Siblings return to the room that haunted their childhood imaginations.
Type:
Short
Status:
Sold
Page Count:
5pp
Genre:
Horror
Budget:
Shoestring
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details
Doug and Hanna return to the room that used to frighten them as children. It has a bunk bed and several knick knacks knacks that used to belong to their Aunt Edith. Among the items are painted stones that resemble agonized faces. The siblings stayed in this room on annual visits to their aunt. Now they have inherited the old place. Their return to the old room will not be a pleasant experience. This can be filmed cheaply. One room and two actors in their 20s.

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Submitted: 2021-Feb-22
Last Updated: 2024-Jun-12
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The Writer: Rob Herzog

My chief talent isn’t writing, it’s being afraid. As a kid, I freaked out about spontaneous human combustion, killer bees, and the prospect of a bathtub shark attack. And the 3,600 miles between me and the Loch Ness Monster wasn’t nearly enough. All of this youthful anxiety runs wild in my screenplays. Blame the neighborhood weirdo kid for setting me on this path. When I was six, he predicted that our neighborhood would be attacked by window ghouls. These ghouls supposedly would claw into our rooms and devour us all. Only those blessed with large dogs would survive, he said, because window ghouls hated them. Two nights later, I imagined the ghouls at my window, clawing the screen. At this… Go to bio
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