Petrified by JD Savage | Script Revolution

Petrified

An itinerant 12-year-old, bounced from foster home to foster home, must fight to escape becoming a permanent fixture of an ancient stone circle's sinister legend.

Type:

  • Short

Status:

  • For sale
Page Count: 
13pp

Genre:

  • Comedy, Horror

Budget:

  • Shoestring

Age Rating:

  • 17+
Copyright Details: 
© JD Savage
Synopsis/Details: 

They spike up from the remote landscape of Yorkshire's high moorland. A circle of standing stones rich in sinister legend.

The Skuggibarn circle dates back to when six vicious boys terrorised the villages below. They blinded livestock, set fire to barns and chicken houses and fouled the drinking water. They attacked villagers with sticks and stones and invaded their homes at night.

Some say these malevolent brats were changelings. Children once switched with human babies by faeries or demons, turned feral. Finally - as punishment - they were turned into stone parodies of human children. The Skuggibarn Stones.

Connor's new folklorist foster father is taking him hiking in the hills to see the stone circle. The troubled 12-year-old has already run away from two foster homes. Soon, he'll need to run faster than ever before.

Submitted: September 5, 2023
Last Updated: September 29, 2023

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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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