Billy Isaaks (Tyler Tackett) sits paralyzed in his darkened living room piecing together fragmented flashbacks of his tumultuous relationship with live-in girlfriend Alice Murphy (Mair Mulroney). He fondly remembers the early days of puppy love but his memory soon unleashes the not so distant past when an innocent evening of recreational drug use 360’s into a weekend drug binge with the pizza guy (Paul Stanczak). Is Billy repressing thoughts of a threesome, the drugs he knows they took or both? His nightmare unravels before our eyes.
The Genesis
Many of us have lost someone we love to addiction whether it was alcohol, street drugs or prescription pills. Things have gotten really out of control. All too often we hear only one narrative regarding drugs, they are bad – don’t take them and just say no.
We don’t feel that there is a proper social dialogue about which drugs are the real killers and which will merely waste your life away. Among all the hard drugs opiates are the real demons.
44 people in the U.S. die from an overdose of prescription painkillers every day “I lost my younger brother and best friend Jimmy in 2009 from an ongoing addiction to prescription painkillers he was only 39.”Skyko | Writer/Director
There have been plenty of movies that expose heroin for the devil that it is but many people just don’t realize that heroin and a physician’s prescribed opiate/opioid pills are one in the same. We want to make this film because young people need to see and understand this.
Drug abuse is something that Sky, our writer/director knows all too well, “I lost my younger brother and best friend Jimmy in 2009 from an ongoing addiction to prescription “painkillers” he was only 39.
The Killer
After my brother died, a friend recommended a documentary called “Oxycontin Express” This answered a lot of my questions and it profoundly affected me. My hope is that our film informs as well as shocks the hell out of young people, scaring them away from ever getting hooked on any drug”.
