Invisible Nicotine

A short film created for the Las Cruces International Film Festival 48_hour Film Challenge. A ruthless child trafficker known only as THE SUGARMAN has terrorized the El Paso -- Las Cruces area. It is up to the city's finest: Bones and Terry to stop him.

Made in under seven days for the Susto Horror Challenge.

After waking up in the middle of class, Daniel Lugo slowly starts to realize his life has changed for the worse. He finds out he is the newest student at Purgatory Academy, a boarding school located between life and death where the woodlands are the only thing keeping these poor young souls from hell. He tries searching for answers on how to move on from this accident and ends up joining a once large group of rebellious students that a struggling to win a war against their student government and it's ruthless counselor; a demon that has found the school's location. After one mission gone bad, Daniel finds himself being the key to the rebel's salvation.

When pure madness is mixed with our reality...