Bridge
Synopsis/Details:
Bridge is a sci-fi horror short which explores grief, the ethics of clairvoyance and a human need to believe in life after death.
Chris and Ellie are the best of mates who love to hustle at board games. But when Ellie dies in a car crash, Chris is plunged into a depression that not even their son Josh (12) can help him escape.
With his mind poisoned by alcohol and self-pity, cynical Chris drunkenly buys the latest gadget craze sweeping the world - a Bridge unit.
Created by AfterLife Technologies, the Bridge connects the land of the living, with the land of the dead. Chris doesn't believe in the technology, thinking it's an AI-driven imposter.
When Josh unwittingly plugs it in, starts talking to Ellie and she reveals impossible details of their life together - Chris becomes hooked.
But every technology can be hacked. And when the hacker is a malevolent force, there's not a firewall on Earth that can protect you.
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The Writer: Mike Underwood
I have a passion for dark, twisting and twisted TV and film which gets the heart racing, the mind questioning and the soul begging for mercy! A little bit about me - armed with a journalism degree, I have been writing professionally since 1999 after becoming a reporter and spending 11 years neck-deep in covering crime and politics in England, Scotland and the United States. I spent two hair-raising years as a night shift city reporter on the Boston Herald in Massachusetts Since 2010, I have worked in the less treacherous world of PR & Communications, winning national awards for creative campaigns, media relations and team leadership for a range of public and private sector organisations... Go to bio
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