Chris LaMont
Writing
Biography
Chris LaMont is an independent filmmaker who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University and dreamed of being a filmmaker since fourth grade. He has been a writer, director and producer on such projects as TV or Not TV, The Best Movie Ever Made, Writer's Block, Film Club, 14 Days in America, Netherbeast Incorporated, Screen Wars, My Apocalypse, The Graves, Justice Served, Postmarked, Rhea, The Au Pair Nightmare and Open Source. In 2000, he started the Phoenix Film Festival, the non-profit Phoenix Film Foundation, Phoenix Film Society, IFP - Phoenix and co-founded the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, the Arizona Student Film Festival and The Arizona College Film Festival. His screenwriting with Joe Russo industry award winners Road Rage, Soul Mates, The Red Pill, and The Last Will & Testament of Charles Abernathy. Their screenplay Au Pair Nightmare was filmed for airing on Lifetime in Spring 2020 and the action-thriller script Open Source starring Bruce Willis will be released theatrically in Fall 2020. He has taught at ASU in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre since 2003, produced hundreds of marketing, educational and promotional projects, and he wrote Great Comedy Films: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Funny Movies.
Known For
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
The Locksmith
Billionaire Charles Abernathy, on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line – they’ll get nothing if he’s found dead by dawn.
The Inheritance
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter just to get it.
Hard Kill
Two inseparable sister's visit to a remote mine town turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural.
The Graves
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
The Au Pair Nightmare
In an apocalyptic future, a serial killer holds his family and another family hostage in an attempt to change his life.
My Apocalypse
An assistant struggling to survive in Los Angeles is thrown a lifeline when a complete stranger offers her increasingly large sums of money to do stranger and stranger challenges. She must then decide just how far she’s willing to go to pay her bills.
When a Stranger Venmos
After deciding on take-out for dinner, elderly couple Robert and Doris' quest for food is interrupted when they find Steve stranded on the side of the road. Offering him a ride, Robert and Doris are rewarded for their generosity when Steve invites them to his home for dinner. However the unsuspecting couple is unaware of Steve's true intentions, and while steaks are indeed on the menu, so is death!
Take-Out
A novelist is haunted by a murderer obsessed with the game Truth or Dare.
Writer's Block
An ordinary mail delivery route turns deadly for two mail carriers who may have seen too much. When everyone starts getting killed and taken hostage, and THEN things get completely out-of-control when a series of double-crosses and conspiracies are revealed in this dark comedy.