Tag Line:
With every myth lies a scarier truth
Log Line: While
holidaying at Loch Ness a father and daughter find there is something sinister lurking
in the depths of the Loch Ness.
Synopsis: A
father treats his teenage daughter to a holiday in Scotland, renting out a cosy
cabin in the woods where he and his wife stayed for their honeymoon before she
died a couple of years later. While out yachting on the Loch Ness Isabelle’s
father entertains her with a story about an encounter he once had with the
mythical creature the Loch Ness monster. While listening to the story, Isabelle
dangles her feet into the lake and catches her toe on what they both think must
have been a sharp object in the water. It turns out it wasn't just a scratch at all but she has been bitten by an undiscovered species of eerily white slug, sensitive to bright light, that then burrows itself under her skin where it can breed safely shielded by the light. It is only when day turns to night that Isabelle discovers what she has been harbouring within her own body.
Isabelle tosses and turns while trying to sleep in the small
wooden bed situated in the corner of the dark log cabin, her dad sleeps soundly
in the bed adjacent to hers. There is a small window next to the young girls’
bed on which thick green curtains hang crookedly creating a tiny slither of
moonlight that streaks across her bed.
Something is irritating the girl and she scratches her leg
while half asleep, as her short bitten nails scrape over the skin she feels
something unusual that provokes her to sit upright. She pushes the covers off
her legs and looks down, she can see nothing except where the moonlight slices
across her legs it highlights small red lumps. She leans over to switch the
lamp on which reveals the lumps cover her legs completely, her face contorts in
horror and she calls out to her dad. As he awakes one of the lumps burst
releasing sickly green pus that drips down her leg causing the girl to recoil
in disgust and screech out for her dad once more. He rushes over to her and inspects
the pus filled lump that her shaking finger is pointing at. It’s not just pus
that fills it, something small and an off-whitish colour surfaces from the lump and slides out
down her leg, leaving a shimmering trail behind it, then drops to the floor. Frozen
in terror they have no time to react before all the other lumps start to burst one
by one like an unstoppable chain reaction.
The girl’s eyes widen in horror as the pus oozes out from
her body and slimy white creatures begin poking out, their heads slowly snaking
side to side before the rest of their body emerges and they all trickle to the
floor. The ghost-like slugs writhe around and begin absorbing the
green liquid that once harboured them and as they do so they grow in size and
small razor like teeth become apparent, protruding outwards but barely visible against their pale bodies. The girl shoots back onto the bed as
the dad cautiously steps away looking for something to grab in defence but not
sure what.
Suddenly as if something had signalled them to do so the
creatures simultaneously start worming their way up the overhanging bed covers
towards the girl, she screams out to her dad as they leap on to her legs and
tear into her lumpy skin with their blade-like teeth. She yelps out with a
chilling scream that echoes around the room and starts thrashing her legs about
in vain. Finally her dad snaps into action and desperately tries to pull the
creatures from her but as fast as he is pulling them out they are working their
way back to her legs and continuing to gouge out small chunks of her open
flesh. The girl convulses around on the bed, violently kicking her legs and as
she does so she knocks the curtain allowing moonlight to flood in momentarily
and as it hits the feasting creatures they stop dead then all at once they move
off the girl and quickly wriggle their way across the room, under the door and
out into the safety of darkness.
Visual Realisation:
I think this film would start off quite bright so the shots would have a slight overexposure to them and have a sort of white glow. My thoughts with this are I want the film to seem quite normal at the start so you don't know it's a horror from the onset and you don't know what's coming, it will appear to be just a drama. I want there to be a brightness to it so it gives just a slight sense of a slight eeriness and something not being quite right. I also want it to have a very calm feel to it so it just follows the journey of the father and daughter to their holiday destination and where they're staying is very remote so there's not really many other people that they come into contact with.
When they visit the lake it will be during early morning which I think the slight over-exposure would suit quite also giving a coldness to the shots.
The cabin will be situated close to the lake and surrounded by trees, it will have quite a minimalist feel with not many mod cons but will also have a slight cosiness to it at the same time with solid wood furniture, a real fire, thick warm furnishings a couple of old pictures on the wall.
When the horror starts the cabin will no longer have a cosy feel to it, it will seem more isolated and bare and as it's at night it will be quite dark with just the coldness of the moon slicing through. There will be one other source of light introduced in the scene where the slugs are revealed and that will be a lamp that the girl switches on and this will produce a concentrated amount of light around the girl and her bed but doesn't really light the room up much. This is so the light if focused and highlights the action going on which is the slugs.
Locations:
I think this would be a good film to shoot on location as it would enhance the atmosphere a lot more if you're actually there rather than trying to recreate it. Also the lake is a very famous and well-known one so I think you would have to shoot it there because people would recognise if it wasn't there. If it was a relatively unknown lake then I think obviously any lake would have sufficed. I did a bit of research into the Loch Ness and they need to be on a boat that allows the girl to seat on the side and dip her feat in so i had a look at what boats you can hire on the Loch Ness and the most suitable one I felt would be a yacht as that's a nice thing for a father and daughter to do together and it's not too high up that she can't sit on the side.
Visual Realisation:
I think this film would start off quite bright so the shots would have a slight overexposure to them and have a sort of white glow. My thoughts with this are I want the film to seem quite normal at the start so you don't know it's a horror from the onset and you don't know what's coming, it will appear to be just a drama. I want there to be a brightness to it so it gives just a slight sense of a slight eeriness and something not being quite right. I also want it to have a very calm feel to it so it just follows the journey of the father and daughter to their holiday destination and where they're staying is very remote so there's not really many other people that they come into contact with.
When they visit the lake it will be during early morning which I think the slight over-exposure would suit quite also giving a coldness to the shots.
The cabin will be situated close to the lake and surrounded by trees, it will have quite a minimalist feel with not many mod cons but will also have a slight cosiness to it at the same time with solid wood furniture, a real fire, thick warm furnishings a couple of old pictures on the wall.
When the horror starts the cabin will no longer have a cosy feel to it, it will seem more isolated and bare and as it's at night it will be quite dark with just the coldness of the moon slicing through. There will be one other source of light introduced in the scene where the slugs are revealed and that will be a lamp that the girl switches on and this will produce a concentrated amount of light around the girl and her bed but doesn't really light the room up much. This is so the light if focused and highlights the action going on which is the slugs.
Locations:
I think this would be a good film to shoot on location as it would enhance the atmosphere a lot more if you're actually there rather than trying to recreate it. Also the lake is a very famous and well-known one so I think you would have to shoot it there because people would recognise if it wasn't there. If it was a relatively unknown lake then I think obviously any lake would have sufficed. I did a bit of research into the Loch Ness and they need to be on a boat that allows the girl to seat on the side and dip her feat in so i had a look at what boats you can hire on the Loch Ness and the most suitable one I felt would be a yacht as that's a nice thing for a father and daughter to do together and it's not too high up that she can't sit on the side.
