CURRENT PROJECTS
NEWS
WRITER | DIRECTOR
Brandon Pennick

GENRE:
Psychological Thriller
MALEUM'S CRUCIBLE (2025)
Once a celebrated scholar, now a disgraced outcast, Olen Trudord is determined to reclaim his place in high society—no matter the cost. As both a necromancer and a man of intellect, he turns to the one force that might restore his power: the dead. He summons Maleum, a long-buried 17th-century philosopher whose mastery of perception manipulation is unparalleled. But enlightenment is not given—it is earned.
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To unlock Maleum’s secrets, Olen must endure three merciless trials—each rooted in a metaphysical concept, designed to warp his mind, fracture his will, and unravel his very sense of reality. With every victory, he edges closer to absolute power, yet the deeper he descends, the more the lines between truth and illusion blur. Maleum’s lessons are not just tests—they are traps. What begins as a calculated pursuit of knowledge soon twists into a perilous descent, as each trial pulls Olen further into Maleum’s web of deception. With reality unraveling around him, he clings to the promise of enlightenment—unaware that every step forward tightens the noose. By the time he sees the truth, escape may no longer be an option. Olen risks not only his sanity—but the very vessel of his existence.
in-development
Maleum’s Crucible Selected for the 25th Anniversary Beverly Hills Film Festival Screenplay Competition!
I'm incredibly honored that Maleum’s Crucible has been selected for the 25th Anniversary Beverly Hills Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition. As the writer and director, it’s a privilege to have my work recognized at such a prestigious industry event, and I’m grateful to be among so many talented filmmakers and storytellers.
PHENOMENA
Open-World Supernatural Action Adventure | Game IP
A sandbox-style game that blends cinematic exploration with relic recovery, spiritual conspiracy, and atmospheric gameplay. Built around two underground antiquarians in a fictionalized Spain, Phenomena fuses ghost hunting, cryptid cases, and branching narrative missions in a stylized supernatural thriller format.
THE SYSTEM OF NATURE
Feature Film | Horror–Thriller Fantasy | In Development
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A boy. A slingshot. A magician whose final trick was death.
Years later, a fractured mind begins to twist reality—inviting something impossible to return. The System of Nature is a hallucinatory horror-fantasy that follows a man’s descent through the layers of his own psyche—each step echoing an inner inferno, where imagination becomes both punishment and guide.
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Structured like a cartoon, yet haunted like a tragedy, the film explores what happens when childhood violence, magical thinking, and repressed guilt grow into something that thinks for itself. As the illusionist’s manifestation returns, the protagonist begins to fight back using crude, handmade booby-traps—echoes of childhood games warped into tools of desperation and survival.
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A metaphysical pursuit through illusion, memory, and madness—rooted in the surrealism of Tom & Jerry and the moral descent of Dante’s Inferno.
