Barbershop Quintet by Mike Murphy

A young barber unwisely starts to wonder why so many regular customers have metal plates in their heads.

Type:

Short

Status:

For sale

Page Count:

7pp

Genre:

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Budget:

Shoestring

Age Rating:

17+

Based On:

My audio script.

Synopsis/Details:

A young barber attributes the metal plates in many of his clients' heads to war injuries since they are all elder gents. He soon learns that he is wrong. The metal plates are covering holes drilled into their heads into which jellyfish-like aliens have been inserted, taking over their subjects in a plan to conquer the world.

And, now that he knows the truth, he is next.

Story & Logistics

Story Type:

Getaway

Story Conclusion:

Sad

Linear Structure:

Linear

Cast Size:

Several

Locations:

Couple

Special Effects:

Prosthetics

Characters

Lead Role Ages:

Male Young Adult, Male over 45

Villian Type:

Beast/Monster

Advanced

Action Elements:

Hand to Hand Combat

Time Period:

Contemporary times

Country:

United States of America (USA)

Time of Year:

Summer

Submitted: May 3, 2019

Last Updated: October 16, 2024

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The Writer: Mike Murphy

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories. A more complete list of awards is presented below by year. In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9). In 2020, his screenplay Die Laughing was a semi-finalist in the Unique Voices Screenplay Competition from Creative Screenwriting magazine. The following year, his TV pilot script “The Bullying Squad” was a quarter-... Go to bio