Dan Byrd – MRQE

Mortuary (2005/I)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.

“Utopia”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of young adults who met online are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel.

“Salem’s Lot”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem’s Lot, and it’s up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

“Cougar Town”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life’s next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family… even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.

“Aliens in America”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Justin Tolchuk is a sensitive, lanky 16-year-old just trying to make it through the social nightmare of high school in Medora, Wisconsin. When his well-meaning mom Franny signs up for the school’s international exchange student program, she pictures an athletic, brilliant Nordic teen who will bestow instant coolness on her outsider son. However, when the Tolchuk’s exchange student arrives, he turns out to be Raja Musharaff, a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslim. It’s going to be a very interesting year for Raja, Justin, his family and the entire population of Medora.

Weepah Way for Now

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Elle and Joy spend their last week before their next music tour wandering through the heart of Laurel Canyon, whiling away carefree afternoons with their friends as they plan for their own going away party.

Easy A

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school’s gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

Lonely Hearts

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the ‘The Lonely Hearts Killers’ kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.

The Hills Have Eyes

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on Wes Craven’s 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family…and they are the prey.

A Cinderella Story

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school’s Halloween dance.