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Day 15 Assignments
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2. In this lesson, I learned how to write out and scrutinize my horror outline by working it into a readable format.
1. Using the instructions above, rewrite your Horror Outline.
1. EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREET – DAY
Construction trucks sit parked outside a house. The sound of hammering can be heard inside the house.
2. INT. HOUSE / DINING ROOM – DAY
A worker hammers nails into a wall. He is attacked and killed by his co-worker. His radio crackles as the killing takes place.
NOTE: OPENING-SCENE
Horror Situation: The worker is taunted/stalked by the monster.
ANXIETY: a knocking coming from
within the wall
SURPRISE: a pair of eyes
appear, staring out through a hole in the wall
RELEASE: a mouse appears, it
was only a mouse
ANXIETY: the knocking starts
again
FEAR: the knocking grows louder;
a shadow appears on the wall from something behind
PANIC: a hammer comes down on
the worker, and worker turns around to try and defend himself,
ANGUISH: the hammer falls
repeatedly as the worker lies helplessly on the floor, stunned and
realizing his fate3. INT. HOUSE / DINING ROOM – NIGHT
A disorganized family gets ready to have dinner. The mother and daughter of the family arrive late. The father of the family becomes frustrated with a crackling radio and throws it away. An empty highchair sits at the table. The mother leaves the room crying. The son and home caretaker leave together.
4. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The daughter and mother talk. The father watches from the corner of the room as the mother and daughter discuss the death of her younger daughter and the father’s alcoholism. The father leaves in a huff, prompting the mother to try and go after him.
5. INT. GROCERY STORE – DAY
The daughter runs into a neighbor at the store. The neighbor tries to convince them to leave before the lockdown.
6. EXT. HOUSE – DAY
The son and caretaker walk along the garden. They discuss how paranoia effects the characters in Macbeth. The mother finds a small stone marker while gardening. She tries to dig it up yet can’t find the bottom of it. She finds a skeleton, which prompts her to go inside and wash her hands. She sees something in the mirror.
Horror Situation: The mother digs up an animal skeleton.
ANXIETY: the mother sees
cryptic runes on a stone marker in the yard
SURPRISE: as she digs, she
finds a skeleton
RELEASE: the skeleton is only
that of a rabbit7. INT. HOUSE / BATHROOM – DAY
The mother washes her hands in the sink. She sees something in the mirror that makes her angry.
8. INT. HOUSE / WORKEROOM – DAY
The mother barges in on the father in his workroom, having a day drink. The two argue.
9. INT. HOUSE / LIBRARY – NIGHT
The caretaker, daughter, and son get the radio working again. They hear that the lockdown will be going into effect tomorrow. The caretaker finds an odd book on the bookshelf. The father interrupts, looking for the mother.
10. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The family sits down to have dinner again, this time with the empty chair farther away from the table. The mother has not arrived. The daughter does upstairs and leaves a plate outside the mother’s room next two a few empty plates.
11. EXT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The son is drawing outside and notices one of the shadows of a tree is bent. He follows it, finding his sister along the way. They find that it ends at the stone marker. The mother stumbles up behind them and collapses, hitting her head on the stone marker.
Horror Situation:
SURPRISE: the mother suddenly
appears behind the son and daughter
SHOCK: the mother collapses,
hitting her head on the rockACT II
12. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The family sits down to have dinner. Everyone attends and seems a lot happier.
14. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The family sits down to have dinner. Everyone attends and seems a lot happier.
15. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The family sits down to have dinner. Everyone attends and seems a lot happier.
16. EXT. HOUSE – DAY
The father throws out a full case of beer
17. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The caretaker, son talk as the daughter tries to make calls external to the house. She can’t connect. She looks out the window. The neighborhood is empty.
18. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The family sits down to have dinner. Everyone attends and seems a lot happier, though the mother is missing.
19. INT. HOUSE – NIGHT
The daughter goes upstairs after dinner to check on her mother. She finds the bedroom door open, but the bathroom door closed. She hears whispering inside. She opens the door to find her mother staring into the mirror.
Horror Situation:
SUSPENSE: the daughter hears
someone whispering in the bedroom
DREAD: she goes to investigate
RELEASE: it is the radio
playing. She turns it off
SUSPENSE: she can still hear
whispering. It is coming from the bathroom
DREAD: she approaches the door
and calls for her mom
FEAR: she hears a scream. She
opens the door and her mother is staring into the mirror20. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The daughter answers a knock at the door. She tries to convince the rations dealer that they need help. The rations dealer gets aggressive before leaving.
Horror Situation:
SUSPENSE: the rations dealer
places his hand on a gun on his hip
FEAR: the rations dealer points
the gun at the daughter and backs away from the door slowly21. INT. HOUSE – DAY
A week has passed, and the house is mostly empty. The father is in his workroom. The daughter is trying to call out while her brother is drawing. Their mother is staring out a window upstairs.
22. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The caretaker studies the book she found upstairs as well as a few others. The daughter enters the room. They talk about her mother and what might be possessing her.
23. INT. HOUSE / DINING ROOM – NIGHT
The family sits down for dinner. The mother and father get into an argument. It is revealed that the mother believes she can bring her baby daughter back to life. The father gets frustrated at this and smacks his wife across the face. He retreats to his workroom.
24. INT. HOUSE / LIBRARY – NIGHT
The mother and father argue in the room below the library. The caretaker, son, and daughter debate what should be done. The son decides he needs to go get help and leaves. The daughter and caretaker watch as he approaches an officer in the distance. He is shot.
Horror Situation:
DREAD: the son goes out of the
house into the night to find help
SUSPENSE: a guard starts
walking towards him
RELEASE: the son and guard stop
– appear to talk
SUSPENSE: the guard starts backing
away
FEAR: the guard lifts a gun up
and points it at the son
ANGUISH: the guard shoots the
son25. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The mother walks the halls of the house trancelike. She makes herself breakfast. The daughter enters and tries to talk about what happened, but her mother seems completely out of it.
26. INT. HOUSE / WORKROOM – DAY
The caretaker enters the workroom and finds the father barely alive. The mother finds them.
Horror Situation:
ANGUISH: the caretaker find the
father dying
PANIC: the door opens behind
her. It is the mother
HORROR: the caretaker realizes
the mother must have done this27. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The daughter hears a rhythmic muffled hammering noise coming from downstairs. She goes to investigate.
28. INT. HOUSE / WORKROOM – DAY
The daughter finds the workroom with both her father’s and the caretaker’s bodies strewn across the floor.
Horror Situation:
ANGUISH: the daughter finds her
father and the caretaker dead
PANIC: the door behind her
creaks. She turns around
RELEASE: no one is in the door
PANIC: suddenly, mother appears
and takes a swing at her daughter from behind
HORROR: the daughter realizes
her mother must have killed them and runs
HYSTERIA: the daughter runs
screaming and crying through the house29. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The daughter runs up to the foyer and finds the rations delivery person dead.
Horror Situation:
ANGUISH: the daughter finds the
rations delivery person dead
PANIC: the daughter hears her
mother calling to her from behind30. INT. HOUSE / MOTHER’S ROOM – DAY
The daughter retreats into her mother’s room. Her mother starts pounding on the door, then stops. The daughter explores the room for an object to defend herself. She finds the mirror and sees that the glass has been scratched.
31. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The mother explores the house looking for something to burn it down with.
32. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The daughter discovers numerous thigns including a bloody book. She realizes this is the book the caretaker found. As she looks back at the mirror she sees an image of her mother lighting a fire and knows what is happening.
33. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The mother dumps gasoline on the floor. The daughter interrupts her and tries to restrain her. They fight and the mother overpowers her daughter. The daughter stabs her mother.
Horror Situation:
PANIC: the daughter fighter her
mother
ANGUISH: the daughter momentarily
has her mother pinned but can’t bring herself to hurt her
PANIC: the mother regains
advantage
HYSTERIA: the daughter stabs
her mother with a pair of scissors and completely loses it34. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The daughter starts to leave the room and call for help out the front door.
35. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The mother attacks from behind. The daughter flees into the lower level of the house.
36. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The mother pursues her daughter, searching for her.
Horror Situation:
SUSPENSE: the daughter hides in
the workroom
SURPRISE: the mother turns
around and finds the daughter37. INT. HOUSE – DAY
The daughter flees and runs over a pit of rickety wood. The mother tries to follow and plummets to her death.
38. INT. CAR – DAY
The daughter rides in a car with an officer. The officer asks her questions. She grasps a book tightly. As they round a corner, she takes a pair of scissors and stabs the officer.
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Chris Grant’s Horror Outline Version 1
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” This is still a work in progress. I haven’t identified my emotion elements yet but they are all in place. I think I still have a few more scenes to identify. But I’m happy with the way this has progressed.
ACT 1 — SET UP FOR HORROR
1. EXT. ISLA DE LOS MUERTOS – SUNSET
A fisherman, Senor Cordova, stands on the bow of a small FIBRAS, an open outboard-powered fishing boat. He yanks out a pin, the one that holds his engine to the back of his boat. With a splash, it falls and sinks into the water.
He looks out across the ocean steps up onto the ledge and stares into the perilous sea.
All around him in the water, men swim for their lives. He’s surrounded by screaming.
He utters a curse to the sea. This is how we bring about our damnation, by ignoring the sea that begs us to stop. To stop while there’s still time. DAMN all those who sin here. They have brought the monster upon themselves. It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.
So be it. My son will avenge me. He is the immortal chosen one. My son will redeem our souls. So be it.”
All around him, the sound of gunfire. Below him in the water, the ocean begins to boil. The fishermen swim for their lives. Suddenly, one of them is yanked down. Then another. An unseen force rips them apart as they fight for their lives.
“The devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that’s in me should set hell on fire. So be it.”
Senor Cordova smiles, closes his eyes, and steps into the froth. He floats for a moment, laughing at his fear. Suddenly, he too is dragged under by some malevolent force.
Blood rises to a boil on the sea. Nothing but birds left to feed on the dead bodies.
His curse echoes out across the water. “This is our sea. Ours by birth. Ours by trade. Ours by life. Ours by responsibility. Avenge it or join us. The sea consumes as it gives. All are part of its glory or grave.”
2. EXT. BEACHES OF ST. ELENA – NIGHT/DAY
That night, a furious storm ravages the shoreline of Esmeraldas, Ecuador. The ocean seems to punish the shore for its transgressions. Trees, fall, waves crash and lightning fills the skies.
The villagers are spooked. They haven’t seen the sea this angry in years.
3. EXT. STREETS OF QUITO – DAY
Cristian Cordova is an outcast from his fishing village.
He lives in Quito, pretending to go to school, but spending his time doing drugs. He suffers from visions. Horrible images that he’s suffered from since childhood.
His mother calls him to return to their village.
His father didn’t come home from his latest fishing expedition and she’s worried. Cristian tells his mother he’ll get on a bus and come home.
He can barely get himself together to leave his apartment.
4. EXT ROADS OF ECUADOR – DAY
The 5 hour trip from Quito to the Esmeraldas is like traveling back in time. Cristian arrives in his hometown of St. Elena at dawn, a small fishery village mixed of traditional indigenous culture and industrialized fleets.
5. EXT ST ELENA HARBOR – DAWN
Cristian steps off the bus in his hometown. No one awaits him. His hands shake from withdrawal.
He finds his mother staring out at the sea.
He promises her that he will find him.
She’s sorry he’s had to return for this reason.
She knows he left town because of his father.
6. EXT. HARBOR – MORNING
The fishermen are angry. Their numbers are dwindling fast. They have boats but no men. They’re losing their way of living quickly.
The beaches are a disaster. The ocean has vomited up on the shore.
Cristian tells them it’s global warming.
They tell him to fuck off back to Quito.
They believe Cristian’s return is a bad omen.
He’s been ostracized in his village.
His father is the reason why.
Cristian hates being back here. He’s been bullied and mistreated by the other fishermen in the village since he was a child. His complete mentality is based on his hatred for them.
He doesn’t want to return to this cursed place.
7. EXT. BEACH – DAY
A lone boat sits on the shore. It belongs to Senor Cordova.
Not far away, a mutilated body appears in the sand. Crabs and worms eat at it. It’s one of the fishermen from the village.
Men have been disappearing for weeks. Some report seas of boiling blood and froth.
The fishermen are spooked by warnings of sea monsters preying upon them. The sea is cursing them for some unknown reason.
Cristian examines the body. It appears torn, with bite marks everywhere. Suddenly, it sits up, stares at him, and sighs – from rigor mortis and heat from the morning sun. The men completely freak out.
Cristian warns them something is wrong. This kind of damage to a body isn’t natural and this man did not die from drowning.
When no one else is looking, the corpse speaks to Cristian. It warns him to beware of the RED DEVILS.
8. INT. DOCK SIDE BAR – NIGHT
The fishermen sit around the harbor bar getting drunk and cursing their misfortune. They fight about what to do. Some are afraid. Others disregard the warnings. Some of them intend to head back out with the first tide.
The Harbormaster tells them they are just superstitious drunks.
Cristian shows up to inquire with the Harbor Master about his father’s boat.
The fishermen don’t want to see him in their bar. They think he’s a bad omen. Cristian isn’t one to back down from being bullied.
Outside the bar, they beat him up for showing up and spoiling their season.
9. INT. BACK PORCH FACING THE SEA. – NIGHT
Cristian nurses his wounds and turns to his drugs.
He gets high out back of his mother’s shack.
Watching the ocean, he has a vision of his lost father. The ghost of Senor Cordova tells him he is both lucky and cursed. His father is hard on him. Cristian doesn’t understand why his father made him an outcast in the village. He hates him for it.
His hallucinations seem to be drug-induced.
Part of the PTSD that Cristian has with his father.
His mother tries to console him but they are long past that stage of comfort. She warns that the drugs will destroy him. He tells his mother that his father made sure he wouldn’t die.
He’s the immortal one.
10. EXT. HARBOR MOUTH – NIGHT
That night the sea punishes them once again.
The wind howls and the ocean tumbles.
11. EXT. HARBOR MORNING – NIGHT
The next morning, the harbor is left empty of water. Every boat is left on the sinking wet sand. The fishermen are furious they can’t go out.
Cristian wonders if it’s his father’s curse. The fishermen decide to burn his boat in effigy. Cristian’s mother begs them not to destroy it. It’s all they have. But they will not be placated.
12. EXT. HARBOR – NIGHT
They burn his father’s boat. It has no motor anyway so what use is it? Some of the fishermen ask why the sea monsters would eat the boat motors.
Cristian tells them they’re all stupid. Before they can beat him up again, the Harbor Master arrives.
He is furious they would treat someone they grew up with this way. He is Cristian’s uncle. He understands why Cristian has turned to drugs but he can’t change Cristian’s position in this village, full of superstitious morons.
Cristian wants to leave but cannot. His mother would be left with nothing. He must find out what happened to his father but there’s no way the fishermen will allow him to go out to sea.
13. EXT HARBOR. – MORNING
The next day, the tides return. The fishermen think the danger has passed and head back to the sea.
Cristian turns to his Uncle for help. Turns out his uncle the Harbor Master is also connected with the Narcos working in the area. Esmeraldas is known for two things – fishing and drug running.
The Harbor Master tells Cristian he can work for him to deliver a shipment. Narcos 1 and 2 can take him to the Isla de los Muertos to see about his father.
Cristian decides to take the job despite the nature of the work. He figures it’s his only way to find out what happened to his father. He’ll also be able to use the money to buy a new boat for his mother. His uncle tells him there will be drugs on board so he won’t go dry.
Cristian’s mother wants to come with him but he won’t let her.
ACT 2 — THE POINT OF NO RETURN
14. EXT OCEAN – DAY
Narcos 1 + 2 aren’t from the village. One of them speaks to Cristian and one of them doesn’t. They don’t know each other very well.
They will take him to the Isla de los Muertos where his father was last seen but he has to take the entire journey to get back. They won’t tell him much else about the work. Their rendezvous will meet them at the island. They tell Cristian that, to make the delivery way out at sea, they need a bigger motor. Or combine two motors. Otherwise, they won’t make it.
As if listening, the ocean starts to swell. Cristian gets seasick. He wasn’t made for this kind of life.
Narco 2 is naive, just past his teenage years, but friendly. This kid thinks this is the way out of his life back home. Cristian relates to him.
15. EXT OPEN SEA – DAY
Cristian suffers from withdrawal. He’s offered drugs.
On the way out, listening to Iron Maiden. Cristian and Narco 2 do drugs together. The day is pretty fun as they cruise across the sea. They have a lot in common. Narco 2 doesn’t believe Cristian is a bad omen.
A squid flies next to the boat. A bunch of them do. Cristian watches as it glides over the surface of the water using its body as a sail.
The squid is what the locals call The Red Devil. Cristian says he’s never seen them so big.
Strange to see so many of them near the surface during the day. They are generally night feeders.
He tells them he was studying in Quito to become a marine biologist. Never really made it to class though. He did it to please his mother.
16. EXT OPEN SEA – AFTERNOON
Still high, Cristian has another vision of his father. He sees him in the water, thrashing, and screaming. Cristian can barely keep his eyes closed.
Narco 1 wakes him up. He’s been screaming in his sleep.
17. EXT. OPEN SEA – AFTERNOON.
Along the way, they become entangled in a vast array of fishing nets in the ocean. Ghost nets lie everywhere in the ocean, trapping and killing all life.
They’ve entered a giant marine graveyard.
The Narcos don’t care about the nets. They say it’s a sign of the bad fishing times.
Happened in their village as well…
Cristian understands that the ghost nets are going to cause problems for the boats if they can’t see them coming.
18. EXT. -3.1793068079250313, -80.43770094109634 ISLA DE LOS MUERTOS – EVENING
As they approach the islands, the nets grow thicker and spread out everywhere. Just offshore the jagged rocks are within swimming distance but offer no shoreline or easy exit from the water.
Cristian has to swim into the nets to try and free the boat.
He dives in to see what’s up. It’s like swimming through a graveyard of rotting animals.
He encounters two sharks, caught by the tail, struggling to get free, with nasty bite wounds taken out of them. Hanging upside down, jaws bouncing agape, they look like smiling, saw-toothed demons, peering at him through the hazy water. Their bodies are covered in writhing sea worms eating away at their milky white gills.
Down on the bottom, Cristian can see the ends of the fishing nets. One net is tangled around a sunken engine twisting on the propeller. It stretches out like a drifting trap. Across the water he can see hooks and tethers of other nets, all connected. In them, thousands of dead fish and sea animals.
On the other side of the net a large black eye, peers at him. He startles, pulls away, and goes for air. It’s a squid that moves and watches him. It reaches a curious tentacle through the net. It caresses his face. He lets it. He reaches out to touch it when just above, the engine of his boat revs.
He surfaces and says the ocean around this island is a graveyard. The Narcos laugh. “That’s why they call it Isla de los Muertos.”
They continue on their journey.
19. EXT ISLA DE LOS MUERTOS LATE – AFTERNOON
Arriving at the island, the Narcos reveal they have guns.
They pull up on the fisherman and fire into the air.
Many of the boats flee. One in the center does not. He has nets in the water and won’t go back empty-handed.
The Narcos say they don’t want to shoot anyone but they will if they have to.
They offer them an option, give them their engine and swim for shore or be shot and killed.
Cristian has been deceived. They are there to steal the motors from the fisherman.
Cristian realizes that he’s made a mistake and must solve this problem. But there’s no way he’s going to talk his way out of this mess.
20. EXT. TANGLED GHOST NETS DRIFT – SUNSET
Fisherman 1, the man who beat Cristian up in the village, is not having it. He recognizes the other Narcos with Cristian. They’ve all fished this coastline before. He points out that they are now robbing their brothers.
Cristian is forced to board the fisherman’s bot at gunpoint to un-hitch the engine. He’s been tricked by the Narcos into stealing for them and isn’t afraid to say it.
Fisherman 1 hates that Cristian is the one who is trying to ruin him. He calls him a useless drug addict. A struggle ensues.
The leader of the Narcos fires his gun in the air. Fisherman 2 jumps overboard and starts swimming out to sea.
Fisherman 1 overpowers Cristian and dumps the engine in the water. It immediately sinks.
Narco 1 loses his patience. He looks down and sees the Red Devils. They’ve begun to surround the boat like a giant pack. Their bodies flash on and off from red to white as they surface.
He orders Narco 2 to fire at the water. Narco 2 has never fired a gun before. He aims at the water. One of the squid is hit. Blood and ink spurt everywhere.
A feeding frenzy begins as the squid attack the injured one and drags it down for consumption. The water churns. These animals are so hungry they will cannibalize their own
Fisherman 1 is told to swim for the island, but he knows what’s about to happen. He tells Cristian he’ll say hi to his father for him.
Fisherman 1 dives down. That first moment when you jump in the water and you can’t see what’s going on beneath the surface, he dives and sees he’s already surrounded.
He spins around just as a blood-red squid attacks his head. He struggles against it, surfaces trying to get air, and screams for help. He’s pulled down by his legs into the water.
Cristian reaches for him but he’s pulled down too fast.
Fisherman 1 fights against the squid.
Cristian can see that when he twists, the squid lets go momentarily. They take bites out of Fisherman 1 tearing chunks of flesh. He screams underwater, his voice traveling back up to the surface.
25 feet down in the nets, he drowns. And the squid dismember him quickly. Cristian is forced to watch as the fisherman from his village is eaten.
The water is filled with red squid and red blood.
21. EXT. DRIFTING IN THE NETS – SUNSET
The Narcos say Cristian fought valiantly. He’s not stupid. He knows what’s up. Narco 1 pulls him back into the boat. He says that nobody has to get hurt. They just need to do what they are told.
Narco 2, freaked by what he’s just seen, wants to go home. Narco 1 explains they must deliver the engine or they will also be killed. If they don’t get this engine they too will be set adrift and their families killed. “Welcome to Hell. Nobody cares if you come back.”
Cristian wants to fight back against what’s happening but cannot. He knows now this is how his father must have been killed. He goes along with the Narcos to get his revenge.
Could his father’s body be trapped in these nets?
22. EXT IN THE NETS – SUNSET
To deliver the drugs to the freighter offshore they need the engine that has now submerged. The engine is caught about 15 feet below the surface, dangling in the nets.
The Narcos know if they don’t deliver the engine they will most likely be shot as well. But the boat that Cristian is on is damaged from bullet holes and taking on water.
They can see to the bottom of the clear blue water. Where the shoals meet the reefs, the ghost nets float everywhere. The morass of the dead is what attracted the squid in the first place.
Cristian watches the squid darting about in the ghost nets. They are trapped in a killing circle. He says the Red Devil likes fresh kills. Their flashing red bodies are hunger displays.
One of them stares up at him from just below the surface. He can see its eye considering him.
23. EXT. GOING AFTER THE MOTOR – NIGHT
Cristian fights with the other Narcos about what to do.
If they kill him, then they will have to swim for the motor. He has no choice but to dive back in while they distract him.
Somebody has to go into the water to free that engine.
They get a call. They have to be ready for the rendezvous and they need two engines. Worse, their engine has become caught in the nets.
24. EXT DOWN IN THE WATER WITH THE SQUID – NIGHT
Cristian is told to get in the water and free the motor of the boat that’s become entangled in the nets.
Cristian agrees to go into the water if the Drug Dealers can cover him. He tells them not to fire at the squid while he’s in the water
He takes a deep breath and pushes himself below the water line. He’s careful to not splash or make any fast movements. He shines the light. It attracts the squid. It almost seems as if they are curious about it.
Everywhere, dead fish are trapped in the nets, their decaying bodies cause the water to cloud up. The nets shift and drag with the current and make the dead rotting carcasses appear to dance and writhe.
Holding his breath, Cristian lowers himself below the keel. He searches the depths for signs of the squid and sees the bottom, about 30 feet down.
Nets cover everything.
Above, Narco 1 holds a gaffing hook stating he will just stab a squid if it comes close. He thinks he has a chance to get one, but he’s pretty clumsy with the weapon.
Under the boat in the darkness, Cristian can see the net is tightly wound around the motor.
He only needs to get a wench rope around the engine. The squid are on the other side of the net. They reach for him but can’t get to him.
He takes the opportunity to swap two fuel lines on the engine, the same way the fisherman tied the lines on his father’s boat to burn it.
He makes it back out of the water. The engine can be raised, but both boats are stuck in the nets.
Any attempts to free their boats from the nets only make it worse.
25. EXT RAISING THE ENGINE – NIGHT
They call their contact who is furious they have screwed up. He’s out on the water as well and will come to intercept them.
2nd half of 2nd Act
26. EXT FREEING THE NETS – NIGHT
Since they are all fishermen, the Narcos start to reel in the nets on the boats. They are full of stinking dead fish.
The body of the first fisherman rolls out of the net onto Narco 1. He freaks out as the partially eaten body drapes over him. He fears that they will all be eaten.
Narco 1 pushes the body back overboard.
27. EXT RAISING THE ENGINE – NIGHT
They manage to hoist the motor back up out of the water. They must get it back up and running. Cristian knows that it’s rigged to catch fire. It’s waterlogged so they let it drain. He tells them not to turn the engine over until it’s had a chance to dry.
28. EXT. HARBOR MASTER ARRIVES – NIGHT
Their contact is the Harbor Master. He arrives in another boat accompanied by two other gunmen. He sees the other boats loaded with nets and laughs at these pathetic fishermen who can’t catch a fish in an ocean full of nets.
Their boat is heavy in the water, it has a large trunk on the deck strapped down. He offers Cristian drugs. Cristian refuses even though he’s having heavy withdrawal.
The Harbor Master knows it.
Cristian confronts his uncle and asks him why he’s doing this. The Harbor Master’s answer is to sacrifice a man to the Red Devils. His boat is too heavy and they need ballast.
He fires his machine gun into the water and forces the man to jump.
As the man screams, he explains to the horrified group this is a dog-eat-dog world and the Chinese are off the coast taking all the fish in this region. In a couple of years, the island will be dead. “They’ll move on and leave us to perish. So I’m getting out while I can.”
Besides, he has a gun to his head as well, and it’s 50 miles out to sea waiting for his cargo. This trunk of cocaine will get him away from this Hell. But he has to sail through it first.
He orders the Narcos to drag the boats together so they can transfer the motors.
29. EXT. PULLING THE BOATS TOGETHER – NIGHT
Cristian sees his chance to sabotage the engine but the Harbor Master reveals another horror. The sacrificed man’s wife is below in the hold. She comes out screaming. He intends to turn her into a sex slave to pay back her transit to the United States.
The woman pulls a knife and goes after the Harbor Master. He fights her back but not before she gets him with a knife.
The smugglers try to start the engine but immediately cause a fire from Cristian’s rewiring.
Several of the smuggled Narcos are forced to jump into the water while the flames consume them, set upon by the angry squid.
In the dark of night, the boats sink fast.
The Harbor Master realizes Cristian has sabotaged his operation.
30. EXT. BURNING BOATS – NIGHT
The Harbor Master orders Cristian and the girl to be shackled to the sinking boat. He offers mercy from the devil and orders Narco 1 to shoot them before they enter the water. He refuses. Narco 1 has had enough. He begs his family and his God to forgive him for what he has done.
He raises his gun to shoot the Harbor Master, but he’s shot first and falls into the water.
31. EXT. UNDERWATER – NIGHT
People shackled together in the water try to escape but get tangled up in the nets. The Harbor Master reminds Cristian that he is the immortal one. Now they are going to put that to the test.
They must try to unshackle themselves from the sinking boat before they enter the water.
The dilemma gets worse, as burning is no alternative to being eaten. Cristian has to free himself and the woman before they are dragged down by the squid.
Fortunately, the flames on the surface repel the squid away from him. Others are not so lucky. He swings his flashlight to scare them but they can’t be stopped.
The squid pulls the other Narcos down one-by-one.
The water fills with blood and the terrible screams of a man who is both burning and being eaten at the same time.
Cristian unshackles himself and the woman by grinding their cuffs on a spinning boat motor.
He dives down below the feeding squid. The ghost nets are full of the dead bodies of fishermen. There he sees his father, staring back at him, horribly disfigured and covered in slime.
The squid can be fought off one-on-one but not in groups. The woman frees herself. Together she and Christian surface underneath one of the sinking boats.
The squid try to get at them but cannot get around the nets.
But the boats start to drift apart. All are sinking. Bodies float all around them. They must decide what to do – swim for shore or stay and fight. She decides to swim for it. Cristian will stay and fight to divert them from her. And he can’t let his uncle get away from this.
She suggests that revenge isn’t going to help anyone.
It will just leave him dead. He says that he has to free the nets and settle up with his uncle.
With a powerful kick, she swims away from the nets and around out to sea. The Harbor Master tries to fire at her but misses.
ACT 3 — FULL OUT HORROR
32. EXT. GHOST NETS – NIGHT
The boats start to sink. One of the remaining Narcos grabs a pole and starts to stab at the squid that surround the boat. He unsettles it. The container of cocaine falls into the water. The Harbor Master, furious, orders him to swim after it. He refuses.
They fight and the boat tips them into the water. The last Narco almost makes it to the container before he’s pulled down.
The Harbor Master won’t give up on the drugs.
He wastes bullets on Cristian who is on the other side of the boat. He can’t believe what Cristian has done to his plans. He’s ruined everything.
33. EXT. SINKING BOATS. – NIGHT
The Harbor Master offers Cristian a deal. Together they can still save their own lives and deliver the drugs. He tries to make a call on his cell phone but gets no service.
Cristian tells his uncle that his brother is down in the nets where he sent him. The Harbor Master tells him that his father deserved it. He was cruel to Cristian his entire life. And he was standing in the way of his plans. So his time had come. He’s sure Cristian doesn’t miss him.
Cristian realizes the only way out of the nets is to cut them loose so they can drift. He’ll have to swim down again and cut them loose from the motors on the bottom. But how can he do it?
He finds a bag of cocaine floating. It’s bubble-wrapped. The entire metal container is buoyant. He holds the bag up so his uncle can see it and cuts it open. The Harbor Master screams that they will both die if he does that.
Cristina covers his entire body in white powder and announces that he is the immortal one. Lightning strikes the skies. The angry sea awakens. Cristian’s strange prophecy is fulfilled.
34. EXT. ALMOST IN THE WATER. DAWN
Cristian, now cut and bleeding, understands the only way to be free of this mess is to cut it all loose from the bottom. He remembers the sharks he saw earlier and the engines on the bottom.
The squid fight to get at Cristian through the nets. As the entire mass moves, they find ways to get through.
Lightning strikes and scatters the squid long enough for him to swim through them. Down in the darkness, as he struggles for air, he sees his father’s body tangled and half-eaten, staring at him with one eye.
The ghost speaks to him – “All are free now. All are free.”
He cuts the ghost nets anchored on the bottom and frees the boat wreckage so it can drift free and away from the swarming squid.
Slowly the anchors give and the net is dragged off by the current. Cristian is dragged along by it. He can’t swim back to the boat. He watches as his father drifts away with the tidal pull.
He shines his flashlight underwater. The squid are now everywhere. A squid pulls up in front of him. Just as before, it seems more curious than dangerous.
He flashes it on and off. It seems to mimic him. Others do the same.
Suddenly, bullets pierce the water all around him. The squid re-frenzy. Cristian swims through them directly. Tentacles grab at him, blood in the water.
He surfaces to the Harbor Master laughing. “It’s beautiful Cristian. Beautiful.
Don’t you see the irony?” You’re the only person out here who wants those drugs more than I do.”
He laughs and shoots the water around Cristian riling up the squid in the bloody mess of water.
One end of the container bobs in the froth. Christian swims for it. There’s a handle. He pulls himself out of the water with a huge squid attached to his legs. He fights with his hands and teeth as it tries to pull him back into the water. He bites one of its arms off and it dives back into the water. The other squid attack it immediately.
The Harbor Master’s boat sinks. He fires at the squid and intentionally riles them up to a new frenzy. He tells Cristian that the drugs are now his only way home. “Good luck. I’ll see you at the bottom!”
A squid leaps from the water and lands on his head. He falls into the frenzied water and is pulled down. The Red devils tear his body apart while he’s still alive and screaming.
35. EXT. FLOATING CRATE OF COCAINE. – SUNRISE
Cristian manages to cling to one corner of the container. With the squid lapping at his feet, he watches the sunrise, cast adrift in a sea full of red.
The woman, having swum for her life, has managed to make it to the beach of the island.
She screams out for Cristian, but can’t see him anymore.
Cristian is set adrift at sea floating on a trunk full of cocaine. With the sunrise, the squid disappear to the deeper waters.
He sees his uncle’s cell phone floating next to him. He grabs it, and dials – no signal.
He talks to his mother anyway and tells her he’ll be home soon.
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Judith’s Horror Outline – Version 1 – Nov. 9, 2022 – Homework
What I learned doing this assignment is creating the horror emotions before writing should aid in developing the scenes.
ACT 1 – NOTE: OPENING SCENE
1. INT. ASYLUM – DAY
ESSENCE: MARY THE MANIAC escapes from the asylum she has been residing in. She kills three people during her escape back into society.
Horror Situation 1: The insane inmate escapes from the asylum.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them)
SURPRISE TO PANIC – beginning and scene ending
SURPRISE – An ATTENDANT starts to open Mary the Maniac’s door and it slides open.
FEAR – The Attendant reaches in and turns on the light and sees that Mary’s bed is empty. She pulls her night stick and is startled by ATTENDANT 2.
RELEASE – She’s relieved when she sees she has help. He will go in and check the room. He does and Mary is gone.
FEAR – Attendant 1 races down the hallway and pulls the alarm button. It wakes up the whole asylum and the inmates panic. Scream and holler and bang on their doors to be let out. The WARDEN arrives and the Attendants tell him what the problem is. They each pick a way to search and proceed.
SCARES – Attendant one moves down one corridor leading to the outside door and is attacked by Mary with a baseball bat. She is beaten to a pulp. The second Attendant sees Mary and attacks. She fights back.
RELEASES – Attendant 2 manages to drive Mary back and she runs away. He chases after her.
SCARES – the Warden comes with his gun around the corner and Mary hits him with the baseball bat, knocking the gun from his hand. He is knocked to the floor. He sees Attendant 2 beaten on the ground.
RELEASE – Mary stares at him for a second, laughs, and runs out the asylum doors
Monster reveals – Mary is ruthless and the asylum has security issues allowing inmates to escape.
2. INT. SHRINK’S OFFICE – DAY
ESSSENCE: JANE’S SHRINK assures her that she is ready to conquer her sedetapobia, her fear of silence. This trip to the woods with her fiancé will convince her that she is well.
3. INT. SHRINK’S OFFICE – LOBBY – DAY
ESSENCE: Jane and the Shrink leave her office and go into the lobby where Jane’s fiancé, JAKE waits. Jane introduces him to the Shrink. She thanks him for helping her show Jane that she is ready to face the world and not fear silence.
4. INT. JANE’S APARTMENT – DAY
Jane packs her suitcase. Her dear FRIEND helps her. Soft music plays in the background. They are almost finished. Friend closes the suitcase and stares at Jane.
Jane says, “what?” Her friend replies, “I don’t think you should go. I don’t trust the Shrink.”
“Are you here to help me or hurt me?” To help of course. You’re my best friend. I’ve always watched your back.
Yes, ever since kindergarten. I’ll be okay. I feel strong. Jake will be there. I can call you anytime I need to talk.
5. INT. SHRINK’S OFFICE – DAY
ESSENCE: The Shrink sits behind her desk. A plastic sheet on her desk with white powder spread over it. The shrink takes a straw, collects some of the powder and sucks it up her nose. She sits back in the glory of her habit. “Won’t have to deal with that bitch for three weeks.”
Horror Situation 2: Shrink is a drug addict.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) SURPRISE TO DREAD
SURPRISE: the audience is surprised that the Shrink is a drug attack and she is happy that Jane will be out of her hair for a while.
DREAD – the audience is concerned for Jane that she is being guided by an unstable person.
Monster reveals – the Shrink is a drug addict.
6. INT. JAKE’S CAR – DAY
ESSENCE: Jane and Jake ride along enjoying the scenery and discussing their plans for the trip. Soft music plays on the radio. Jane reaches over and turns off the song. Jake looks at her, and she holds her finger up to her mouth. Silence. A big smile graces Jane’s face.
7. EXT. WOODS – DAY
ESSENCE: Jane is getting apprehensive about staying in the woods.
Horror Situation 3 – the woods give a dark and scary feeling as one drives deeper into them.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) APPREHENSION – DREAD
APPREHENSION – Jane is unhappy that the woods are so dark during the day. Jake assures her all is okay, and the cabin area is light.
SCARES – a branch falls from a tree and almost hits the car causing Jake to swerve the car.
RELEASE – all is well the car is on the road and they are safe; it did not hit them.
FEAR – Jane is fearful the rest of the drive.
Releases – The area around the cabin is light and gay and the lake is beautiful. Jane is relieved. Happy to be there. Shows joy at the beautiful cabin and area.
Monster reveals – just the darkness during the drive.
8. EXT. CABIN – DAY
ESSENCE: Arriving at the cabin Jane looks a little more relieved. She smiles at Jake.
INT. CABIN – DAY
ESSENCE: Essence of the scene: the caretaker got the cabin ready for Jane and Jake and there are bad people around here and it may not be so safe.
The CARETAKER waves and smiles as the couple exit their car. I just got here. She unlocks the cabin.
INCITING INCIDENT – arrive at the cabin and it is a mess.
Horror Situation 4: the cabin has been broken into and it’s a mess
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) SHOCK TO SUSPENSE
SHOCK – the cabin is a mess and the food in the refrigerator is spoiled.
ANXIETY – Jane wants to go home and forget about the cabin in the woods vacation. The Caretaker assures her she will clean all up and Jake comforts her and talks her into giving this vacation a try.
SCARES – Jane agrees to give it a try and is scared by a spider that drops from the ceiling.
RELEASES – Jake brushes the spider off and crushes it into the floor. The Caretaker assures her she will clean up the bugs too before they get back from the store.
Monster reveals – Someone is up to something in the cabin and wants to scare of hurt the inhabitants.
9. EXT. CABIN – DAY
ESSENCE: When they leave the cabin, they see a man fishing by their dock. Jake goes up to him and asks what he is doing there. He seems not bothered by Jake’s insistence that he leave. He promises he will.
10. INT. COUNTRY STORE – DAY
ESSENCE: Jake and Jane shop for supplies. As Jane passes a newsstand, she doesn’t notice a newspaper article about a psychiatrist under investigation for using unorthodox practices.
11. EXT. WOODS/EXT. WOODS – OUTSIDE THE CABIN – LATER
PLOT POINT 1 – they arrive back at the cabin and find the fisherman dead and they barely escape with their lives chases by a wild boar.
ESSENCE: Jake and Jane arrive back at the cabin only to find the fisherman dead and a boar is out to kill them.
Horror Situation 5 – The fisherman is dead, and a wild boar is after Jane and Jake.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) Anxiety to Panic
Fear – as jake and Jane get closer to the fisherman, Jake calls out and there is no response.
Surprise – the fisherman’s fishing pole slips from his hand and slides into the lake. The fisherman doesn’t react.
Dread – jake and Jane are more and more cautious as they approach the fisherman.
Scare – they see that the fisherman’s face has been bitten off.
Release – Jake calls the police. The phone rings. Both are relieved.
Panic – the phone goes dead, and Jake can’t get it dialing again. Suddenly the boar comes blazing out of the woods and Jane and Jake race toward the cabin.
Monster reveal – there are harmful animals in these woods.
EXT. WOODS – DAY
ESSENCE: Jake and Jane run for their lives through the woods and come upon a cleaning. The boar is nowhere in sight.
EXT. CLEARNING – DAY
ESSENCE: they have outrun the boar but now are surrounded by many others.
HORROR SITUATION 6: Boars threaten Jake and Jane.
12. EXT WOODS – OUTSIDE THE CABIN – LATER
Jake and Jane make it back to the cabin. Nothing in site. The fisherman from the dock not gone but in a different position. Scary. They enter. A soft rustle in the trees.
Horror Situation 7 – The fisherman is gone, and it foretells the death in the cabin. Something besides the boar is here.
Horror Situation 1: The insane inmate escapes from the asylum.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) Suspense to Hysteria
Fear – Jane and Jake cuddle and hold one another as the boars circle them coming closer and closer.
SUSPENSE – the boars don’t do anything but move around them making weird noises.
Shock – 1 boar charges and bumps into Jake knocking him down, then retreats.
Dread – the boars suddenly become quiet and stop moving. All is eerily quiet.
Panic – Jane can’t contain herself.
Scares – suddenly a deafening sound from out of the woods and the boars get ready to charge and then stop.
RELEASE – they turn around and leave.
Hysteria – Jane is freaked out believing they will return and refuses to go back to the cabin. Jake manages to calm her down and they race home.
Monster reveals – something besides the boar is here and seems to be controlling them.
13. INT. CABIN – DAY
Jake and Jane are back at the cabin, safe and a police car is there.
Essence: all looks well but isn’t.
Horror Situation 8: Relief to dread
Relief: they approach the policeman in the car.
Shock: he is dead, and they see that his radio is smashed.
Relief: they escape into the cabin, and all is well. They feel safe.
MIDPOINT – escape from the boars to the cabin and find the caretaker dead.
14. INT. CABIN – BEDROOM – NIGHT
ESSENCE: The Caretaker has been killed, and they cannot call out for help.
Horror Situation 9 – Someone is out to get them, and they can’t get help.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) fear to horror
Fear – Jane somehow acts like she is okay. She uses a device she used as a child to make herself feel safe. She still bites her lip. Jake decides to load the bodies in the cop car.
Suspense – they are in the police car, but it won’t start.
Scare – a boar comes out of nowhere and charges the car and disappears.
Anxiety – they decide to drive for help, but their car won’t start.
Panic – they both look at one another and race toward the cabin, and lock themselves in.
Release – they made it and are safe. Jane turns on all the sound she can find.
Dread – they keep looking outside for danger.
Suddenly, a boar is ramming the front door, stops and we hear a terrifying sound and when they look outside a masked person is killing the door.
Panic – the couple back away from the window and find things to board up the doors and windows.
Release – they finish boarding, the masked figure is gone. They make some tea. Try to figure out what to do- Find weapons.
Dread – wait
Monster reveal – the lights go out and they are in the dark and all is quiet. Jane repeats her safe talk about being in silence.
15. INT. CABIN – NIGHT
ESSENCE: There is something out there besides the boar who is killing and is out to kill them. They survive the night.
Horror Situation 10: there is someone out there who is a merciless killer and might be out to get them.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) dread to hysteria
Fear – Jake will go outside and turn on the lights.
Dread – Jane doesn’t want him to go. She begs him to stay, but he says they need the lights and they monster is gone. He takes protection with him.
Suspense – Jake leaves. Jane waits with a weapon in heand.
Scare – a glass breaks in the kitchen. Jane checks it out and finds a cat in there.
Relief – she pets it and it purrs. Where did you come from?
Shock – Knock at the door, it is Jake, he enters but with him is the masked figure.
Panic – Jane tries to warn Jake. But he just goes over to the figure and removes her mask. It is the shrink.
Hysteria – she and Jake kiss. Jane reacts uncontrollably – she cries, – stops – laughs – points at them and flees upstairs.
Release – she locks herself in the bedroom and searches for a weapon.
PLOT POINT 2 – JAKE AND SHRINK are in this together to drive Jane insane and have her committed.
19. INT. CABIN – BEDROOM – NIGHT
In total freak out mode, Jane scrams, flees into the bedroom. Locks the door. Silence. She hears nothing. She searches the room for a weapon. Stops suddenly. Finds as photo of a little girl and boy. She stares at it. Freddie. Realizes it is her brother.
Horror Situation 11: Jane has been duped by her big brother who she thought she had accidently killed as a kid. FBs: of the horrid fight between Jane and Jake as kids. She faces up to taking care of herself.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) shock to release
Fear – Jane hides in the bedroom, searching for a weapon and finds her brother ‘s child photo with her and their mom.
Anguish – Jane has a FB of the fight between her brother and her, where she thought she killed him and was taken to a home for wayward girls.
Dread – Jake bangs on the door and tells her it’s her turn to die.
Release – Jane gets a hold of herself, finds a weapon and escapes out the window before Jake breaks down the door.
21. EXT. WOODS – NIGHT
ESSENCE: Jane escapes in the woods for a while and Jake and Shrink catch up to her.
CLIMAX – JAKE KILLS SHRINK AND JANE IS SO TERRIFIED SHE BECOMES TOTALLY INSANE.
Horror Situation 12: Jane goes mad as Jake terrorizes her.
Horror Emotions: (followed by the action that causes them) Fear – Horror
Fear – she runs like a mania through the woods, stumbling almost, then falling.
Suspense – She tries to get up.
Scare – She hears strange noise approaching her.
Release – It’s a rabbit.
Suspense – She gets up and listens. Feels safe, but
Scare – out of nowhere Jake and Shrink appear and hit at her.
Dread – They beat her down, her trying to protect herself, when she stops, and stares like in a trance.
Suspense – the shrink just stares at her. She laughs and says, “we got her.” Jake tries to speak to her, but Jane is lost, gone.
Shock – Jake looks at the Shrink and shoots her. She falls to the ground a puzzled look on her face.
Horror – Jake lets her lie there while he pulls Jane back through the woods.
INT. MASON HOME FOR THE INSANE – DAY
ESSENCE – Jake talks with a doctor. He tells him that Jane has not responded to the medications they gave her. She hears nothing. He tells Jake he can visit, take her for a walk, but don’t expect anything in return. Jake thanks him and tells him whatever I can do for my little sister.
He goes to Jane. She sits in front of the window in a wheelchair. A blank look on her face.
RESOLUTION – Jane kills Jake and escapes the asylum.
22. EXT. MASON HOME FOR THE INSANE – DAY
Jake wheels Jane down a path past other visitors toward an isolated area. He parks the chair. Sits on the bench next to it. Well, Jane, no more sounds for you. SILENCE is the reward for you hurting me when we were kids, making mom think I was dead and her killing herself in grief. So good to have found you, little sister. Jane’s still head slowly turns toward Jake, she rises from her chair, a harrowing scream, a knife and Jake is dead, stabbed.
The attendants come running. Find Jake dead and Jane disappeared.
Essence of the scene: The fake dutiful brother takes Jane for a walk.
Horror Situation 13: Jane has a surprise for Jake.
Horror Emotions (followed by the action that causes them) Dread – Shock
Dread – Jake wheels Jane into the woods. He parks the wheelchair by a bench at the end of the walkway away from everyone.
Scares – Jake menaces Jane. Telling her what a bad sister she is and he’s glad that she is deaf and stuck in a mental world.
Anxiety – Jake sits satisfied he’s succeeding in paying his sister back for the imagined horror she perpetrated on him.
Surprise – he sits there smiling, when Jane turns toward him, gets up from her chair, bashes in his head with a thick stick, and escapes into the woods.
Releases – Jane is gone, and the attendants freak out.
Monster reveals – Is Jane the monster or did she just get revenge for being punished for something she did not do?
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Lisandro Boccacci’s Horror outline version 1
What I learned doing this assignment is how to keep track of the horror situations, and emotions.
LIVE CAM – HORROR SITUATION TRACK
ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR
1. INT – COURTHOUSE / COURTROOM – DAY
The judge is reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.
Horror Situation: cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground.
HORROR EMOTIONS
SURPRISE: the ex cop notices a cop is in distress.
APPREHENSION: Ex cop notices the shot cop not doing well. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground but he knows the suspect is still on the loose and dangerous.
SHOCK . The video continues to show the officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!” Starting to realize he shot his own partner.
Horror Situation: Starting to realize he shot his own partner.
FEAR: The officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired, and the officer has no clue what is happening.
SHOCK: More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot.
Horror Situation: …they notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit,
SURPRISE: They have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death.
Horror situation: the officer is beating suspect to death.
The officer is beating the suspect to death and another officer has to step in to stop him. Wrong place at the wrong time. The main officer has mistakenly shot at his partner.
After the camera footage ends, the focus is on the ex-cop sitting in the stand. He is the body cam officer in the courtroom opening scene and sitting the court room having to answer some hard questions. role: .Leader: intro: He gets called up on the stand as a witness.
2. EXT – COURTHOUSE – DAY
role: Moral One: Introduced: he is the one that picks the group up from the courthouse.
3. INT – BAR – DAY
Connect with the characters – The 3 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak. role: love interest/ lovers character intro: she meets the leader at the bar in the opening scene.
4. INT – PRISON – DAY
the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. he is quick to get back on his feet and take control of the situation, uses weapons if he needs to.
Monster Reveal: the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. (He has a bad temper, and its revealed he is strong, and can fight multiple men at once.)
5. INT – HOSPITAL – DAY
During his last year he gets his face cut up really bad and is sent to the hospital with his life clinging. After some time, he takes off his bandages to reveal his hideous scared face and left with a face without a nose. This one of the officers who was fired, sued, and sent to prison for three years. That changed him as a man. It has also left him disfigured. In prison his face was slashed up, and his nose was cut off. He wants his revenge.
6. EXT – PRISON – DAY
Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. it’s been three years.
7. INT – HOTEL – DAY
He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control.
Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control.
he reacts to stress: by finding strength within and forcing his way. and starts to laugh at his horrific face. he enjoys it scaring people with his face.
8. EXT – HOUSE OF WAFFLES– NIGHT
The brother, Is the carrier character. character intro: he walks in with double fisting beer when the group is out celebrating. he is given a tip about where dirty cops work, he talks to his friend, just become a police officer, character bit of a rooky.
9. INT – LEADER’S HOME – NIGHT
The leader calls his driver friend and talks to him about the tip. while they are talking the driver sends the leader a link to a new article about the victim has gone missing, suspected dead. The driver wants to lay low and warns them against doing anything, but the leader convinces the driver to go through with one last video tonight. The leader tells everyone to get ready, that the driver was going to pick everyone up and get all together.
10. INT – DRIVER’S CAR – NIGHT
He stops by the younger brother’s house, picks him up, he drives to the Leader’s place and pick him up, and the older sister. They drive to the location. They talk about not doing it and going back, Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.
11. EXT – PARKING LOT – NIGHT
Before they can start streaming live, they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.
Horror situation: the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them.
Rescuer intro: he is part of the squad that surrounds the victims’ cars. the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them. They pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing. The officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.
Horror situation: the officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.
They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, there is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew. The officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.
Horror situation: the officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.
They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground. one of the officers grabs and pulls back on the window, smashing it and a fight the leader gets hand cuffed to the door. the complainer’s reaction to horror: he is filled with fear.
The Police yell at them, and mess with them for a while. the complainer doesn’t like what’s happening. after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out…
Monster Reveal: The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car.
Horror situation: the group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up…
HORROR EMOTIONS
APPREHENSION: ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side, the group in the car can sense real danger coming.
SHOCK: throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car.
FEAR: The group knows something is up…
SURPIRSE :when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up. The driver starts their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck
FEAR: the dog is let loose, viciously barking at them through the car windows.
APPREHENSION: the other cops tell the complainer that he was used to set this whole thing up, they knew about his friendship with the younger brother, and he is in
ACT 2
12. EXT – FORREST – NIGHT
horror situation: they can’t escape and are now being dragged
The ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet,
horror situation: the place they are dragged to, has no internet, no Wi-Fi, no cell service and all of their live feed gets cut.
but the ex-cop has his own special camera with a special long range wireless antenna, and K-9 dog. They realize that none of their phones or computers are connected, their live streaming has ended. They can’t escape and are now being dragged by a tow truck. Driver’s horror reaction: they react by getting more focused on the situation, going from jokey to serious. driver’s once stopped. The driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun from the glovebox. The driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.
horror situation: the driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.
The driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog. .
horror situation: the driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.
HORROR EMOTIONS
SUSPENSE: the complainer under stress: he tends to coward a bit and his, he runs or hides. FEAR: The driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.
DREAD: The group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car.
SUSPENSE: One of the officers (The complainer) guarding the perimeter gets shot by accident. he makes his way over to the car. falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…
horror situation: one of the officers guarding the perimeter falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…
SHOCK: shot by the driver…
APPREHENSION: that officer drops his gun and the older sister sees that.
Monster Reveal: He has complete command of the dog… uses it to keep the victims from running and uses it for defense. If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running.
If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running. They stay in the car; they discuss running and getting to an area with internet and cellphone access.
MIDPOINT – He allows the rooky to die… and this doesn’t sit right with the other cops. The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using his baton stick to break and destroy their car.
Monster Reveal: He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. Which made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller.. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it.
horror situation: the glass starts getting smashed .
HORROR EMOTIONS
He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. Which now this situation made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it. they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass that flying in the air, every time the ex-cop swings his baton.
ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR
horror situation: the younger brother gets pulled out of the car…
HORROR EMOTIONS
The carrier character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop,
another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape… the younger brother gets completely pulled out of the car…they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness… with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.
horror situation: with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.
They argue about what to do…the sister grabs the gun that was left behind by the shot officer, runs after her brother…. the driver makes a run for it… the younger brother gets tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.
horror situation: the younger brother get tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.
The older sister finds him and fires at the ex-cop and at the dog, they make a run for it into the darkness around them. She manages to cut the rope down. and they make a run for it. The ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic and sets his K9 loose again. He is in control even if the victims are out running about. The driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.
horror situation: the driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.
Monster Reveal: he is in control even if the victims are out running about.
He has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again. The younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.
Horror situation: the younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.
The older sister runs back to the car for the spray. The ex-officer attacks them both electric shocker gun… He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets somewhat tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…The sister grazes the ex-cops face, breaking the mask. they run for it with the asthma spray. They can’t get to the younger brother.
horror situation: the ex-office attacks with taser gun
Monster Reveal: He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets some what tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…
The rescuer, switches sides and begins to help the driver escape, end up shooting the dog dead The rescuer ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, the no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet area and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that. the sister is in great the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.
horror situation: the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.
dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up. The ex-cop takes off the mask… still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them.
Monster Reveal: takes off the mask.. still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them.
horror situation: the younger brother chokes to death.
dies from an asthma attack that was induced form being hung for a minute. the leader tries to get to the younger brother but has to break the side mirror in order to come free. the leader is Fighting back: he uses a lug nut wrench that’s in the trunk of the car, he uses that to physically fight the ex-cop.
horror situation: the leader has a face off with the ex cop
Back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops.
horror situation: deadly shootout between cops, bullets dispersing everywhere.
the rest hiding in the forest from the bullets. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout but chases down the girlfriend/sister, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, face to face, both have knives…
horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight.
Monster Revealed: face to face, both have knives… its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level.
HORROR EMOTIONS
PANIC: its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level.
HORROR: but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so…fight to the death,
HYSTERIA the leader gets cut up,
HORROR: but manages to stab the ex-cop in the back…rendering him useless with his life hanging by a string.
<font face=”inherit”>HYSTERIA: they run for their lives but the sister </font>doesn’t<font face=”inherit”> want to believe that her brother is dead.</font>
RELEASE: they reach the good officers and are escorted out of the area and into an ambulance, her insight: having someone there to help you isn’t a weakness and if she has to rely on herself, she flexible enough to get by. the driver although his skin is torn to shreds, he is fighting for his life in ambulance, and the brother is found dead. the driver’s motto: Fight for your right. the leader’s ability to stay calm and think is what got him out alive. The ex-cop manages to walk to his trailer…He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website. where he was running a live feed from multiple cameras to a website that is hitting 5 thousand views.
Monster Reveal: He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website.
we see an audience of billionaires looking at their screens. all of their live feeds stop as the ex-cop pushes end live feed. he tells the driver to go. The trailer pulls out of an old barn… and drives off on a dirty road. They leave just in time before the good cops swarm the area.
13. INT – AIRPORT – NIGHT
the ex-<font color=”#4d5c6d” face=”SF UI Text, sans-serif”>cop is using his laptop checking his millions in his bank account and watches the news… the survivors in the hospital alive. this makes the ex-cop furious. causes a scene and airport security reaches him before he can leave.</font>
<font color=”#4d5c6d” face=”SF UI Text, sans-serif”>end of movie. </font>
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