HORROR SCRIPTS
THE HARROWING
Horror, Thriller
Logline: Accused of the ritualistic murder of his best friend, a vice detective bent on finding the truth is plunged into Hell when he goes undercover into a forensic hospital and discovers that demons are real.
Story:
On a routine surveillance operation, things go horribly wrong when a prostitute, a congressman and two vice detectives are slaughtered with a third detective, Calhoun, accused of their murders. Plagued by the death of his partner and the terrifying visions of demons hunting him, Calhoun goes undercover into a forensic hospital where he discovers secret experiments being done on patients and all-too-real demons terrorizing him. Slipping further and further away from reality, Calhoun must discover if he�s insane or if demons really exist.
About: The Harrowing is a tense, atmospheric and terrorizing story that rides the line between sanity and insanity. Filled with a strong personal journey of redemption intermingled with horrifying creature feature sequences, The Harrowing is a mind-bending horror film in the tradition of Jacob�s Ladder, Shutter Island and Angel Heart.
Writer/Director: Jon Keeyes
DARK PLAIN
Supernatural Thriller, Horror
Logline: Leaving behind the misery of the post-Civil War south, a couple�s new life on the Texas prairie takes a dark turn when isolation, paranoia and haunting visions reveal the land�s bloody past and a demonic spirit intent on destroying them.
Story:
Purchased sight unseen from an eerie old man, Isaac and Marah begin a new life on the lonely Texas Prairie in a log cabin. When Marah gives birth to a baby daughter, Regina, and their new crops fail, Isaac takes a three month job away on the railroad to carry them through the winter and give them a source of income for the falling year. Facing the isolation of the plains and the hardship of new motherhood, Marah is unsure if the dark events that begin to unfold around her are in her mind or from another reality. Nearing insanity, help comes to Marah in the form of an outcast Algonquin, a French Jesuit Missionary and the eventual return of her husband. Together, they all must battle the demonic forces seeking to destroy them and consume the daughter�s soul.
About: Set in the late 1860's,Dark Plain is a period piece with a terrifying twist. In the meditative style of Terrence Malick, steeped in Catholic occultism, and imbued with terrifying supernatural sequences, Dark Plain brings a horrifying new level to the excorcism genre.
Writers: Chuck Huber, Jon Keeyes & Matthew Tompkins
Director: Jon Keeyes
LADY MISERY
Horror, Thriller
Logline: A female serial killer and the FBI collide in a desperate game
to protect the life of a woman in a psychiatric institute with the key to
capturing the killer.
Story: Three years earlier, serial killer
Jeanne Weber was captured by the FBI after a series of brutal murders.
Now, Jeanne has escaped the mental institution holding her. In order to
recapture her, the FBI has set a trap using a psychiatric patient named
Natalie as their bait. Jeanne surfaces, issuing a stern proposal to the
authorities: tell her why she kills and she’ll surrender. In a race
against time, as the body count rises, Jeanne and the FBI play a deadly
game of cat and mouse. As the night nears its end, Jeanne’s true intention
comes to light. The FBI realizes their bait may have been Jeanne’s target
all along.
About: Bringing back together director Jon Keeyes and
actress Debbie Rochon of “American Nightmare” fame, Lady Misery is a
disturbing look at the mind of a psychotic killer fraught with
hallucinations in a mind-bending and fast-paced thrill ride that mixes the
best of serial killer horror and psychological thrillers.
Writers:
Jon Keeyes & Debbie Rochon
Director: Jon Keeyes
THE BLOODWALKERS
Horror, Action
Logline: An eclectic group of guests staying in the desolate hill
country of Texas are in for a night of terror when an outlaw-style gang of
vampire-like creatures overruns their hotel.
Story: A mismatched
group of tourists find themselves being terrorized by The
Bloodwalkers – an outlaw-style gang of vampire-like creatures
intent on killing everyone in the hotel. With dawn approaching, and the
body count rising, the few survives will face the greatest battle of their
life.
About: In the tradition of “Near Dark” and “From Dusk till
Dawn,” The Bloodwalkers is a fast paced, violent and
terrifying adventure. Based upon a German legend, these creatures can
shadow-walk, control the dead and see through each other’s eyes. Including
dress, music and production design founded in Texas Outlaw motif,
The Bloodwalkers is an exciting twist on the vampire legend.
Writers: Jon Keeyes & Brandon Baker
Director: Jon Keeyes
THE HELLFIRE CLUB
Horror, Action
Logline: An assassin must unravel the mystery surrounding her true
identity as she battles a horde of demons intent on destroying the barrier
between Hell and Earth.
Story: On the night of her last contract
kill, an assassin named Calli has her reality shattered when she discovers
she is mysteriously tied to an ancient book being used to conjure demons.
Coerced into working with the Hellfire Club, Calli’s team is ambushed and
massacred by Berith, one of Hell’s most powerful demons. Unable to flee
the grasp of The Hellfire Club, Calli is forced to lead a mismatched group
of reluctant heroes. Fight after fight with hell’s spawn, Calli must
unravel the mystery about her own identity and stop Berith before he
destroys the barrier between Hell and Earth.
About: Part “La Femme
Nikita,” part “Lara Croft,” part “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” The
Hellfire Club is a highly stylized action and horror film.
Promising an incredible visual look, unique costuming and a fantastical
take on thrillers, The Hellfire Club has all the elements to
make it a franchisable horror/action film with long lasting cult appeal.
Director/Writer: Jon Keeyes
THE GATHERING
Horror, Anthology
Logline: The Devil gathers four of history’s greatest horror writers to
share their scariest stories on Halloween.
Story: It’s All Hallow’s
Eve in purgatory and the Devil has gathered Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker,
H.P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley for a night of storytelling; the winner
receiving whatever they desire. Between snide remarks and bickering
rivalries, each takes a turn unveiling their tales that include vampires,
werewolves, zombies, ghosts, serial killers, and mad scientists.
About: The Gathering follows the successful anthology format
with the Devil and the horror authors rounding out the framework. All
popular with enormous cult followings, this modern take on the
personalities and quirks of these literary legends is often hysterical and
genuinely macabre. Contained within the inner stories are unique and
original tales that will appeal to the broad mass of horror enthusiasts.
Writer: Carl Kirshner
Director: Jon Keeyes
DREAMING THE DARK
Horror, Supernatural Thriller
Logline: The line between a woman’s waking world and dream world are
blurred when she begins having nightmares of the apocalypse.
Story:
Following a car accident, a pregnant woman begins dreaming of two men that
urge her to kill her unborn child. As the men begin to appear more
frequently, her sleep becomes filled with apocalyptic nightmares and she
finds herself loosing her sanity - reality and her dream world become
intermingled. Struggling for answers - and running from the all-too-real
visions of the men and her son- she is led down a terrifying path toward
the ultimate decision as to the fate of her child.
About:
Dreaming the Dark taps into the fear of nightmares and the terror
that the sleeping world can bring. With well-developed characters and a
plot that blurs the edges of reality and keeps the audience guessing,
Dreaming the Dark falls in with films like “Rosemary’s Baby”
and “The Seventh Sign” while forcing the audience to deal with their own
fear of nightmares and the everlasting question, "what is reality?".
Writer/Director: Jon Keeyes
VAST
Sci-Fi Horror
Logline: A research scientist unlocks the mystery of genetic memory and
unleashes a horrible fate upon mankind.
Story: Struggling with the
death of his brother, a graduate research scientist is about to break the
code for genetic memory that will provide unbelievable cures for people
with mental illness. But when his funding falls through, an enigmatic
European doctor steps in to ensure the research continues. As they move
into human experimentation, they unlock the mysteries of memory and
discover a much older race than mankind living within our DNA. With the
genetic door open, the patients begin to revert back to their primordial
selves; vicious monsters with an extraterrestrial past.
About:
Vast is a science fiction story in the tradition of H.P.
Lovecraft. Using modern medicine and genetic research, combined with
horrifying monsters and extraterrestrial mythology, Vast
will be a winner for fans of the “Re-Animator” series, “From Beyond” and
all the great sci-horror films inspired by H.P. Lovecraft.
Writer:
Clay Liford
Director: Jon Keeyes
SURVIVING THEM
Horror, Action
Logline: A ragtag group of survivors of a mysterious epidemic struggle
to maintain their daily lives while dealing with their neighbors who have
turned their sleepy Texas town into a land of the walking dead.
Story: Travis, the Sheriff of a small Texas town, is doing his best to
maintain order after zombies have obliterated the local citizenry. Those
who remain meet daily at the Los Cinco Santos diner for coffee and food to
see who is still alive and who has been 'put down'. With inner strife
amongst the survivors, old rivalries raised anew, and passions heated,
sometimes the citizens are more trouble that the zombies. Unfortunately
for them, they don't realize this is the last 24 hours of their lives.
About: Drawing on the continued success of the zombie genre,
Surviving Them is a fast paced, action filled, sometimes funny and
always horrifying genre thriller ripe with crisp dialogue, perverse
characters and good ole' Texas horror grit.
Writer: Charles Burnley
& Terry Yates
Director: Jon Keeyes
THE NIGHTMARE BOX
Horror, Drama, Surreal
Logline: A woman wakes up in a strange remove with no memory of who she is or how she got there.
Story: A woman wakes up trapped inside a room with no memory of her past. As times ticks by, a bizarre mix of real and surreal characters visits her; some seeming to aid her while others torment her. Unable to escape, she must put together the pieces of a riddle to discover who she is and how she got here. But when she discovers the truth of her past, she might wish she had instead remained a prisoner to the horrors of the room.
About: The Nightmare Box is a venture into sexual guilt through experimental horror where terror and art are combined. With the entire story contained to one room, this stylized character study is a terrifying journey through the mind of insanity.
Director/Writer: Jon Keeyes
