Screamplay (1984)

Rufus Butler Seder, Katy Bolger, George Cordeiro, Basil J. Bova, M. Lynda Robinson ... see more  , Eugene Seder , Sam the Dog , Bob Wilson , Theodore Braun , Cheryl Hirshman , Dennis M. Piana , Paul L. Smith , Carolyn Ayotte , Deborah Bornstein , Ed Callahan , Linda Chisom , Patrick Conlan , Jim Connor , Alice Grossman , Catherine Haag , Rebecca Harclerode , Paul Hawkins , Katherine Hogan , Ellen Holbrook , Flip Johnson , Mijo Johnson , George Kuchar , Dan Lavender , Veronica Lewis , Karen McCann , Lonny McDougall , E. Rob Murphy , Terri Nordone , Erich Karl Nussbaum , Sean Justin O'Connor , Steven Rasch , Carolyn Romberg , Armand Saiia , Clif Sears , Pip Shepley , Johanna Wagner , Bob White , James F. McCann

Executed in the manner of a 1940's low-budget programmer, this comedy-thriller chronicles the misadventures of screenwriter Edgar Allen (Rufus Butler Seder), aspiring to move along in the literary foo... read more tsteps of another, 19th-century Edgar Allen. Edgar is trying to come up with good horror script in order to impress an agent. If the script is good, the agent will take on the scenarist. Needing digs, but having little dough, Edgar agrees to work for room and board as a janitor of the ramshackle Welcome Apartments, owned by an odd experimental filmmaker. Edgar finds that every resident is more than a little eccentric and uses them in his new script. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi