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Make your own horror movie.

- You have to give full details about your movie - from the moment of conception till the final release, involving basic premise idea, script, choice of producer, director, actors, music directors, cinematographers and other film crew. Elaborating on shooting locations, length of time involved in the shooting, marketing (viral or direct) and promotion leading up to the final release. And of course, the suitable title.

Well, I wasn’t exactly sure if the judges would be looking for originality, marketability or franchise potential so I went with a combination of all of the above. This is an original story by Brian Wind. It follows the fairly standard recipe for horror success in that we have a secluded group of good looking teens in a perilous situation with minimal help from the outside world where they’ll be killed off one by one. The villain I am using is one that, quite frankly, I’m surprised hasn’t been done before (or at least hasn’t been done well.) Basically, my goal with this was to come up with an idea that could easily be the next big summer horror movie without feeling like something stale that we’ve already seen a hundred times before. I hope you enjoy it….


SPRING BREAK

RURAL MEXICO, YUCATAN PENINSULA – ONE WEEK AGO

An old man & his granddaughter are just finishing up a day of fishing. It's dusk and they are on their way home. The girl is playful and skips ahead. Grandpa warns her to stay close. She stops. As he closes the distance between them, he notices a glowing red pair of eyes. He gasps as an ominous dark figure darts across the path and snatches his granddaughter and disappears with her in to the blackness of the jungle. She screams as grandpa races to the scene and shines a flashlight in to the jungle, but sees nothing. The screams fade in to the distance and then silence. Grandpa falls to his knees, weeping.

CANCUN MEXICO – PRESENT DAY

Spring Break is in full swing at a fancy Oceanside resort. Hundreds of bronzed college-aged coeds drink, dance and party in the most hedonistic of ways. One girl, Kristen, sticks out like a sore thumb as she sits quietly at poolside sipping a margarita as she flips through the pages of a book about Mexican history and mythology. Also at her table are Heather and Laura, both drinking heavily and grading every guy that walks past based solely on appearance. Amanda approaches holding another round of drinks. She sets them on the table and rolls her eyes ar Kristen before asking when she's going to put down the book and loosen up. Kristen responds that she's fine, but then Laura and Heather take Amanda's side and attempt goading Kristen in to loosening up too. They mention that they've already been in Mexico for two full days and Kristen has yet to make out with anyone, unlike Nicole who has already made out with everyone and gotten laid four times. To emphasize this point, they nod towards Nicole, who is busy sucking some guy's face with her hand down his pants in plain view of everyone. Kristen groans and tells them she'll never get drunk enough to act like that. This prompts Amanda to offer a deal. Amanda tells Kristen that if she parties hard enough and gets drunk enough to leave her virginity in Mexico tonight, then tomorrow they will all go do something nerdy with her... Whatever she wants. Upon hearing the offer, Kristen softens her stance a bit. Heather and Laura both agree to go along with whatever she wants to do. Kristen is close to agreeing, but objects saying Nicole would never go for it. Amanda promptly retrieves Nicole, who arrives, dragging the guy she's with behind her by the johnson. Nicole introduces her guy as Bach, the Asian DJ party man. Amanda recaps the deal to her and Nicole is reluctant. Nicole says she isn't interested in sightseeing and doubts Kristen will get laid. Bach pulls her aside and whispers in her ear that he'll go with on whatever nerdy endeavor Kristen picks and also that he might be able to help get her laid. As Nicole returns to the girls, she announces she's in. Kristen reluctantly agrees to party hard tonight in exchange for choice of activities tomorrow. The girls cheer and then insist that Kristen has some catching up to do as Amanda heads back to the bar for shots.

HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT

The sun has gone down but the party is still raging. Heather is passed out on a couch. Kristen, Amanda and Laura are around a table playing drinking games with CC, a skinny pale guy, Deuce, a tough dude, and Noel, a handsome and charming guy. Nicole stands up and leads Bach towards a bedroom. Sufficiently intoxicated, Kristen stands up and announces that she needs to go to lay down but first she has to fulfill her end of the bargain and asks who wants to get laid. The guy's all look at each other, silently determining which of them will get to capitalize on this opportunity. Deuce and Noel both agree that CC needs it most. CC, looking timid, rises from his seat and follows Kristen in to a bedroom.

TOUR BUS - NEXT DAY

The open air tour bus zips along a dirt path carved through the middle of the jungle. Roberto, jovial and portly, drives as Fernando stands beside him facing the passengers and describing local landmarks in to a megaphone. In the front seat, an elderly couple, Mr. & Mrs. Nyberg listen intently. A seat behind them, Perry, a 30-something photographer snaps pictures of the foliage as they go. In the back several seats are Kristen, Amanda, Laura, Heather, CC, Noel, Deuce, Bach and Nicole, with the exception of Kristen who seems pretty chipper, they all seem incredibly hungover. Heather asks how much further but before she gets an answer she leans out of the bus and begins puking. Kristen excitedly tells CC about the tour. She's clearly thrilled to be on her way to visit the Mayan Ruins.

Thud! The bus screeches to a halt. Roberto and Fernando bicker back and forth in Spanish. The passengers are mainly concerned. Deuce questions what they just hit. Fernando grabs the rifle that hangs above the driver’s seat and steps off the bus to investigate. Upon seeing a carcass beneath the bus, he calls to Roberto, who also gets off the bus. The two men stand in front of the bus examining the road kill of a small creature that looks something like a hybrid between a man and dog. Everyone else looks on curiously as Fernando and Roberto drag the small carcass out from under the bus and to the side of the road. None of them have ever seen anything like it. Perry furiously snaps pictures.

As Roberto and Fernando discard the road kill and start heading back towards the bus, the jungle nearby rustles. Both men freeze in their tracks. Fernando raises the rifle. A massive beast, similar to the one they hit but five times as large leaps from the undergrowth and pounces on Roberto. In an instant, it savagely snaps his neck then plunges it's teeth in before dragging Roberto's lifeless form towards the jungle. Fernando fires the rifle twice, but the shots both miss due to the speed that the creature is moving.

Fernando returns to a bus full of shocked and hysterical passengers. Deuce asks "What the fuck was that?" Fernando babbles to himself in Spanish for a moment. His sentence ends with a word they all recognize..."Chupacabra." The word sends a wave of panic and skepticism across the passengers. Amanda urges him to get to get them the Hell out of there. Fernando seems to snap out of it and takes the driver's seat, but his face sinks. Roberto had the keys. Deuce makes his way to the front of the bus and begins trying to hotwire it. A few minutes later, the engine roars to life which leads to a brief celebration, but it's cut short as just as quickly the engine sputters out, dead. Once again, panic sets in on the passengers. The trees begin to rustle again and Fernando raises the rifle. The Chupacabra emerges in a blur, leaping from the undergrowth and landing on top of the bus's rollbar. Fernando fires. The shot hits the beast in the midsection but has minimal effect. With great speed, the Chupacabra reaches a clawed hand through the open aired roof of the bus and swipes at Fernando. Fernando falls backwards, avoiding the claw as he fires another shot. The shot misses. Mrs. Nyberg begins to scream hysterically as she and everyone else realize in unison that the swipe meant for Fernando ended up decapitating Mr. Nyberg instead. The Chupacabra disappears in to the jungle with the severed head as quickly as it appeared.

Hysterical, Laura freaks out, climbs out the back of the bus and begins running down the path they came in on. Bach yells for her to come back but she ignores him. Bach and Nicole decide, against the urging of the rest of the group and against their better judgment, to go after her. The three are soon out of sight.

In the bus, the group weighs their options. Fernando advises they wait with the bus because there are no towns for dozens of miles in either direction, plus another tour could be coming along at any time. Noel asks if there is a radio on the bus and Fernando informs him there is but it doesn't work. Amanda asks how far to the ruins and Fernando informs her they are about four miles ahead. The group scours the bus for any supplies that may be of use but only come up with one flare gun with three flares and a couple bottles of water, in addition to Fernando's rifle, which is only has a total of 8 rounds left. Fernando shoots the flare gun in to the sky then sets it aside.