Cover Image for The Creepers

The Creepers feature

Sign In to see % Rating

#Horror

Popular Alaskan paranormal investigations team answers a call to look into a remote haunting at the home of an old woman, but the house holds terrible secrets that even their historian and medium couldn't predict.

Awards

Approved

Summary

1 Reviews | 73 pages | 5 years ago | Draft 1
The Creepers paranormal investigation team is made up of its two co-founders, and four others, who are based in Anchorage, Alaska. They agree to investigate the home of a woman in a small town where other weird events have occurred in the past. When they arrive, they are not prepared for what they encounter as the cameras keep catching paranormal activity beyond the scope of their experiences. Discovering that the house itself has no history of violence, nor the land itself, it is soon revealed that something deep and sinister is driving the haunting in this little chalet.

This script is based on true events that occurred in Connecticut. The original story revolved around a very little-known haunting between Burlington and Bristol where a lonely strip of highway through dense, hilly woods was known to harbor the appearance of spirits in Victorian-period clothing. I ran a group of ghosthunters named Creepy Connecticut back in the early 2000s that investigated the haunting. There wasn't much to go on but suffice it to say that we uncovered a huge treasure trove of information regarding a village named Polkville that appeared on maps before 1890, but then was mysteriously wiped from the subsequent maps. The story of why it disappeared was both creepy and appalling. Needless to say, the discovery of this information led to so much exposure of the story locally, that we were able to talk about it in local newspapers.

Industry Reviews

No Industry Reviews

Peer Reviews

The first 30 pages of The Creepers reads like the start of a traditional horror thriller - a disparate group of people go into what they think is a non threatening situation which turns out to be exactly the opposite and nearly everyone dies a horrible death - but as the story progresses it veers into the format of a much slower moving, supernatural horror until right at the end, where it vacillates between the two as if the writer isn't sure whe...

Recommended for You

Descension

After his estranged mother passes away, a man named Gary Arthur goes on a murderous downward spiral, all the while hiding in plain sight, and mystifying investigators.

Alternative (Rough Draft)

After getting fed up with evil winning in the end of horror movies, a man decides to take matters into his own hands.

Varkazana Ascension

They were once sentinels that protected humanity. That era is over. The werewolf apocalypse has begun.

BlogMother

Subscribe
to our Newsletter

Get up-to-date in industry knowledge, Scripts of the Month and more. By subscribing to our newsletter, you'll never miss the best stuff we have to offer.