Based on a the urban legend.
The Silver Star intercepts a haunting MayDay call from the near by Ourang Medan. When the crew of the Silver Star board the Medan, they find something far worse than they could have expected.
1. Concept - It's nice to see your take on an urban legend and recreate it with your own style and such. It paid off in my opinion here.
2. Story - Although the story is good and fairly simple, it ended almost exactly how I thought it would. As I've mentioned before though, this could just be a nitpick thing of mine as I watch too many movies.
3. Structure - I'll leave this as is since your str...
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