The project follows Jessica Duffy, a film student who discovers her father was murdered by Tara “Tarantula” Revell, a sadistic hot-rod queen and spider-breeding outlaw. When Jessica’s bloodline awakens Tarantula’s gang from beyond the grave, their phantom hot rods scream back to life, hellbent on revenge. The screenplay has won over 30 awards, and it’s being developed as both a feature film and graphic novel.
Jessica Duffy, a 20-year-old film student, thinks her biggest problem is sneaking into clubs with her girlfriend. But when she discovers her birth certificate is sealed, her search for answers unravels a family secret: her real father was murdered at seventeen by Tara “Tarantula” Revell, a sadistic hot-rod queen and spider-breeding outlaw.
Drawn into the mystery, Jessica learns that her grandfather avenged the crime in a legendary bloodbath at a cornfield. But vengeance leaves scars—and when Jessica and her film school crew venture into that cursed field, the Von Park blood in her veins awakens the restless evil buried there.
Tarantula and her gang roar back from beyond the grave, engines screaming, hellbent on revenge. Now Jess must harness the one thing her enemies don’t have: imagination. With her creativity as a weapon, she and her friends must transform from film students into fearless storytellers who can reimagine reality itself in order to survive.
CornStalkers isn’t just horror—it’s high-octane, supernatural action with franchise power, merging hot rods, hauntings, and imagination-driven combat into a world where anything is possible. A fresh IP with unlimited potential, it’s a new breed of horror built for sequels, spin-offs, and a cult fanbase hungry for something original.
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Vincent Von Park (the Grandfather) is based on the infamous icon, Von Dutch, Kenneth Robert Howard. His celebrity value among the Kustom Kulture movement has never been tapped for a narrative film before. There are an estimated 2,000,000 hot rodders in the country and over 45,000 car clubs.
Michael Bayouth is an artist, writer, and director. And, you can visualize what he writes because he’s also a Union Storyboard Artist. He’s known for his storyboarding of tricky sequences for movies and series TV, such as HULU’s Books of Blood, The Orville, Salem, and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty on HBO. Directors such as Nick Copus, Joe Dante, and Brannon Braga, have all trusted him with their most crucial sequences – and in some cases even had him conceptualize and re-invent broken or unscripted scenes. Doing Doc Ock’s tentacle test shots on Spider-Man 2 with Sam Raimi, Steve Johnson and John Dykstra helped hone his knowledge of practical effects while his experience as a movie poster art director, working for the majors, such as Disney and Universal, add a unique marketing ability to his quiver.
