CHAD COSTEN
STORYTELLER
MY MOVIES
WENDY 1968 (2012)
SHORT FILM
GENRE: Period / Drama
TAG: Painful memories of her mother reveal the true nature of her much too late father.
LOG LINE: Set in the late 60's, George, a retired WW2 RCAF pilot, is paid a visit by the hippie daughter of his former P-51 Mustang Navigator… Or so he believes, until opens a letter that could change him forever.
WATCH IT NOW ON YOUTUBE: WENDY 1968
GAIA_TheSeries (2013-2014)
WEB-SERIES
GENRE: Sci-fi / Drama
TAG: If the Earth is to survive, we must not. The epoch of GAIA has come.
SYNOPSIS: GAIA, the spirit of the Earth, possesses an advanced humanoid robot that wanders in search of Jacob, a misanthropic Television Journalist. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between the darkly kindred spirits as GAIA begins to exterminate the “human problem” by use of our own technology. Eventually Jacob is the only soul that can save the human race, but having witnessed so many of the wrongs our species has done, the real question is... should he?
WATCH IT NOW ON YOUTUBE: GAIA_TheSeries
SHORT FILM
GENRE: DARK COMEDY
TAG: Death touches a little girl's soul by granting her fondest wish on Christmas Eve.
WATCH IT NOW ON iTUNES: Death Wish
FEATURE FILM CONCEPT PITCH:
Death grows tired of collecting souls, especially on Christmas Eve. He is constantly being reminded that he is the bad guy, and one fateful night he finally gives up. Because he is no longer doing his duty (directing souls), Santa Claus slips into a coma after a freak sleigh-ride accident and his near-death soul is sent the wrong direction! Seven-year-old Julie Jones must then convince Mr. Death to go on a quest to bring Santa back to the land of the living and together they embark on a harrowing journey through the nine realms of the underworld in a Dante’s Inferno version of Hell.
DEATH WISH (2010)
FEATURE FILM
GENRE: Sci-fi / Drama
TAG: A story about the end of the world as a result of humanity's fear of itself.
LOG LINE: Tom's past serves as a window into the future of all mankind, but what he begins to remember spells a dark fate from which no one can hide. Nothing will stop the memories and nothing can prevent:
The Coming.
WATCH IT NOW ON YOUTUBE: The Coming
THE COMING (2008)
LIFE ETERNAL (TBA)
FEATURE FILM - *IN DEVELOPMENT*
GENRE: Sci-fi / Drama
TAG: The truth lies somewhere between God and Science.
THE MUSIC OF ERIKA ZANN (TBA)
SERIES PILOT - *IN DEVELOPMENT*
GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Musical
TAG: Beyond the window lies not the tune of a lonesome night, but the song of true horror manifest.
LOG LINE: THE MUSIC OF ERIKA ZANN is a music-driven Lovecraftian story about finding a sense of purpose in a dispassionate universe.
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (2017)
PROOF-OF-CONCEPT VIDEO - © NINTENDO
GENRE: Fantasy / Adventure
DETAILS: This Proof-of-concept Video is part of a pitch package I am assembling to demonstrate what a live-action version of the Legend of Zelda series might look like. This is a personal fan-based project.
YOU CAN STILL WATCH OUR INDIEGOGO FUNDING CAMPAIGN VIDEO HERE: TLOZ - A Missing Link
THE LOOKING GLASS (2012)
SHORT FILM
GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Drama
TAG: A dark adventure begins with Alice in Wasteland.
LOG LINE: Alice finds herself fleeing the horrors of an apocalyptic Wasteland and is helped along her dark adventure by a pair of conjoined twin brothers, simply because Tweedle-Dum wants to make a friend.
WATCH IT NOW ON YOUTUBE: THE LOOKING GLASS
A2B (2005)
SHORT FILM
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
LOG LINE: Confronting inner demons and shattered reflections of self, this story is a darkly metaphoric tale that takes us quite literally from A to B and back again.
WATCH IT NOW ON YOUTUBE: A2B
WATCH IT NOW, RIGHT HERE!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. SCARUGI (2014)
SHORT FILM
GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Noir
TAG: Eddie Scarugi meets his fate on Christmas Eve, but "she" isn't quite the future he was hoping for.
SYNOPSIS: Eddie Scarugi is the king of the Chicago underworld. When he finally takes a bullet during a
prohibition raid, his soul is sent on a journey with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. But unlike the traditional Scrooge incarnation, mobsters tend to look fate in the face on a daily basis and
the only thing that will make Eddie change his ways is betrayal by his one true love.
WATCH IT NOW ON YOUTUBE: MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. SCARUGI
SHORT FILM
GENRE: Comedy / Mockumentary
TAG: SVEN is a story about a simple, small town kid who always gets left behind... on Earth.
LOG LINE: SVEN is just a simple, small town kid who is always left behind... even when his entire family is abducted by aliens. But, as his family explains, you have to "special" to take a ride on in UFO.
WATCH THE FILM HERE: SVEN
SVEN (2018)
MISTER SANDMAN (2018)
FEATURE FILM - *IN DEVELOPMENT*
GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Horror / Comedy
TAG: The only REAL nightmare is the one from which you never wake up.
LOG LINE: A mother-daughter road trip down memory lane turns into a nightmarish fight for survival as the stranded pair teams up with a group of former summer-camp misfits to confront Mister Sandman, the author of their greatest fears.
CHECK OUT OUR PROOF-OF-CONCEPT "TEASER SHORT" HERE: MISTER SANDMAN
OLIVIA'S GHOST (2019)
MISTER SANDMAN: Nightmares Manifest | Episode: 01
GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Horror
TAG: The only REAL nightmare is the one from which you never wake up.
LOG LINE: Olivia thought her time at Camp Somni would be a nightmare, but never expected to be so right. The 13-year-old faces her greatest fears when a boy with no name leads her into the woods, which hold the dark and sinister secrets of MISTER SANDMAN.
WATCH THE FILM ON CryptTV: OLIVIA'S GHOST
THE CHILD WITH NO NAME (2020)
MISTER SANDMAN: Nightmares Manifest | Episode: 02 (Coming in 2020)
GENRE: Dark Fantasy / Horror
TAG: The only REAL nightmare is the one from which you never wake up.
LOG LINE: TBA
WATCH THE NIGHTMARES MANIFEST TEASER TRAILER HERE: NIGHTMARES MANIFEST