CRIME / COMEDY / SUPERNATURAL
LIKE A DIRTY FRENCH NOVEL
A campy pulp-noir following two estranged twin brothers, a cosplaying femme fatale, and a sexually-charged phone caller linked to a mischievous set of pookas.
BACKGROUND:
The 2020 lockdown saw Mike Cuenca teaming with previous writing collaborators Dan Rojay and Ashlee Elfman to create an anthology noir blending jungian theories, reincarnation, and duality into a spicy and humorous, non-linear narrative.
The premise: an exaggerated, airborne disease caused by masked pookas sees victims suffering from stasiphobia (a fear of standing). With residents now locked indoors, characters are suffocated by their present circumstances…
