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