Two washed up, rival C-list TV actresses fight to remain relevant all while becoming unwittingly entangled in a doomsday cult’s plan to kickstart the apocalypse. The problem? They're both the key to stopping it...all they have to do is work together.
CATASTROPHE QUEENS follows frenemies Hazel Hellborne and Babe-ula (aka Hazel Thompson and Barbara Menzel), two washed up, rival C-list actresses who fight to remain relevant in today’s society all while becoming unwittingly entangled in a doomsday cult’s plan to kickstart the apocalypse.
The two women frequent the convention circuit as their way of making ends meet, selling their autographs and posing for awkward photos with kids young enough to be their grandchildren.
When, at one convention in Winnipeg, they discover that their characters are being rebooted with younger, slimmer actresses, essentially cutting them off from their only source of income. If that’s not bad enough, on their way out, they’re attacked by demonic creatures who try to drag them off who knows where for who knows what. Luckily, a ragtag group of misfits shows up just in the nick of time and saves Hazel and Barb from certain doom. The leader of the group, an Indigenous woman named Nadie, tells them what’s going on to the best of her knowledge (the whole doomsday cult bringing forth the end times thing), and that Hazel and Barb are the key to stopping it. All they have to do is work together. Which is easier said than done.
Jessica Landry is a Métis screenwriter, director, producer, and Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Her original horror feature, MY ONLY SUNSHINE, was accepted into Whistler Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab in 2020 and Blood in the Snow’s Horror Development Lab in 2023.In 2021, she was accepted into the CFC/Netflix Project Development Accelerator; as well as TIFF’s inaugural Series Accelerator program (September 2022) and NSI’s Series Incubator program (November 2021). Her drama/sci-fi feature, ANOMALY, was chosen to participate in Whistler Film
Festival’s Producers Lab (2024) and Women in the Director’s Chair CAM program (2024-25), and her production company, Familiar Films, was chosen for the Canada-France Co-Production
Lab at SeriesMania (2024).
Jessica has several projects in development, including GHOST LANDS, an Indigenous-led paranormal documentary; WE SHALL BE MONSTERS, a factual series about the history of women in horror; an original horror series, ANATOMY OF A SÉANCE; and THE NIGHT BELONGS TO US, a feature adaptation of her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novella. Her original slasher feature, KILLER BODY COUNT, is currently streaming on Tubi, and she’s written several drama and thriller MOWs including LIST OF A LIFETIME, which was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award and Hollywood Critics’ Association Award. Jessica also worked as a story editor for the CBC sitcom, STRAYS; co-wrote and co-exec produced the feature doc, TRUE STORY, for the History Channel; has written on FAMILY FIRST, a sitcom in development with Eagle Vision; and wrote and directed several episodes of the factual series, 7TH GEN, for APTN. She’s directed several original shorts, including TESTAMENT (drama; on its festival run) and I FALL TO PIECES (dark comedy; in post). Jessica is currently adapting the novel APRIL RAINTREE as a limited series, recently signed a two-picture development deal, and has other projects in various stages of development.
