SCREATURES is a feature length micro budget ($5,000) horror film. Probably my favorite of all my films. Some background: I shot it in the haunted Kansas plains-- abandoned houses, The Kansas State Mental Institute (which was only a block from where I grew up). SCREATURES is extremely autobiographical. My first memory: my dad bandages the bleeding head of a woman that escaped from the asylum and jumped off the bridge into the sewage and rocky ravine in front of our home. Most of the basement shots in SCREATURES came from the crawl spaces and access tunnels below the actual asylum. I also spent several months receiving outpatient counseling there after my brother was electrocuted, died for 30 minutes and then was brought back to life by my father's "laying on of hands". We lived where all the city sewers drained into the Kansas river. SCREATURES is the result of hundreds of hours of roadtrips across Kansas, sneaking into abandoned houses, cemeteries, and potato cellars, filming famous Satanic Stull Kansas and the nearby shriveled giant catfish heads, and leaning towers/grain silos. My mom plays the nurse, my new wife (at the time) plays Joan. My electrocuted brother, Trenton plays Brace Boy. I play Trickler and Hazard. It is a VERY strange film, but in a sense its all true. OTHER DESCRIPTORS: loneliness freaky weird "micro cinema" "experimental film" insane "insane asylum" "civil defense" trepanning trepan "castration anxiety" weird nightmarish doctor "mad doctor" madhouse asylum "mental institution" institutionalized perverts pervert pedophilia pedophile pedophile pedofilia pedophilia"conspiracy theories" lobotomies lobotomized "brain damage" insanity nightmares "paranoid theories" paranoia "men in black" cia fbi langley "area 51" "brain surgery" "dr. freeman" leucotome pre-frontal VA psychiatrist psychiatry "mental health counseling" counselor councillor "crazy people" insanity schizophrenia schitzo "split personality" "dual personality" escapism repression "child abuse" molestation "mind fuck"