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FAMILIAR
GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
BUDGET: $10 MILLION
LOGLINE: In an isolated 1940’s mansion, Richard Mason is trapped in a cycle of domestic abuse with a monstrous vampire, forced to find victims to feed its insatiable thirst. When a local woman awakens his humanity and a curious police officer begins to close in on his secret, Mason must find the strength to confront his abuser before he is replaced as its servant and killed..
SYNOPSIS:
It is 1942. For the past year, Richard Mason has found himself trapped in a barren, old mansion, caring for the thing that lives in the cellar below the house - a horrifying vampire, forcing him through psychic and physical torment to seek out new victims for it to feed on.
Mason’s mind is assaulted by this hideous creature, which appears to him mentally as a refined older man, blaming the other ‘persona’ for the violence waged against him. Mason is pushed to the point of madness unless he assists in the murder of innocent people.
Mason obeys but slowly finds he has to fight every day - fight against the noises from the bodies below the stairs that won‘t stay dead, the horrific imagery the creature puts into his head in order to break his will and from the fact that he is in a nightmare he cannot escape from.
Mason soon realises, the monster he's been protecting must die...
THE DARK PLACE
GENRE: HORROR FANTASY
BUDGET: $10 MILLION
LOGLINE: In England 1935, four troubled children flee from their abusive orphanage and take refuge in an abandoned cottage in the woods where they are stalked by a boneless, immortal monster of folklore, in league with their sociopathic warden. As they battle to survive, the children are forced to confront their inner demons before they turn on each other.
SYNOPSIS:
England 1935, four young children have escaped into the woods from the loveless environment of the Dunbar Orphanage; in the hopes of finding a home to take them in. In the centre of the dark wood they come across an abandoned cottage and find themselves besieged inside by a hideous fairy tale monster, intent on entering the house and taking them.
The children must fight off not only the monster itself but their own inner demons created by their damaged personas and mental illnesses.
As the bond that connects them breaks down, they turn on each other and discover the monster not only has a dark agenda but is also in league with the sadistic head of the orphanage who is also out hunting for the children.
THE HARROWING
GENRE: HORROR-THRILLER
BUDGET: $15 MILLION
LOGLINE: In a dying 1930s English village with only a handful of residents, the isolated pub owner's suspicions grow that one of the villagers may be a bloodthirsty werewolf. As paranoia tightens its grip, their dark past reveals the chilling origin of a lycanthropic curse.
SYNOPSIS:
In the countryside of 1930’s northern England - the secluded village of Wyck is dying and cursed as a consequence of the awful murder the farming community of fourteen men committed some years before.
Isolated from the other bitter farmers, Thomas Pierce, the owner of the village pub, The Harrow Inn is the first to believe that mutilation killings happening over several nights were not the cause of a man but a monstrous werewolf.
It becomes clear that one amongst them is turning into this monster and as the men begin to turn on each other in their paranoia, Pierce discovers there may be someone who worships the beast enough to help it.
As each night passes by with more murders, the few villagers left are besieged within the Harrow Inn - waiting to face the beast themselves.