artistic hodgepodge of theatre and literature. We pic...