Lightning Bug Trailer (2004)

Trailer for Lightning Bug.

Bret Harrison stars as a frustrated teen who dreams of escaping his miserable life in a small Alabama town for a special effects make-up job in Hollywood, creating grisly monsters. His dream may even be in reach when he's hired to design the community's annual Halloween spook house and falls in love with a local girl (Laura Prepon). But there are real monsters in his way, including an abusive stepfather (Kevin Gage, Heat) who terrorizes his mother (Ashley Laurence), a fanatical religious group who attack his work, and his girlfriend's own shocking secret that may destroy their happiness together.