Writing/producing team Brent Lydic and Tip Scarry, who also star in the film, have produced the buddy comedy Spirit Quest, with Lydic making his feature directorial debut.
“We like to think of SPIRIT QUEST as a hybrid strain of a stoner comedy: part Duplass Brothers, part Seth Rogen, with a few dick jokes and a whole lot of heart. There are drugs (obvs), vampires and astronauts, magical doorways, 80s toy commercials, 16th century friars, and psychedelic bandits,” said Lydic.
Scarry and Lydic portray longtime friends ‘Tip’ and ‘Brent’ who take a hallucinogenic mushroom trip through various past incarnations of themselves throughout different centuries.
In SPIRIT QUEST, Tip is in the midst of a breakup and must, for the first time in his life, take a real hard look at who he is becoming. Naturally, Tip asks one of oldest friends, Brent, to take him out to the desert to trip on ‘shrooms. As a self-proclaimed Spirit Guide and veteran of hallucinogens, Brent encourages Tip to be open to alternate realities and explore the unknown. They quickly find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere and are faced with the decision to either turn back or go deeper into the desert. Tip’s psychedelic journey, with Brent as his guide, helps both of them come to realize that this Spirit Quest was one they were destined to take because only by answering the call, facing their own fears & self-doubts, and struggling with past pain and suffering, can they possibly learn to live in the present… and maybe even do it with a sense of humor.
The trippy buddy comedy will be released by Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios Company, on DigitalHD, Cable VOD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 12 throughout North America.
