Loglines & Screenplays by Rick Gates

GENRES: Action, Thriller

While searching for an interesting character story in the wake of a devastating hurricane, a reporter settles on a lone man with no identification other than a name “Jack” sewn into his work shirt and no memory of who he is, where he came from, or how he got there. However, the live airing of this brief interview catches the attention of some very nasty and powerful people in Los Angeles who know exactly who “Jack” is and will stop at nothing to see him dead.

GENRES: Thriller, Horror

While on a log cabin getaway with a group of old friends, a damaged former Marine and his best friend rescue a young woman being hunted in the woods. However, something odd about the young woman leads those around her to develop a dangerous and uncontrollable obsession for her, causing them to turn on her and each other with disastrous results.

GENRES: Action, Comedy

After failing to thwart a jewelry heist, two disgraced former mall security guards, Hector and Jake, take on new jobs through a mysterious temp agency and suddenly find themselves working for an evil corporation hell bent on world destruction.

GENRES: Crime, Drama, Mystery

After serving 25 years in prison for the murder of a young girl after a high school homecoming dance, a man returns to his hometown where he begins to doubt his own memory of the tragic event and his guilt, leading him to search for the truth.

GENRES: Horror, Comedy

A young, newlywed couple finds themselves both financially and physically stuck living in a haunted Gothic mansion fixer upper with a long dark history and must rely on a ragtag team of libidinous parapsychologists and an unconventional ghost hunting ex-marine to "clear" the mansion of a lingering evil presence.

GENRES: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A retired FBI agent is summoned by his former partner, the recently elected sheriff of Darke County, to assist in his investigation into the strange disappearances of all of the previous sheriffs as well as other weird occurrences throughout the county's long history. When the new sheriff also disappears, the retired agent must take on the role of sheriff to not only find his missing friend but to also find out the truth about Darke County.

GENRES: Adventure, Fantasy

Five prisoners escape from Blackgate Prison through a mysterious dark portal in a hidden underground cave beneath the prison only to find themselves in a medieval fantasy world filled with knights, wizards, dragons and other creatures with no way of returning and a relentless head prison guard hunting them down.

GENRES: Comedy

A straight man struggles to find love, happiness, and a fulfilling career while being constantly mistaken for his gay hardcore pornstar twin brother.

GENRES: Comedy

Aging actresses struggle to compete with younger actresses for jobs and love in Los Angeles.

GENRES: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After the death of his storytelling, globe-trotting archaeologist grandfather, Richard Strangewayes, a young man and several other potential heirs to the Strangewayes estate must compete in a dangerous and puzzling quest around the world as they race to uncover and claim a lifetime of hidden treasures.

GENRES: Horror, Comedy

In this dark parody of evil disembodied killer limbs, an evil disembodied foot goes on a killing rampage and no one is safe.

Tag line: Evil is afoot.

GENRES: Comedy

A young Italian man returns to the small village where he grew up to visit his dying grandfather and must sneak the old man out of the hospital and across the busy village to grant his last wish before it's too late.

GENRES: Horror

Returning to the scene of a tragic event, a psychiatrist and his patient discover something sinister may truly exist just below the surface of Shadow Lake.

GENRES: Crime, Horror

To cover up his own involvement in the brutal murder of his boss' brother, a mob enforcer takes on the order to hunt down and kill the man wrongfully suspected of the murder, a mysterious and elusive hitman known as The Nightingale.

GENRES: Comedy, Crime, Film-noir, Mystery

A locked room, a dead body, thirteen suspects, one overconfident detective and a very deadly storm all lead to one conclusion: Someone in the room is a cold-blooded killer. So, why then does each accused killer subsequently die whenever the lights go out?