Skate culture is a diverse society, and the group portrayed will reflect this from an African American heroine, to a white non-binary person, to a male Latino wisecrack. Additionally, the horror story is tied to Native myth, African folklore, and modern urban legend each aspect fully represented.

Why do we want to do a film based on the Mini Lights? The Mini Lights are a local legend that we grew up with and continues to scare kids today. It’s a story that has only expanded with time, and become a narrative of loss, rage, injustice, and hope. Mini Lights is unique to St. Petersburg Fl, and we believe it’s time for the story to be documented and told to a wider audience.

We want to scare the adrenaline junkies and terror seekers who troll forums voicing their complaints about the state of modern horror. The horror genre is not catered to a single demographic but is specific to those who love the genre, itself. Those who want to know how scared they can get with the misguiding, reassuring fact that they are safe within their own home. We want to terrify the horror aficionados.

We also want to be fresh. We don’t want to re-use a trope that has been done before: a family being haunted within their own home, or a paranormal investigative team exploring a haunted town.

We were walking through Roser Park, the neighborhood of St. Petersburg, where most of the Mini Lights occurrences have taken place and remembered that the city just broke ground for a skate park to be built in the area. That is when the idea of a Skater Horror Film occurred to us. Skate culture is a diverse cross-section of society and this will be portrayed in the film. Our characters range from an African American Heroine, a non-binary person, and a male Latino wisecrack.

Mini Lights is a coming of age story, an ode to cult classics, a skater film, a horror movie that delves into the emotions of modern day youth finding itself, dealing with family loss, friendship, rivalries, and the terror within us all.