The Story

Party Demon is about a new Exorcist that is on his first assignment. He is sent to a house where a man is possessed by a Demon that just wants to party and not take any souls. The Demon bargains with the Exorcist to hang out with him for just an hour and then he'll go back to hell. He promises to show the Exorcist the time of his life.

Preston Tompkins and Zach Reinert are comedians and filmmakers based out of Denver, CO. Their first short film, Paranormal Drunktivity, was a success and played at over 13 film festivals around the country and won several awards including Best Horror-Comedy and Audience Favorite.  

What We Need & What You Get

Help bring this short to life by donating to this campaign! All money raised through this campaign will be used to pay our cast & crew, rent equipment to film the short, food for our cast and crew, pay for post-audio sound mixing and for festival submissions.

The Impact

With the success of our first short film, we want to continue to employ Denver filmmakers, actors and comedians to tell stories. This script is also a proof of concept for a feature length film. Help us produce this so we can take this story to the big screen some day.

MEET THE CAST & CREW

STEPHEN AGYEI as Exorcist

Stephen Agyei is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who hails from Denver, CO-- shining brightly with his mischievous smile with a style Lamon Ferguson described as "calculated fearlessness." The LA-based comedian has been featured in Abbott Elementary (ABC), This Fool (Hulu), BoJack Horseman (Netflix), Just For Laughs Digital, The LOL Network, Viceland's Flophouse and NPR's "All Things Considered."

BEN BRYANT as Demon

A Denver based stand-up and sketch comedian, Ben Bryant and his comedy have appeared on Adult Swim and Huffington Post and has been a part of the Limestone Comedy Festival, High Plains Comedy Festival, SeriesFest, 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, Asheville Comedy Festival, Fly Over Comedy Fest, Accidental Comedy Festival, Memphis Comedy Festival, Bird City Comedy Festival, and Savage Henry Festival. Ben has opened for big dog comedians like Kyle Kinane, Rory Scovel, Eddie Pepitone, Todd Glass, Mark Normand, Taylor Tomlinson, and Kurt Braunholer. Ben runs an independent comedy club in the basement of a church called Denver Comedy Underground and is a club regular at the world famous Comedy Works. Ben’s comedy show was voted one of the “Best Comedy Nights in America” by The Interrobang.

SAM SISSON as Anna

Sam Sisson is a Colorado-based comedian; inventor of Durst Traps (photoshopping Fred Durst into thirst traps), former National Air Sex Champion (she’s really great at fuckin’ nothing at all), and star of the 2023 horror film “Mantid” (streaming on TromaNow). Sam has opened for prominent comedians such as; Bobcat Goldthwait, Judah Friedlander, and Todd Barry. After her set, Todd told her “Good job”, which he later downgraded to “You did fine”. Check her out and judge for yourself (in-person or on social media @queefpantry)!

MITCH JONES as Pizza Guy

Tenured stand-up comedian, podcaster, voice actor, and professional mischief-maker, Mitch Jones has been doing stand-up comedy since 2010—but he's been clownin' since day one.​ You may have seen Mitch bringing the laughs and insights from the commentary booth at Lucha Libre & Laughs, rocking the stage at the High Plains Comedy Festival, co-hosting the nerd-culture deep dive that is the Broadcast Geeks podcast, performing all across Colorado, or rolling through the country with the No Country for Stoned Men Comedy Tour.

THE WRITERS & DIRECTORS

PRESTON TOMPKINS 
Preston Tompkins is a comedian and filmmaker besed out of Denver, CO. He co-wrote and co-direcected the short horror-comedy “Paranormal Drunktivity” with fellow comedian Zach Reinert that appeard in over 15 film festivals and won several awards including “Best Horror Comedy” at the Atlanta Comedy Film Festival. He is the co-host of the podcast “Finally Some Bad News” where comedians tell monologue jokes. He has opened for comedians Nick Swardson and Gareth Reynolds.

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ZACH REINERT

Zach Reinert is a one liner comedian out of Denver, CO. His first album, ‘A Boatload of Jokes’, was featured on Sirius XM and won album of the year in the Denver Westword in 2020. He also released a special called ‘Trains, Trains, Trains’ for 800 Pound Gorilla Media in 2024. Zach also spent 2022 and 2023 co-writing and co-directing a short film with Preston Tompkins called ‘Paranormal Drunktivity’

MANUEL CONTRERAS- PRODUCER

Manuel Rodrigo Contreras-Soto is a Mexican-American director/writer/producer who specializes in horror, horror comedy, magical realism, and exploitation films. With 9 years of experience working in the local industry whose works have been featured in Westword, a second rounder in the Austin Film Festival, as well as being featured in multiple film festivals throughout the U.S. He also has training in Lucha Libre, concert photography, and music production & performance. Manuel brings his cultural background to his works and is inspired by filmmakers such as Guillermo Del Toro, George Miller, Mario Bava, & Luis Buñel as well as other artists, writers, and performers including: Gabriel García Márquez, Eddie Guerrero, Gustave Doré, Lourdes Grobet, and many more.

AUSTIN PREISTER- MAKEUP & SFX