Lesson 2

[Donna Donna Hoke Hoke]

• How does the monster terrorize?
  by killing people close to the MC’s life
• How does the monster pursue?
  by continuing to do so
• How does the monster isolate?
  by threatening her family if she tells anyone
• What is the terrible thing they do?
  Kills people close the MC
• How does the monster cause death?
  In any number of gruesome ways
• What makes this inescapable?
  The threat to her immediate family

[Tasha Espinoza]

Tasha’s Terrifying Monster

What I learned doing this assignment is that mystery and mythology are not the same thing.

1. Tell us what or who your monster is.

My monster is a vengeful spirit.

2. Give us a few sentences for each of the following for your monster:

• Their Terror: It stalks its prey, moves objects, makes spots cold, shows up in mirrors, photos, hallways, eventually it manipulates a serial killer to carry out the terror and murder of its prey

• Their Mystery: Eventually, the vengeful spirit uses a serial killer to carry out their vengeance, so the group has to find and stop the serial killer

• Their Fear Provoking Appearance: Dead girl phantom – the state the serial killer left her in

• Their Rules: no real supernatural powers other than appearance, some object movement, cold spots, typical ghost stuff but she knows the identity of a serial killer and can logically think – also can’t/ isn’t allowed to cross over until she avenges herself

• Their Mythology: The vengeful spirit was a girl that the group had a chance to rescue from certain death at the hands of a serial killer but chose not to because she could give them anything they wanted

[Tom Carroll]

I learned to work through a good thought process to craft a monster that will serve the needs of the script. In this sense I crafted my monster to stay away from the front, like a good general stays behind the front lines, to send out minions to execute his orders. Vorago stays in the shadows until he must take control and disclose himself at the end of the sreeenplay.

VORAGO – THE MONSTER

Their Terror: Vorago, The Wraith, wields the power of psychological manipulation with terrifying efficiency, plunging its victims into a nightmarish labyrinth of their own making. It exploits their deepest fears and insecurities, turning their minds against them as they are forced to confront the demons of their past and the horrors that lurk within, their sanity hanging by a thread as they teeter on the edge of oblivion.

Their Mystery: Vorago’s origins are veiled in the mists of time, obscured by the shadow of an empire long since fallen into ruin. Born from the union of mortal and infernal bloodlines, he was cast adrift upon the currents of history, a cursed wanderer condemned to roam the earth for all eternity, his true purpose lost to the annals of time.

His Fear-Provoking Appearance: At first, Vorago remains in his coffin, unseen to the world, but capable of spawning monsters from within the coffin and sending them out to do his work. When the priest arrives, he busts out of the coffin and takes on the form of a sinister puppeteer, its body adorned with strings and such. Its face is hidden beneath a porcelain mask, its expression frozen in a rictus grin that belies the horrors that lurk beneath. Called out by the priest, he reverts to his true form: a monstrous hybrid creature, its body is covered in fur and scales, its eyes gleaming with a predatory intelligence as it moves with a sinuous grace that belies its monstrous nature.

Their Rules: Vorago preys on fractured psyches, manipulating insecurities and traumas to dominate minds, amplifying fears until victims are on the verge of madness, powerless against its influence. He can do this until he attempts to possess someone who has seen all of this before and who can take it and deal it back in equal amounts – that being the priest.

Their Mythology: In the ancient myths of Egypt, Vorago is recounted as the twisted spawn of Set, the god of chaos, and a mortal priestess who dared to challenge his dominion. Banished from the halls of the gods and cursed to wander the sands of the desert, he roams the land as a restless spirit, his existence a testament to the folly of mortal ambition and the capriciousness of divine fate.