It’s 1950-something and it looks like it. Interior. A smoky club, where a never-quite-made-it starlet sips on a dirty martini. A tall stranger flatters his way into her trust. Next step – an empty sound stage for a late night screen test. It’s the last picture for Scarlett May (ALEXANDRA HOLDEN) and this time she’s the star. Too bad it’s a role to die for.

Flash forward some half-century later. Same town. Same world. Though mere blocks from the star-studded sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard, it is light years from the Big Time.

Meet recent arrival, Adam Waltz (ED FURLONG), a lovelorn Virginia transplant. Before today, the horror movie fan boy could only dream of rubbing elbows with his idols – those obscure actors who populate the posters on the walls within his dingy bachelor pad.

When studio head Connor Pritchett (LANCE HENRIKSEN) handpicks him for a walk-on role in his latest B-movie PIRATE WENCH, starring reigning Scream Queen Cassie Blue (TIFFANY SHEPIS), Adam is convinced he’s on the fast track to "industry" success.

That dream begins to unravel when Adam finds himself a suspect in the bloody murder of one of the film’s stars.

Is it true there’s no such thing as bad publicity? Or is it a case of belated bad karma for Spotlight National Films? Will the ‘reel’ killer be nabbed?

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