Submission Samples from the Mystery Genre

Title: FIRE MAN

Logline: A lost soul wanders out of a California desert, saves a young boy while being burned alive.

Synopsis: PITCH: MAN WITH TWO FACES meets THE SIXTH SENSE After saving the young boy, Fire Man struggles between life, death, reality and illusions. The boy, Aaron Ross, befriends his hero while dealing with the loss of his mother and the alienation of affection from his father. LAPD Homicide Detective Ellis while seeking the identity of our hero, finds instead a trail that leads to murder, revenge, sexual predator and prey. During hospital visits with his recovering father and Fire Man, Aaron attracts the attention of someone whose lust cries out for satisfaction. Not all heros are born out of the pages of a comic book, some are just like you and me accept for the circumstances of their lives. This is one of those stories where one man's love for his son not only affects him but changes the lives of those around him. IF THIS HAS PIQUED YOUR INTEREST, I'D BE HAPPY TO SEND A COPY OF MY 117 PAGE, WGA REGISTERED SCREENPLAY FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

Title: The Hit

Logline: A passionate chomping-at-the-bit priest struggles with murder and lust.

Synopsis: One night a week the Reel Salty Writers arrive. WALLY, mid 50's, aka FATHER PEKAN is the newest member of the writers group. CASH OOH, mid 40's the Director of The Holistic Learning Center heads up the group. FRANNIE BRAZIL, early 40's, a romance author, ALMONDO MAS, late 40's, an emergency room nurse with a dream, SHEILA SPANISH, late 20's, beauty salon operator and aspiring actress and PETER PINE, early 30's, a professional bowler and documentay filmaker. After a day of work and personal compromise they enter The Lodge Room of the local watering hole in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Sportsmans Club with backpacks, satchels and notebooks. They bring life experiences, imagination and a sense of humor to the old oak table. Meanwhile, when a mysterious death is revisited by BOB COPPER, mid 60's, an investigator, a finger of suspicion points at Wally the creator of the murder scene in the collaboration of the award winning script.

Title: Resurrection

Logline: The remnant conception of a transcended being initiates the reawakening of his consciousness and unfortunately the dispersion of our universe.

Synopsis: For sharing your time, I thank you; During the pass six years, I've been a District of Columbia Firefighter EMT. The work in discussion is as titled. - The remnant conception of a transcended being initiates the reawakening of his consciousness and unfortunately the dispersion of our universe. "That ancient man's death converges his mind to a particle found within all worlds. Now. This modern day. The enigma's consciousness awakens, initiating dissolutions of concrete worlds. Who then is it that triumphantly resurrects? Is it he? Or: the hero Cathedral, compelled to claims of also being one godly. Cathedral transforms his mind and perceptions in acceptance to a deep calling. The necessary aide to comprehend forms where his enigmatic opposition resides. Dispersion of the entire universe is at immediate stake." I look forward to our further correspondence. Thank You Sincerely,

Title: The Lights

Logline: I'm not familiar with the term logline but this movie consist of animated snakes with real people playing the characters, a preview of my movie, the first two scenes is on youtube.com/bluecoatent901

Synopsis: This is a murder,mystery,my movie is about a girl who comes to memphis because of hurricane katrina, she meet a cop,she liked him, he took her to a secluded place where his other buddy officers were, they raped her and beat her up because she refused to do such things.They beat her and left her for dead but she didn't die, some people found her, got her help, now she's back for revenge killing the officers one by one. She use voo-doo to kill her victims, they see killer snakes coming to get them,either they kill themselves or the snakes will or some one else will. The lights is what trigger the reaction for them to see the snakes, the movie opens where she's killing her first victim,I filmed the first two scenes of the movie to shed some light on the script, check it out, youtube.com/bluecoatent901.I was hoping this would help me sell the script quicker and easier,thank you, screenplay by Leon Buttermilk Bonner.

Title: Proof

Logline: We follow a young girl from her teenage years get educated with bible prophecy and her own experiences in the supernatural to help bring about Armageddon in a good way.

Synopsis: We follow Stacey from her teenage years until she receives her final prophecy living in America taking her to Isreal. She never knows where it will lead and a very heroic attitude of seeing the knowledge reveal itself. She never gets tired in her search for the truth and knows no fear. She conquers those who try to prevent her from finding the truth. She joins forces with her sister and an angel sent to help her to get to those who will bring about the end of the age of mans government. It is a new concept of what Armageddon is going to be. It uses bible prophecies along with the latest archeological finds in the Israel country to bring a fascinating story together using magical ideas of demons and angels. What if all religions are wrong and it's all about learning that God is for everyone and not just a certain religion. We see a fight to bring about Armageddon for the betterment of mankind instead of end time destruction as depicted in most stories.

Title: P.I.

Logline: A small-time detective is hired to investigate the sexual mutilation/murder of a Beverly Hills socialite who was not only the wife of his best friend, but his former lover.

Synopsis: Bloody footprints on elegant white carpet greet small-time private investigator Tom Hicks when he is called to the Beverly Hills home of his childhood friend Mike Hannigan. Tom finds him in the den, drunk and confused, and unable to understand his ramblings, Tom follows the trail upstairs to the master bedroom where he discovers the mutilated body of Mike's wife; murdered and posed to look like a sex game gone horribly wrong. Now in order to prove his friend's innocence - and his own - Tom must admit his affair with the victim and deal with the disturbing revelations about the love of his life as the case leads him deeper and deeper into a world of drugs and sex clubs.

Title: The Waltz of the Butterfly

Logline: An international coffee magnate with a dark past saves a homeless woman from freezing and later faces death when he discovers her true identity.

Synopsis: ALEXANDER FARTHERINGTON is enfatuated with ROZALIA,a sensuous homeless woman. One night he rescues her from a makeshift shelter and takes her to his mansion. Rozalia awakes with VERENA at her bedside, befriends her, and is astounded when she finds out who she is. Alexander hires an executive manager, RAFAEL CARDENAS, who turns out to be an unsuspecting nemises for him and his dubious life. Alexander conducts illicit transactions with JAYDEE, a gangster, who ends up double-dealing him and cultivating a relationship with beautiful Rozalia. A jealous Alexander seeks Rozalia's attention persistenly, but she scarcely acknowledges his presence. He searches her face inscrutably and wonders who she is. The aftermath dramatically links the characters' identities, tryingly unwraps Alexander's horrendous past, and reaches an unpredictable outrageous ending.

Title: IN SEARCH OF

Logline: A college student abandon at birth by his mother is on a fact finding mission to locate his biological family is surprised at what he finds.

Synopsis: Christopher Miles has just return from visiting a friend in the Hospital that had a heart attack, concern about not knowing his own family medical history, he goes to a DNA clinic to get tested for at risk diseases, when afterwards he meets a myterious woman on the street who gives him the name of a man he looks like from her past and where she last saw him. He travels to Blacksburg Virginia, where he learns that the now deceaesed man had sex with myterious woman nine months before he was born. IF THIS PIQUED YOUR INTEREST I WILL LIKE TO SEND A COPY OF MY 114 PAGE, WGA REGISTERED SCREENPLAY FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

Title: Inevitable Pilot

Logline: When an innocent Irish lad comes to America to dig up his family's past, he falls in love with beguiling young woman whose wealthy and eccentric family have devilish plans of their own.

Synopsis: A one-hour dramedy/mystery series. An innocent, inexperienced, and modest eighteen-year-old, Irish boy Josh, inherits a hundred-year-old dilapidated house in Washington, DC. The house was built by his Great Grandfather, a suspected underworld leader in his day, who is rumored to have hidden a portion of his wealth somewhere on the property. An unknown party is going to illegal lengths to acquire the house. The trust attorney, a local Priest, and even his Godfather back in Ireland, become pawns in the buyer's efforts to get the property. Josh meets eighteen-year-old Kathy, a beautiful young woman from a very wealthy, very eccentric family. He immediately becomes the target of their elaborate, no limits practical jokes. However, no matter how embarrassed or angry Josh becomes, he keeps going back for more. There is a dark side to Kathy's family. Secrets they would kill to protect. But in their effort to corrupt Josh, he has quite a different affect on each of them.

Title: CHANCES R

Logline: A computer with learning and thought capabilities which stem from experimental interfacing with intelligent biological matter from a human brain falls unwittingly into the hands of a private citizen.

Synopsis: This techno-thriller follows a government A.I. hybrid computer through a series of dangerous, peculiar, and humorous events, beginning with its action-packed suspenseful heist from a clandestine research facility, followed by a foiled escape plan. The computer is hidden in a Dumpster, discovered and pawned by an eccentric aristocrat and purchased by an unsuspecting bachelor. As it begins to comprehend its existence and explore its ever-changing environment, an uncanny relationship develops between computer and human. A mystery unravels as the computer discovers it has a female human counterpart being used as a guniea pig to improve modern technology, and it sets out on a desperate mission to save her, bringing justice to those involved in unethical and criminal behavior. An intense race against time ensues and suspense builds as an unlikely cast of characters and bizarre circumstances combine to unfold the mystery, resulting in a shocking climax and unimaginable ending.