Diane

Diane is a screenplay I wrote with my friend Jay Lawson when we were in our early twenties. We originally had plans to make it ourselves (which is why the script contains certain specifics about the filming process and various locations we had planned to shoot at in Baltimore), but one thing led to another and Diane was sadly never made. Because we could not afford to pay actors, we wrote the dialogue with a lot of onset improvisation in mind. Synopsis: Diane is a love story wrapped inside an exploitation horror-comedy about three Satan-worshipping, man-hating, lesbian witches, artificially inseminated by the Devil, who give birth to his only son, a rockabilly juvenile delinquent teen named Diane. Diane lacks his mother's faith in religion (Satanism) and denies his birthright (Apocalyptic world domination), preferring to seek out the companionship of his crush, a blue-blooded field hockey player from North Baltimore who is already caught in the romantic sight of her preppy, lacrosse-playing cousin. This tale of mismatched lovers pleases none of the adults (or Satan) who all try to control the situation in their own desperate ways. Miracles abound in this wild, profane, touching, and just plain silly religious horror-comedy-romance from Timmy Reed and Jay Lawson.