Wolfsbane

A tiny mountain camp of wickiups burns. Bludgeoned, bloodied bodies are scattered about. A lone Paiute child walks wearily through the massacre. He drops to his knees and an agonized, enraged scream erupts from his lungs as he falls over, dead. A bloody tear runs down his cheek. The bodies fade, the wickiups disappear and the land where the massacre took place now has a dilapidated lodge and a gas station built upon it. Suddenly, two cars roar past! They smash into each other and soar over a ravine into the snow-covered valley below. Our criminals: DILLON, WADE and VINCENT are under a barrage of gunfire from the driver of the other car. After a tense shootout, Vincent is shot and the driver is killed. They locate SARAH, the passenger of the other car, who is also a cop with ties to Dillon’s past. She is still alive. Dillon devises a plan to keep their stolen cash hidden and to find safety from an incoming snowstorm. They cuff Sarah, dump the driver into a river, and head back to the Lodge and gas station they passed earlier. They search for supplies at the gas station, and instead of finding what they need, they find the body of a young man, dead from an apparent self-Inflicted shotgun blast to the head, and animal-like scratches all over the door he was hiding behind. As they turn to leave, they run into a large white wolf standing at the entrance, staring at them with strangely human eyes. It turns and walks off, watching them as it disappears into the forest. They get to the lodge and hunker down for the night. Dillon wakes from an uncomfortable sleep and looks out the window, seeing a pack of wolves silently watching the lodge through a blanket of blowing snow. The doorknob rattles and twists, startling awake everyone in the room. They brace themselves for whatever comes through the door. OLD GREY, a Native American man in his sixties, bursts through the doors with half a deer carcass over his shoulder. He is not startled by Dillon and his goons, and welcomes them to the lodge with a glass of scotch. He also warns them that “The ones who walk in the woods” are aware that the convicts are hiding out in the lodge and it is going to be a long night for them. Old Grey explains that the mountain is cursed after a tribe of Paiute Indians were slaughtered right where the lodge stands now. The wolves are the warrior spirits who guard the lands and keep anyone who is not of Indian descent out of the mountain pass. He tells them that normally he would advise they leave as soon as possible but with the storm outside, they will have to stay in, try to keep the ghosts out, and deal with the White Wolf, who is not a wolf at all, but a Wendigo that feeds on human flesh. They decide to board up the windows and barricade themselves into the lodge, just in case Old Grey’s story isn’t bullshit. They loot the lodge for supplies. Dillon heads to the basement and is watched by a Baykok, the ghostly, horrific presence of an Indian, who appears and disappears into the shadows before Dillon spots it. They board up the windows and barricade the door, and try to rest up for the night. Sarah and Dillon angrily discuss their past, she finds out that Dillon was involved in the murder of her brother, but that he was not the one who pulled the trigger. Dillon swears it is the truth but Sarah does not believe him and warns him that their feud is not over. Middle of the night. Everyone is sleeping soundly. Wade wakes to use the bathroom. Upstairs, while he relieves himself, he is startled by the sound of breaking glass. He investigates one of the rooms and is attacked by the Baykok, who violently and gruesomely invades his body. He fumbles down the steps, waking everyone. Dillon and Sarah attempt to help him but he mutates into a foul, ooze-dripping man-wolf, who attacks them. After injuring Vincent and biting Dillon, They manage to burn the Wade-Thing and it runs upstairs and escapes out the window. Now shaken and completely unwound, Dillon, Sarah and Vincent devise a plan to escape: Old Grey’s truck, parked in the back of the Lodge. Sarah, being the smallest and the only one not injured, sneaks out of a rear window and out to the garage. Dillon and Vincent address their wounds, Old Grey tells them that Vincent might be ok but since Dillon has been bitten, he will share the same fate as Wade. Dillon refuses To believe this. The wolves begin to howl again. White Wolf walks to the door and begins to change. He becomes a large, bipedal wolf creature with exposed ribs and rotten, twisted antlers. It begins to smash at the front door. The barricade already begins to buckle, so Dillon and Vincent make their way upstairs and block the staircase with furniture. Sarah gets to the garage, where one of the wolves appears from nowhere and stalks her. She hides beneath a workbench as the wolf becomes human and searches around for her. Finding nothing, he returns to his pack. White Wolf has smashed through the barricade and is making his way into the lodge. He passes Old Grey, who gives a respectful nod. Vincent and Dillon go into one of the rooms and knocks an armoire over the door. Vincent’s wounds are still bleeding heavily. Dillon tries to keep his spirits up, but he knows Vincent won’t make it. They open the window and look around for Sarah. In the hall outside the door, is White Wolf. He peers in through a hole in the wall. Dillon helps Vincent out onto the roof as White Wolf smashes through the door, making short work of the armoire. They unload on White Wolf, the bullets having no effect. As White Wolf approaches, Sarah screeches around the corner and pulls up to the lodge. Vincent and Dillon leap into the truck speed off into the night. Vincent, now mortally wounded, asks them to pull over and let him out. Against their wishes, they leave him along side the road with a shotgun. Dillon looks in the rear view. and sees a flash and hears a pop. Vincent is gone. Sarah apologizes for the loss of Dillon’s friend. As Dillon attempts to apologize for the death of Sarah’s brother, the White Wolf leaps onto the hood and forces the truck to swerve and crash into a tree, sending Dillon through the windshield and bouncing off a tree, and knocking Sarah unconscious against the steering wheel. Sarah wakes to see Dillon writhing uncontrollably as his skin swells and coarse hair starts to burst through. White Wolf approaches as Dillon completes the change into a werewolf. The White Wolf and Dillon/Wolf fight to the death, with Dillon being the victor after Impaling the White Wolf on a broken tree stump and breaking its neck. Sarah wakes next to a fire, her wounds dressed. Dillon is now in wolf form. He stands across the fire from Sarah and bows his head. Sarah tells him she forgives him. The wolves call. Dillon retreats into the woods. Sarah walks along the highway as a big truck approaches. She gets into the truck and it drives down the road. Just off the road, hidden in the tree line, is the wolfpack, led by the wolf with the human eyes.