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Benjamin Ray

graphic-novel-screenwriter

 

 

Extended Loglines (please email me for samples or full screenplays)

Toxic Love Story

Beneath the rain-and-blood-slicked streets of a nightmarish distant city lies a horrific criminal underworld – from which escapes beautiful but tainted FAITH. Her dreams of a better future are given hope when she reconnects with wayward painkiller-addict standup comedian MARCUS. Together, the two broken souls must face a mob of brutal oppressors lead by her father. With only their passion and fury as weapons, the star-crossed lovers spirals into a mad, gritty journey to recovery and freedom…

 

 

Raven Blood

 

Urban Messiah

A tormented man seeking personal redemption brings his dark sense of justice to a seedy apartment filled with ghosts, villians and threats of his past and present. Giving rise to the Urban Messiah.

 

Johnny and Christina



Johnny,
an afflicted edgy stand-up comedian, dream of becoming the next Richard Pryor. His erratic wife Christina is an exotic dancer who aspires for Broadway. Together they struggle painfully to raise their 13 year old misfit daughter - Jenny -as Child Welfare muscle in and threaten to take her away. Johnny and Christina is an entertaining peek into the life of a married couple’s struggles with controversial careers as they try to stay afloat when bombarded with family responsibilities.

 


Planet Swamp - "Medusa"  200.40856 x 10009 km  929o 396.5"  



One Million And A Crime

In this edgy and stylized experiment in true-life surrealism, a Wall Street cog-in-the-wheel struggles against a seductively evil femme fatale, his drug and sex addictions, and maintaining the illusion of comfortably-numb “normal” life – but as this story reveals in starkly bizarre and gritty terms, no one can make a “clean” million.

 

Billy West And The World 

When a high school student sets out to experience and record the life of an aging cowboy, he finds himself embroiled in the gunslinger’s battle to keep his land from the clutches of thuggish mineral-mining prospectors in this tough-minded and hard-hitting tale that fuses the casual-cool of John Wayne’s "True Grit" with the graphic style of a Tarantino flick – to form a narrative that’s fresh, edgy and uncompromising

 

Bollywood and the Mob ( sitcom )

 

Civil War Basterettes

 

The Fence, The Son and the .44 Calibre

Mentally and physically isolated and damaged, JOYCE lives only to medicate her traumatized son CHRISTOPHER as they both relive disjointed, drug-hazed memories of a harrowing past at the hands of JAKE, the abusive husband and father whose influence now haunts them in a trapped nightmarish, Freudian place between life and death.

 

Ripper, Riding, Rasputin, Robin - The American Apocalypse


In this gritty and quirky apocalyptic-action-nightmare, a call-girl named Red Riding Hood, becomes a savior-angel in a world of filth and fury as she strives to prevent the destruction of America at the hands of a maniacal ex-black-ops marauder, Rasputin.


Mafia Spawn

 

Dance Desire Violence

New York, 1977. Moral of story - if you are a college drop out looking for a focus in life, don't  date/fall in love with a Crime Boss' sexy-beautiful  schiznoprenic wife.

 

The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Killer

Numbed by loneliness, an alien assassin whose mission on Earth is to help prepare for the long delayed arrival of his hellish species must handle the antagonism of humans who discover him and his fellow alien agents who uncovered his breach of protocol. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Killer, is an edgy, innovative sci-fi thriller that provides a look at humanity from a new, disturbing perspective.

 


Bike Tricks - The World Is Not Enough

 

Don't Hit My Mommy

 

Into The Night

The Broadway dreams of a beautiful dancer are exploited by a brilliant pyschotic mob boss who coerces her into performing at his  underworld club that fronts a experimental prostitution-murder-surgical ring.  When her father, ex-mafioso Nico, learns of her abduction, his long-dormant killer instincts kick in and he rushes to save her.  As he violently forces his way through the dismal otherworldly terrain, Nico's vengeance heals their damaged father-daughter relationship as they both struggle to escape this outer hell and their inner torments -- together.

 

Christopher and June

 

Every Breath You Take

When a middle-aged controversial actress leaves SoCal to settle in a quiet suburbia to raise her ill daughter, the prejudices, vices, and tensions of the locals churn to the surface and make her life a living hell.