Jekyll and Pryde
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Jekyll and Pryde

Television (Half-hour) · Thriller · 34 pages
Status: Spec
Dr. Jekyll develops a serum to suppress gay desire, but when the rakish Rev. Pryde emerges, his toxic masculinity spawns a killing spree on a conservative college campus.
Written by Michael Clifton
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Michael Clifton
Mexico City, MX
A hillbilly by birth, Michael cut his teeth in New York's fast-paced world of art. Today he writes stories about outsiders caught between real and imagined horrors. In 2024, he was featured on Killer Shorts' list of LGBTQIA+ writers to watch. His feature script The Toy Collector entered a shopping agreement and his film Bath Bomb picked up an a...
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Pitch Deck available upon request. Jekyll and Pryde puts a present-day spin on a horror classic. Everybody knows the 1886 gothic classic by Robert Louis Stevenson, but what most people don’t know is that it’s critically regarded as an allegory of repressed homosexuality. Think TRUE BLOOD meets RIVERDALE with juicy violence, gay sex, straight sex, mystery, dark humor and a bit of camp. The virile monster Rev. Pryde is both a science experiment gone bad and the terrifying by-product of the closeted Dr. Jekyll's own homophobia. Set on a conservative college campus, the series examines the horrors of internalized shame across gay and straight storylines by satirizing how religion can be used as both a sword and a shield.