Cloudhouse by JD Savage | Script Revolution

Cloudhouse

An undocumented teenage immigrant desperately tries to break out of a remote cannabis grow-house where he's been brutally enslaved. But enemies even deadlier than his captors lurk outside, trying to break *in*...

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Metropolitan gangsterism meets rural isolation and folk horror.

Cloudhouse is set in the isolated 'green desert' of rural Wales, where rainwater from the mountains waterlogs the muddy lanes, making running for your life so much harder.

A brutal drugs gang commandeer an abandoned farmhouse with a dark history. They transform it into a cannabis grow-house.

Inside, pollen chokes the air like smoke. Dangerous wires hang low like skinned snakes. Condensation seeps towards overloaded electrical sockets. Blazing floodlights mimic the sun.

The windows are blocked, the doors are locked.

A smuggled-over Vietnamese teenager is imprisoned inside this death trap, forced to live a nightmare life of modern slavery. A violent and sadistic gang member pays regular visits. The boy desperately tries to break out before one or the other kills him.

Yet even worse things lurk outside.

They come at night, scratching at the windows and growling at the doors.

They come to destroy anyone that invades or tampers with the Cloudhouse.

All Accolades & Coverage: 

A very early draft of CLOUDHOUSE placed Top 10% in PAGE International.

Top 18% of Horror projects on Coverfly.

Submitted: November 7, 2023
Last Updated: January 2, 2024

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The Writer: JD Savage

I'm a produced and optioned screenwriter, traditionally published author, comic writer and journalist. My previous projects include co-writing the BAFTA winning kids' TV series Ripley and Scuff for ITV and writing/editing ITV's BAFTA nominated movie website Popcorn. I've scripted TV shows and video specials for popular British children's characters and had an original live-action kids' sitcom optioned (and renewed twice). More recently: my animation pilot was chosen to be performed by voice actors at 2021's UK Children's Media Conference. I had a script optioned by Lost Eye Films for a TV horror/fantasy anthology series. An early draft of my horror movie screenplay Cloudhouse placed Top 10... Go to bio

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