Bone Season
do you
know what fear is ?
Logline: Two unsuspecting
teenaged girls become entangled
in the bizarre and
supernatural realm of evil spirits from a world beyond.
Synopsis:
In a small rustic New
Jersey town, the townsfolk will tell strange vague old stories. There are
stories of the town and what they don't normally tell "strangers" in casual
conversation. If you listen, the old timers will tell you the town of Pine Lake
is haunted, haunted with otherworldly things.
Kee-shay-la-muh’-Ka-ong,
the Creator, created this land and made various creatures, alive and dead.
He threw cedar branches down on the water and they co-exist there. That is what
they say unofficially. These stories are dismissed as old “Piney” tales.
The official town records
and the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton tell of witchcraft and trials of the
1700's and persecutions deep in the Pine Woods. What they don’t record is that
the Lenape Indians buried their dead in the middle of town, sacred land. Pine
Lake is a "power place" and strange things happen there, mysterious things.
People actually die of fright!
In 1972 widower Clayton
Pyncheon lived there in a cottage with his daughters, Jenny and Abbie. To this
day both Abbie and Jenny refuse to talk about that time. As teenagers they
listened to the stories and read books on spells and potions. What they didn’t
know was that you had to be prepared when you summon horrific entities from the
Spirit World. The results could be deadly.
They had no idea of their
own power or the danger that was present.
There was something else,
something deeper, Abbie and Jenny couldn’t escape an old family secret. They
never realized they were the direct descendants of a man guilty of despicable
crimes, sentencing people to death, a witch hunter. He was also a man cursed by
a powerful warlock. With his dying breath the warlock cursed all Pyncheon
descendants. Without this knowledge the fearless girls summon and materialize
the monstrous forces that were feared by more primitive men and which ultimately
proved fatal.
This piece has been
thoroughly researched and is based on actual or perceived events. I am a serious
fan of horror movies that go beyond the gore, movies like The Omen, The Fly and
The Shining. This movie is based in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey
because I grew up there and did hear stories.
Availability: Full Rights
Available 113 pages.
Copyright © 2007 Gina
Quartermaine. All Rights Reserved.
Contact Gina
Quartermaine
Email:
My scripts have placed at The Austin Film Festival, American
Screenwriter's Association/Writer's Digest Screenplay Competition and Jury of
Peers. I have studied playwriting at Oxford University (England), and
am
also an internationally
published poet and playwright. My plays have been performed at La Mama Theatre
in NYC and Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. My short film entitled "At
Last" was produced in Canada in 2006.
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