Find Me at the Roadside by Steve Garry | Script Revolution

Find Me at the Roadside

Two thieves on the run with a hostage come upon a car wreck with a dead man at the wheel who seems to recover with each valuable that they plunder from the car.

Type:

  • Short

Status:

  • Example of work only
Page Count: 
15pp

Genre:

  • Crime, Horror

Budget:

  • Shoestring

Age Rating:

  • 13+
Synopsis/Details: 

A pair of bank robbers are still trying to work out what to do with a teenager they abducted from their last crime scene when they stop at a car accident on a lonely rural road.
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They’ll wish they had kept going.

As they ransack whatever valuables they can from the vehicle and from its mysterious driver, who’s deceased behind the airbag, their temporary stop-off threatens to become permanent.

The thieves’ hostage, handcuffed to the bumper of the get-away vehicle back on the road, can only watch in fear as the dead-as-a-doornail driver revives and launches a murderous rampage against the duo.

What drives this killer from the dead, and will the teen be next?

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Producers: Please contact me for the full script/synopsis, or buy the Kindle version at
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MP1H25D

Note: As of June, 2018, this short and the 3 others I've written have been compiled into a feature anthology, "Stories for a Summer Beach Party". This is how I'd prefer to have them produced:

https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/stories-for-a-summer-beach-party

Submitted: May 31, 2018
Last Updated: February 10, 2022

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The Writer: Steve Garry
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