
Jay Burleson
Writing
Known For

Driven to the wilderness to bury the key to a horrible secret, a harried scientist is confronted by his own gruesome creation. Based on excerpts from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this atmospheric and moody short film is a haunting look at what rules us.
Frankenstein's Master

A lost slasher film from the golden age of the slasher genre. October 1979, Ricky Dean Logan is a man on a mission. Years ago, he lost a child at the hands of a psychopathic killer named Jakkariah Harding. When Harding escapes Death Row, Ricky Dean throws himself into the line of fire to stop him from killing again as Harding preys upon a group of friends gathered to watch a college football game.
The Third Saturday in October

Walker, a gig worker and artist, is drowning in the city's instability. Desperate for agency and financial relief to save his relationship with his ambitious girlfriend, Kylie, he accepts a lucrative but bizarre dog-walking job. At a secluded mansion, he meets Doug-a man living entirely as a dog. Initially repulsed, Walker stays, justifying the dehumanization as just another gig.
Kenneled

It's Part V! Unstoppable killer Jakkariah "Jack" Harding is back in town after seven years as he stalks and kills at random before chancing upon a football watch party. The game is, of course, between longstanding rivals the Alabama-Mobile Seahawks and the Tennessee A&M Commonwealth. Chaos ensues, in increasingly ridiculous fashion, with inventive murders and multiple love triangles! Hearts are broken and appendages are torn.
The Third Saturday in October: Part V

A fake trailer for an alternate 'lost' third entry in the "Halloween" series.
Halloween: Harvest of Souls, 1985

In 1993, Alabama based amateur filmmaker Warren Werner shot his first feature film, Pumpkin, on VHS. With a budget of only $600, a cast of friends, family, and unknown talent, the movie premiered at the local civic center and generated an immediate backlash from the community. Rumors that Warren and his girlfriend Samantha Dixon engaged in Satanic rituals began to spread throughout town. In the months following the premiere, Warren and Samantha committed suicide. The following year, another group of filmmakers began shooting a documentary about the deaths of Warren and Samantha. The documentary project was never completed, and Pumpkin was never released. The Nobodies is Warren Werner's Pumpkin, in it's entirety, cut together with the remaining documentary footage of the director's life and death.
The Nobodies

A compilation of home movies and video journals shot by a depressed teenage girl.
Anathema Arienette

A young man is searching for his missing friend in a Southern farming town with a vampire curse over it. He ends up trapped on a plantation and must outwit Duke Wolfgang Moonlight, a black vampire, in order to save a beautiful farmer's daughter with whom the he has fallen in love.