Patrick Houser

Endangered Species -- An animated homage to the great, classical moments of animation's history.

A nightmare come to life, Adam "The Spiker" Brandis is a massive pink-eyed albino and a maniac killing machine whose physical endurance borders on the supernatural. He escapes from an asylum and returns to the small town he terrorized years before, where he slashed his victims to pieces with railroad spikes and buried the bodies under the train tracks outside of town. When a group of local teens decide to camp out at an abandoned house, they are attacked by The Spiker and discover a web of terrible secrets hidden there.

Harkin (Patrick Houser) picks up a hitchhiker (Tracy N. Smith) heading to a Lake Tahoe ski resort. Once there, Harkin joins up with a party-loving group of skiers led by Dan (David Naughton), a New Yorker. When the mix of young men and women are not shaking down into couples, attention focuses on the competition with the world ski champ Rudi Garmischt (John Patrick Reger) -- eventually leading to a spectacular sequence of skiing artistry down the snowy slopes, a tour-de-force that rivals scenes from the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

It's all about skin and skiing. Our hero is pure as the driven snow and the best freestyle skier around -- a shoo-in to be the first American to win the world-freestyle title in several years. But he has some stiff competition from a nasty Austrian.