From Michael Plumides, Producer of Nightbreed: Director’s Cut (Shout!Factory -2014) comes Ghost Trek, an uncensored supernatural-comic–horror series based on a paranormal reality show. Ghost Trek follows the Paranormal Underworld Detective Society (PUDS) as they investigate the haunts across the US and abroad between tanning beds, babes, body-building, and bong hits – all the while risking life and limb capturing the undead and unexplained on video. We’ve launched Ghost Trek on www.chill.com – the all-new episode, Ghost Trek: Goomba Body Snatchers Mortuary Lockdown (and Panel Show) dropping October 21st featuring the last performance of America’s sweetheart, Gia Allemand, The Bachelor star who died of a tragic suicide in August of 2013, which made national headlines.
The Ghost Trek series is not a cheap “parody” of paranormal reality shows, Admittedly, Ghost Trek pokes fun at all the ghost hunting programs (to the point where some people we target have blocked us on Twitter) but it’s much more than that. The Ghost Trek series is dark,witty, bombastic bunch of buffoonery written and directed by Michael Plumides; a high-brow meets low-brow satirical indictment of reality TV in general.
Ghost Trek is a lampoon of our American TV society – how the absurd has become the norm and how nonsense has become believable all within the confines of today’s so-called “unscripted television” – and Ghost Trek is specifically tailored to appeal to the late-night stoner and fan boy crowd with references only the truest geek will understand, in the vein of The Venture Bros. with the ‘bro humor’ of Entourage or Blue Mountain State without all the dick and fart jokes.
Plumides said of the new episode, “One thing I I noticed about the paranormal reality shows. They never hunt for the recently deceased so in the first episode, The Kinsey Report, I decided to write a ghost hunt based on the JonBenet Ramsey case with a little creepy pageant princess crossed with Lon Chaney’s Masque of the Red Death. In this episode I wanted to take it up a notch so I’m thinking, the New York Body Snatchers – probably the most infamous cadavre farming case of recent memory. Then I thought, nobody ever has a gangster ghost so I based one specter on a “Sammy the Bull meets Joe Pesci” hybrid and the other is an ‘infamous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe meets Kids in the Hall’s Cancer Boy’ type thing. Yeah, I’m a little disturbed.”
This all-new, half-hour uncensored episode of Ghost Trek had a sneak preview at Mad Monster Party 2013 (winner of Viewer’s Choice the previous year) screening in front of a standing-room-only crowd with Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Melvin “The Mop Boy” in attendance. The sleeper hit of Fright Night Film Fest 2011 and winner of “Best Comedy” returns with the wordy, but wholly appropriate, Ghost Trek: Goomba Body Snatchers Mortuary Lockdown (and Panel Show).
In the Goomba Body Snatchers episode, the Ghost Trek fans are lined up around the block at the local college to attend a panel show and live broadcast hosted by Rick Weiner (Tim Ross) of the Real Divorcees of Los Angeles County and he really has Zeke, Jules, and Scary Carrie under the microscope. Harvey Goldman (Michael Plumides) nixes Shawna’s attempts to get Zeke fired and sends her to Cabo to stay at his condo. Clairvoyant Guy Swisher visits via satellite from the set of Psychic Brats. Scary Carrie continues her unrelenting haze of the newbie, Jules Partridge. Zeke is called out about his tryst with Svetlana on live TV. ‘The Bomb’ gets an unexpected injury at the ‘Juggalos’ by Tila Tequila. Joey ‘Mayhem’ is accidentally dosed with a heaping helping of mushroom-laced omelets right before lockdown. The Gambini & Sons Mortuary is haunted by a high profile bondage photographer and notorious mob enforcer – both dismembered and sold to biomed companies by a mad junkie doctor. Weasel and Ray-Ray bang their heads in a drug-fueled musical number. This episode lampoons everything from Goodfellas to Ghost Adventures – from Mapplethorpe to mad doctors – from Real Housewives to George Romero – from Talking Dead to teen icons. Sound crazy? It is. Very.
The ensemble cast of Goomba Body Snatchers stars the late Gia Allemand in her final role, Michael Melendez (Turning Home), Jonny Fairplay (Survivor), Julia Bullock (X-Factor), Christy Johnson (Mortuary), Disco Inferno (WCW), and Kevin Johnson (Prisoners), with appearances by Colt Cabana (WWE),Super model Cora Deitz, and Brett Gentile (Seeking Justice). The newest episode is written and directed by Michael G. Plumides, Jr., with additional material directed by Robert Filion, and produced by Plumides, Chris Pittman, Robert Filion, and Bill Walker. Executive Producers are Pittman, Plumides and Anne Saunders. Make-up effects by Martin Barry and Conor McCullagh.
This from Michael Plumides regarding the passing of Gia Allemand: “We are saddened by the loss of our cast member, Gia Allemand. I was going through some footage the other day where Gia looked so beautiful and full of life. It brought tears to my eyes. But Gia wasn’t just a pretty girl; she was bright and funny; a clever girl – pleasant and quick-witted. And Gia understood the character – she was from Long Island and she knew those NYU film school girls. She planned to reprise her role as Producer Shawna Leibowitz in the Ghost Trek: Confederate Ghouls feature film (in development for 2014). She even tweeted about it last July, less than a month before her untimely death. We will all miss her.”
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