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DustinBowcot
Posted: April 21st, 2015, 2:03am Report to Moderator
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Here's my pitch for Momma's Boy:


I hope you don't mind me sending you this query. I've written a screenplay you may be interested in reading, entitled, Momma's Boy.

Logline:  A psychosis-suffering housewife, due an inheritance worthy of murder, believes she has resurrected her recently deceased son through the power of prayer and goes on a murderous spree to satiate his unusual dietary requirements.

Brief Synopsis: Angela is being drugged and slowly driven insane by her husband as he wants to lay claim to the inheritance she is due once her mother dies. He is also having an affair with her mental health worker who is in on the plot. Due to being drugged out of her mind, both on prescription drugs and the ones secretly fed to her by her husband, Angela loses track of her son, Elijah, who drowns in a park pond. She manages to get him home, but he is dead. Having read of resurrection in the bible and it not being only isolated to Jesus, she gives prayer a shot. She manages to keep the 'accident' a secret from her husband. Her son comes back to life, he just can't move from the bed and he needs her to get him food, a special type of food, he can only eat brain. She starts out getting small animals before unwittingly moving onto her enemies.

Notes: This is a freaky story, but one of those stories that will leave the viewer satisfied, which is hard to accomplish with a horror these days. A low budget horror, minimum and easily obtainable locations (2 houses and a hotel room). Minimum special effects (only make-up needed, maybe some silicone). Minimum actors.
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See if you can tweak any of these:

A medical student and a soap-star actress combine forces and find themselves on the run in an effort to thwart a major terrorist plot.

A geeky med student and an Aussie soap-starlet find themselves the prime targets of an international terrorist organization and must combine forces to avert the ring's latest deadly plot.

A geeky med student and an Aussie soap-starlet find themselves the prime targets of an international terrorist organization and must join forces to foil the group's latest plot.

The spirit of a comatose young man reaches out to an Australian soap-starlet and they join forces in an effort to thwart the latest plot of an international terrorist organisation.

Lying comatose in a hospital bed the spirit of a young man reaches out to an Aussie soap actress in an effort to thwart a terrorist organisation's latest plot.


Add to this a brief synopsis in the same vein as Dustin has outlined to fill in a few more of the gaps, & state genre etc.



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Hi LC,
thanks for the input! Lets see, how does this sound?

Disconnected from his body, a comatose young man is forced to rely on the help of his favourite Aussie actress to get back to his body and avoid the clutches of a worldwide terrorist conspiracy.

@Dustin

I like that logline, especially the part of the unusual dietary requirements. Makes me curious to find out what that is supposed to be. The synopsis however would probably turn me off from reading on, that sounds a little too strange for me, but that's because I'm not a fan of such weirdo/zombie horror flicks. I like horror movies, but more the subtle ones which keep the events within a certain 'thinkable' grade of realism.

About a synopsis for Mindwalker, how about this:

Nerdy medical student Andrew Kinderman witnesses the murder of his professor and gets shot by the killers as well. He ends up in coma but his mind separates from his body and materializes in the villa of his favourite tv star, australian actress Anna Chastings, who is the only person who can see him. She is not amused about the unwanted visitor and sends him away, but Andrew learns from a ghost girl that he is anchored to her and can't get away from her until he returns to his body. By proving Anna he is not a stress-induced hallucination, he finally convinces her to follow him home to New York and help him to find his body. Checking through the hospitals, Anna attracts the attention of the FBI who keeps Andrew under witness protection. She can't explain how she is connected to Andrew, but she points them to a second witness, Andrew's fellow student. It turns out, the FBI agent in charge is working for a shady organization which plotted the death of Andrew's professor and now wants to get rid of Anna as well.


I just wrote that out of nowhere, so probably the english is not perfect. That's a synopsis for the pilot only, not for the whole series.



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The script is now posted here in the series section, would be glad to hear your thoughts about it.


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