Floor (Dan Glenn) laments his recent fang holes--and consequent damnation--in Thomas Jason Davis' Scab.
Ajay (Sean Galuszka) decides where next to bite his current meal (Adult Film Star Cody Cash) in Thomas Jason Davis' Scab.
Ajay (Sean Galuszka) regrets his latest kill in Thomas Jason Davis' Scab.
Teague (Richard Alan Brown) questions Floor's (Dan Glenn) intentions in Thomas Jason Davis' Scab.
Ajay (Sean Galuszka), Teague (Richard Alan Brown), and Floor (Dan Glenn) from Thomas Jason Davis' Scab.
Director Thomas Jason Davis and cinematographer Jeff Gatesman confer on the set of Thomas Jason Davis' Scab.

Cast bios for Sean Galuska (Ajay), Natalie Avital (Briar), Richard Alan Brown (Teague), Dan Glenn (Floor), Susan Spano (Sarah), Josh Evans (Kelvin), and Linda Pine (Tia).

Filmmaker bios for Thomas Jason Davis (writer/director), Arik Ben Treston (producer), and Randall Walk (producer).

LOGLINE [the one-liner]: When a trick turns Ajay into a vampire, he desperately wants to convince his friends to become bloodsuckers too, or kill 'em trying.

SYNOPSIS [199 words]: West Hollywood. 2:40 AM. Ajay and a one-night stand swap spit. But instead of using Ajay's hole, the one-night stand makes new ones of his own. Left with a bug no antibiotic can quell, Ajay slips off the radar and into a sloppy quest for food. After several days of incommunicado, Teague (the requisite geek who unrequitedly loves Ajay) and Floor (the straight-guy friend), check in on Ajay. Ajay looks like warmed-over death. Ajay uses Teague's sympathy to drag him and Floor to Las Vegas...[cont'd]

SYNOPSIS [493 words]: West Hollywood. 2:40 AM. Ajay and a muscle-endowed one-night stand swap spit in Ajay's bedroom. But instead of using Ajay's hole, the one-night stand is intent on making new ones of his own. Ajay is left with a bug no antibiotic can quell. Ajay slips off the radar and into a sloppy quest for his own victims. After several days of incommunicado, Teague (the requisite geek who unrequitedly loves Ajay) and Floor (the straight-guy friend), check in on Ajay. They find him gray and gaunt and the worse for wear. Ajay exploits the opportunity and uses Teague's sympathy to drag him and Floor to the outskirts of Las Vegas (and away from his blood-soaked kills)...[cont'd]


A "gay" movie where no one struggles with coming out or agonizes over their sexuality? A horror movie where the entire main cast is still alive and kicking minutes before the final credits roll? And a fun, hip ride of a movie where characters are forced to examine and understand their feelings for one another in the face of ever more harrowing and changing circumstances? These are only a few of the unconventional attributes that inspired writer/director Thomas Jason Davis and attracted producers Arik Ben Treston and Randall Walk to the decidedly different gay vampire movie Scab...[cont'd]

Aside from killing people and drinking their blood, what does vampirism ultimately make Ajay do? In my twisted little geek-boy fantasy, the lusted-for slut-boy Ajay finally admits that he loves the geek. It's like Sixteen Candles with cockrings. Say Anything with fangs and lube and a touch more self-loathing.

Nothing short of a total derailment would make Ajay stop, reassess, and change his mind. Vampirism isn't a change for the better, nor is it a change for the worse. It's simply the catalyst that causes Ajay to seek the shift from club-boy to boyfriend. Vampirism, with all its deliciously haunting imagery and twisted blood-soaked possibilities, becomes a thematic means to an end. Perhaps Teague could have forgotten Ajay's birthday, but that already happened to Samantha Baker 20 years ago...[cont'd]