Making Friends

Making Friends

Credits
Title:	Making Friends
Director:	Marvin Suarez
Writers:	Greg Bartlett; Gary Raisor
Producers:	Greg Bartlett
Composer:	Joe Vitale, Jr.
Cinematography:	Marvin Suarez
Editors:	Marvin Suarez
Production
Production company:	Silver Street Films Infected Pictures
Released:	September 2nd, 2011
Running time:	12 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Making Friends is a film short of the horror genre. It was directed by Marvin Suarez with a script written by Greg Bartlett based on the short story written by Gary Raisor. It premiered at the Horrorfind Film Convention on September 2nd, 2011. It was also screened at the Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival on September 6th, 2011.

Plot[]

Ali Grayson is a waitress. She is on the telephone with someone discussing her financial woes, while looking down at a stack of past due notices on the table. Her son Denny is in the kitchen busying himself with carving up a pumpkin. Ali enters the kitchen and tells her son that she has to go into work for a few hours. She is unable to get a babysitter, so Denny will be by himself. She asks him to not go out trick or treating. The boy is someone what troubled and stammers out a response. Ali turns and leaves.

That evening is Halloween. A group of trick or treaters approach the house, but the house is dark. Several of them know that this is Denny's house, and they begin singing a made-up song, mocking him for having no friends. One child writes "Stuttering Denny Has No Friends" on the driveway with chalk.

Against his mother's wishes, Denny decides to go out trick or treating. He dons a Frankenstein mask and rides his bicycle to several houses collecting candy. By the time he returns home, his mother is asleep on the couch. Although Denny tries to sneak past her, she awakens and chastises him for going out trick or treating, citing that his candy might have razor blades in it. Ali removes Denny's Frankenstein mask revealing a vicious scar across his mouth - apparently caused from eating the type of candy that Ali is worried about. Denny tells his mom that he was out making new friends. As it turns out, Denny has been switching out the candy to be given to other trick or treaters with chocolates containing razor blades. Some distance away, the bullies that had taken candy from his house begin screaming and spitting up blood. Ali Grayson has a creeping suspicion of what her son has been doing, but issues a slight smile at him regardless.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Ethan Khusidman	Denny Grayson
Katie Maguire	Ali Grayson
Weez Tomlinson	Homeowner
Matthew E. Maldonado	Skeleton kid #1
Peter Moran	Skeleton kid #2
Madison Menicucci	Trick or treater
Matthew Menicucci	Trick or treater
Lauren Bartlett	Trick or treater
Chris Bartlett	Trick or treater
Shaylah Lugo	Trick or treater
Jason Lugo	Trick or treater
Justin Castro	Trick or treater

Notes & Trivia[]

Making Friends was the winner of the Best Thriller/Horror category at the 2011 Canton Film Festival.

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