Contact:
Mike Brinkman
5825 West Broadway Ave.
Crystal, MN 55428
 

Type: Fiction

Genre: Screenplay/Sitcom

Author's Interview:

Biography: Over the years, I received a few awards for excellence in writing.  In Youth in Government my sophomore year, I received an award of excellence in journalism. During my senior year, I helped write scripts for a program entitled “Zip Your Lip”.  The program won national acclaim, and earned me the Tablet of Honor award for my participation.  Most recently, though, I wrote two plays for my college’s One Act Festival. Both were enjoyed immensely.

Halloween Street

Blurb/Logline: When Dracula and Frankenstein move into a quiet suburban neighborhood, terror ensues. Little do its residents know that Dracula is now head of the Vampire League Against Defamation (VLAD), and Frankenstein is Frank Version 2.0, a robotic Frankenstein created by Microsquibble.  Now an outspoken jock (Max) and a passive aggressive computer nerd (Jon) must calm their neighbors’ fears, all the while keeping Frank’s malfunctions and Max’s fear of bats in check.

Synopsis: “Halloween Street” is a sitcom about two roommates, Jon and Max, who find themselves living in a neighborhood of horror legends. Max is an angry, loudmouthed jock and Jon is a passive-aggressive computer nerd. The episode begins with the two standing in their driveway, speculating about who their new neighbors might be. When the moving man comes, Max goes over and helps him move a heavy crate that contains a coffin. They move the coffin until a dead guy falls out, causing Max to run out of the room screaming like a little girl. Eventually Max calms down and helps the moving man until the dead guy walks and talks, causing them both to run out of the house screaming like little girls. When Max tells Jon about the situation Jon does not believe him, so they go over to the house to investigate. While there, they meet Dracula and ask him a series of questions concerning vampire stereotypes. They are shocked by his answers. Before the two leave, Drac invites them to join a vampire special interest group. Max says he hopes that Drac is the only strange event in the neighborhood. At the end of the episode, however, another horror legend is revealed.

Sample Scene

Max:

Is that our new neighbor? He looks like someone I could get along with.

Jon:

(sarcastically) On an ever so long list of people. Max, that's the moving man.

Max:

Only one? I'll go over and help him.

Jon:

You better let him do his job.

Max:

Nonsense, he could use an extra hand. Besides, if I help now, I won't feel so bad about driving them out of the neighborhood later.

(Jon sighs and Max runs across the street. Cut to the basement of the house. Max and the moving man are carrying a big, wooden box. They set it down and huff and puff awhile)

Max:

Whew! What do you suppose is in there?

Moving man:

I don't know, but I don't want to lift it again.

Max:

Maybe the family will lift it when they come.

Moving man:

Nah, I'd like to get paid. The man I spoke to told me to put it in that dark room over there.

Max:

Oh, okay. Maybe it's a storage item or something. Let's open it up.

(Moving man opens the box with a crowbar, revealing a coffin)

Max:

What the hell? Who brings a coffin to their new home?

Moving man:

Probably some guy who's gonna kick the bucket soon. Who the hell cares? Let's just move the damn thing and get out of here.

(They enter the dark room. A bang is heard, followed by a scream. Max runs out of the room)

Max:

AAH! Dead guy! Dead guy! Gross! Gross! Creepy!

Moving man:

Hey, get back in here and help me with this thing, will ya?

Max:

No, no no. There's a dead guy in there.

Moving man:

So. We'll just work around it for now. We can dispose of it later.

Max:

Are you in the mafia? Because if you are...

Moving man:

I'm not in the mafia. Now get back in here and help me!

Max:

Okay

Movingman:

Alright, now let's move it over here. There we go.

Drac:

Ah, you must be the moving men.

Max:

Please tell me that was one of your co-workers.

Moving man:

No, they're all on break. I thought that was you.

Max:

It wasn't you?

Moving man:

No.

Max:

Then who was it?

Drac:

It was me.

(There is a pause, followed by Max and the moving man running out of the basement, screaming like little girls)