Bloody Mary

Mikey and Billy Caruso, 13, twin brothers who could not be more opposite, as Mikey prefers acting in plays and gets straight A’s, while Billy prefers football and gets terrible grades, agree to fulfill a dare and perform the Bloody Mary ritual in the woman’s bathroom with two older female actors. While preparing to do the ritual, the girls overheat, and literally sweat before our eyes, complaining of the horrible stench, and run out of the bathroom. Mikey wants to stay and do the ritual because he feels it will get him friends, as he doesn’t have any. Billy agrees to stay and do it and be his friend. The brothers execute the ritual, when a woman with long black hair, dressed in a red gown with a black rosary and gold cross around her neck, BUT WITH NO FACE, stands before them. The brothers are terrified, when Bloody Mary slashes them across the face with bouquets of red roses, cutting their faces. She asks Mikey and Billy for help, before the boys exit the bathroom, and sprint out of the school yelling at the top of their lungs. When Mikey and Billy get home that night, they realize their personal problems are minimal compared to the issues mom and dad are having. TOMMY CARUSO, 40’s, a fireman. He’s insecure, professionally and financially. He’s a good looking man but feels his wife doesn’t look at him twice anymore, giving him a roaming eye. He longs for a promotion to fire chief, but a drinking problem hinders. GRACE CARUSO, 30’s, a Puerto Rican boss with personality, flair, and confidence, is also up for a big promotion, to vice president of the board of education. This married couple couldn’t be more different, as Tommy drives a Ford pickup truck, and Grace drives a red BMW X5. Grace longs for financial freedom, power, and the finer things, like a new house, and status. She makes more money than Tommy and she lets him know it. She sacrificed her family bond for the pursuit of success. Bloody Mary, through creating a violent thunderstorm during the usual sunny day, forces the family to stay home, and tortments their individual weaknesses. Bloody Mary wants Tommy for her husband, and tempts him with her mistresses to create more friction between he and Grace, but then gets threatened when Tommy doesn’t want her, maybe because she’s faceless. Tommy wants the mistresses, so Bloody Mary burns them alive before Tommy’s eyes, and chokes him until he blacks out, leaving her handprints around his throat. Bloody Mary wants Grace’s physical body and face, and her unborn child. Grace is an easy target, as she feels under-appreciated, and is power-driven, money-hungry or some could say, ambitious. She feels Tommy is a wonderful father, but is an unloving, nonpresant, financially challenged husband. Tommy even wonders if the baby’s his, claiming you have to have sex to make a baby. Hurting each other is a common thread between Grace and Tommy. Bloody Mary possesses the unborn son, and he whispers dark thoughts in Grace’s head about her kids and husband, causing a further rift. It’s not hard for Bloody Mary to take over Grace’s polluted soul and do her bidding. Bloody Mary needs an heir to the throne, so she comes after Mikey and Billy, with their mother’s face, confusing them and pinning the brothers against each other to see who will take the seat next to her. Bloody Mary ultimately has her way, as she has taken over Grace’s body and unborn child. She even takes possession of Mikey and Billy as heirs to her seat, but lets Tommy live and have another chance at life, but without his family. Tommy refuses to leave the house, and instead, he rummages through Mikey’s room and finds the Bloody Mary chant on a piece of paper. He sets up a mirror in the living room and does the ritual, and it works. He’s back in her world. Once back in Bloody Mary’s world, Tommy tries to convince Grace-Bloody-Mary, to let him be her husband in the dark world, and to free our sons as they should be innocent from our mistakes. Bloody Mary agrees to Tommy being her husband, but first he must burn and destroy Mikey and Billy. Tommy refuses and pays with his life. It’s the powerful, brotherly bond, and ironically the advice from their parents, that protects Mikey and Billy, and gets them out of the dark world, alone! Bloody Mary has Grace’s body and soul, and will continue her rein of terror, while Mikey and Billy must navigate a world without their parents.