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Log Line: ‘Being Naughty might just be a good thing this year’
Synopsis
Can a group of high school teenagers save the town from the “Twelve Zombie Santa’s of Christmas” before it’s to late…or will the Santa Zombies ruin Christmas forever…
Feature Film
120 minutes
Being naughty is a good thing this year…
More than just your typical “zombie” movie, Christmas With The Zombies marries humor with just the right amount of suspense and terror, resulting in a future cult classic.
It’s Christmas Eve in a small Midwest town; the high school kids are let out early for the holidays. The town square is decorated for Christmas. Twelve volunteer Santas are done collecting donations for the day. There is an accident at the nuclear power plant and a contagious virus is released.
The nightmare begins when NORAD shoots down Santa or…do they? While tracking Santa and his reindeer on their annual pilgrimage around the world, an unidentified aircraft threatens the local nuclear facility. Determined to keep America safe, NORAD swings into action warning off the errant plane. With no response to their multiple warning calls, NORAD is forced to take action when the plane suddenly drops off the radar.
The plane crashes into the lake located near the nuclear plant and a sleigh with eight authentic looking reindeer fly out of the crashed plane and crack through the ice covered lake. Quickly refreezing half in and half out of the water…it does, indeed, look like NORAD has shot down Santa. The pilot, strangely dressed as Santa, the co-pilot and flight engineer, even more strangely dressed as elves, are thrown from the plane, into a pool of glowing goo.
Ethan a high school senior and his high school freshman sister Rusty discover the Santa sleigh and reindeer. Meanwhile the contaminants have had time to work their hideous magic on the poor Santa and his Elves and the zombies are on the loose.
Back at the high school, the finishing touches are being applied to the Christmas Eve floats in the auto shop garage by best friends, Izzy, martial-artist expert and Ralphie the faithful not so street-smart sidekick. The twelve Santas arrive at the high school to drop off their collection kettles in the auditorium. Each Santa is assigned a location throughout the small friendly town to “play” Santa. Unfortunately “plane crash” Santa has emerged from the frozen abyss as your worst nightmare Santa and he is looking for recruits. Who better to fill his army from the underworld than fellow Santas? They spread throughout the town spreading Holiday Fear instead of Holiday Cheer.
Meanwhile back at the lake, Ethan and Rusty realize that they are now on the hunt for ZOMBIES. First stop…the high school to warn and recruit their friends. They find their friends Izzy and Ralphie working on the float, and then meet up with their friend Marcus, brilliant All-State quarterback. Investigating ominous sounds coming from the auditorium, they discover a strangely quiet bloody battleground…clearly something has happened and it can’t be good. The blood covered assignment list of locations for each of the twelve Santas of Christmas is found and The Gang begins their adventure.
This diverse group of friends must band together and follow the list to destroy
each and every Zombie Santa before the curse can spread throughout their town.
Follow The Gang from venue to venue as they trap and eliminate each Zombie Santa.
Throw in a conspiracy theorist Gulf War Vet and local Sheriff and you have the perfect mixture of camaraderie, loyalty, terror, humor, and ZOMBIES. The race is on to save the town and all of humanity from the Twelve Zombie Santas of Christmas.
Destined to become a Christmas classic with an annual reoccurring revenue stream, this new twist on the old zombie genre will have them coming back year after year.
Merry Zombie Christmas…HO…HO…HO…
5 STAR RESORT ®©
Synopsis – 5 Star Resort
248 innocent people are being held hostage at a 5 Star Resort in the small tropical island nation of Tuilapo.50 well armed terrorists will execute one hostage at random every 24 hours if the 250 million dollar ransom is not paid. If there are any signs of rescue, the terrorists will blow up the entire resort along with everyone in it.
Every guest, whether they are man, woman or child, has a number from 1 to 248 written on their wristband. If their number is chosen, they will be the next to be eliminated, so the clock is literally ticking.
We follow 2 families and 4 couples as they try to deal with the incredible stress they endure every hour of every day knowing at noon one of their numbers could be the next to be chosen.Just as some of the male hostages try to band together to plan an attack, a very unlikely hero emerges in the form of a five foot tall 12 year old girl.
CHASING THE DREAM ®© (Based on a true story)
Phil Sanders is a Canadian baseball coach who desperately wants to live his dream of becoming a baseball scout.
Phil’s wife reluctantly lets him leave home for the summer to be a volunteer assistant coach with a collegiate summer league team in small town North Carolina. As he fights for his dreams and clashes with the head coach, he becomes a good luck charm for the players and leads them to a remarkable winning season. Just as Phil thinks his opportunity is only a fading dream a chance meeting reignites Phils pursuit, bringing him one step closer to his ultimate goal of becoming a scout.
Phil and the Head Coach of the Franklin City Owls butt heads all summer long. Coach Haynes can’t really send Phil home because he’s superstitious and the players like having Phil around and they win like no team has ever won before.
Will the Owls win the championship, will Haynes survive Phil, will Phil get the experience he desperately needs to become a scout…
This wonderful, true Canadian & American story brings the love of baseball and a smile to sports fans everywhere. Encompassing all 129 countries that play baseball in one form or another. With locations in both Canada/Ontario and the US/North Carolina. This is a story of determination and taking your dream to the next level.
“I want to make this feature film mostly for the players, so the world can see what can be accomplished when a group of athletes of any sport dedicate themselves to playing for the good of the team rather than themselves.” – Phil Savage
ABLE SEAMAN JUST NUISANCE ®© (Based on true story)
The British Royal Navy has seriously gone to the dogs. It was 1939 and the world was on the brink of war when the British Royal Navy decided the answer to Hitler’s unabated aggression was hidden in the outer reaches of the Empire. South of Cape Town, in the sleepy little village of Simon’s Town, lay the secret to victory over the forces of evil threatening the Empire and, indeed, the world.
THE SIEGE OF O’OKIEP ®© (Based on true story)
A battle that never happened and a siege that ended a war. In a remote part of the British Empire, on the southern tip of the continent of Africa, the old world was beginning its inevitable crash into the new. The last great Imperial War and era had begun. It would be known as the Boer War. Our story commences in the beginning of the third year of the conflict. Both of the opposing commanders Colonel Shelton and General Smuts basically disobeyed their orders.
Colonel Shelton was to protect the diamond and copper mines. Those were his orders. But when General Maritz destroyed the mission and the surrounding town, he brought over 5500 women and children into the garrison for protection. General Smut’s orders were to reduce the O’Okiep garrison to ruble as quickly as possible. Knowing the war would soon be over, General Smuts did not want to see hundreds, if not thousands, of his Boer troops killed at in a final and most likely senseless battle. The British had two maxim machine guns and he knew the terrible price his men would pay in an all-out attack.
After months of siege, General Smuts felt compelled to launch an all-out attack. It started with a bombardment in the dark of night. At dawn, with thousands of Boer troops ready to attack and everyone in position, an American buckboard was sited with four men and a large white flag barreling down the valley. It contained two British Officers and two Boer Officers. The war was over. This story is about a final battle that did not take place and a siege that help end the war.
Note: In all of South Africa. O’Okiep is the only place where whites, blacks and coloreds (as people of mixed heritage like to be referred in South Africa), have cemeteries side by side. To this day they share have a common theme of history and respect.
The Siege of O’Okiep is also the only Anglo-Boer War siege in which everyone was fed the same rations and no one died from starvation or disease.
About Us
Dumb Dog Productions LLC is a family owned company. With over 60 years of film and TV experience between the sister and two brother team. Sherri is the CEO with a background as a writer and executive producer. James is also a writer and producer with a past in props and research. Bruce is a producer and specializes in budgets, scheduling and locations. His past includes working as an accountant and art department coordinator. Montage is the culmination of some of the work we have worked on either individually or collectively.
With a team that has lived and worked on five continents we take a global look at the work we do. Targeting specific demographics, distribution and genre oriented audiences. We have offices located in White Sands, New Mexico and Cape Town, South Africa. At right Bruce’s first show. The Spelling TV series ‘Safe Harbor’.
Some of our film projects, contact Bruce Bisbey for details. In Partnership with Punch Drunk LLC and Media Arts International Film Corporation.
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