The PITCH

The SLEEP OVER
The PITCH

TITLE:
“The Sleep Over”

TAG LINE:
Teenage, school girl, lesbian, vampires.

THE STORY
Eight High School girls; two nice, four bad, all over eighteen, have a pajama party/mixer (an excuse for young girls in underwear) at the local Rich Bitch’s house. Not knowing that a creepy tow truck driver is stalking them, the reader is left to assume that he is the killer in this homage to an eighties slasher flick, and just as he would normally begin braining teenagers left and right with his tire iron, the opposite happens. The six bad girls kill him, turns out that they’re vampires and the entire party was a trap to seduce the two good girls into becoming new members of the crew. One of the good girls joins up with them and the heroine of the story turns into Xena Warrior Princess and cuts a bloody path through them to get home.

CONCLUSION
“The Sleep Over” is the first in a series of full color graphic novels (or three issue mini-series, if preferred). The series takes inspiration from eighties horror films, and the great E.C. horror comics of yesteryear. The series plays on the expectations and archetypes of the horror genre and turns them on their ear always steering clear of the obvious and delivering something unexpected. It’s rendered in a light cartoon style that betrays its darker plot lines, and it has great dialogue and multi layered characters who do not go into the basement, do not run up the stairs when there is a perfectly good doorway three feet a way, and will never, ever trip and fall while running from the enemy.