Overview

From Clara's mysterious reappearance in Death Valley, Disciples cuts to the present day, where stories of ""The California Cult"" and its enigmatic - and never-caught - leader, Billy Joe, are as much a part of the popular culture as the Manson Family. Clara, the lone survivor of the cult, has adopted a new identity to protect her and her daughter, Wren. And she mostly does, until one night when the past and present horrifically collide. Disciples is a seamless collaboration between cartoonist Ben Marra and filmmakers David Birke and Nicholas McCarthy. Birke and McCarthy's script celebrates and reinvents a cult film ethos. It combines the best of 1970s era eerie-thriller-terror movies in a fresh and revelatory way, similar to how Marra has continued/reinvented the work of Abel Ferrara and George Cosmatos in graphic novels like Night Business.

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[Disciples will] pack some laughs and leers from devotees of B-horror and splatter films.-- Publishers Weekly

[Disciples will] pack some laughs and leers from devotees of B-horror and splatter films.-- ""Publishers Weekly""

Author Information

Benjamin Marra is the author of several acclaimed graphic novels from Fantagraphics, including Terror Assaulter(O.M.W.O.T.), Night Business, and American Blood. He received a B.F.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University; studied in Florence, Italy; and earned his M.F.A. degree in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. He lives in Montreal. David Birke is a screenwriter known for the films Elle (2016), Slender Man (2018), and 13 Sins (2014). He lives in Tarzana with his wife and two daughters. Nicholas McCarthy is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer known for the feature films The Pact (2012) and The Prodigy (2019), and a writer on Nickelodeon's 2020 reboot of the classic horror television series Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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