Creative Notes:
A horror comedy script originally designed for a low budget indie production, revised slightly for the possibility of a bigger special effects budget.
Shoot The Dead
When two career criminals rip off a notorious underworld boss, they don't bank on making the hit list of a powerful satanist. Hunted down by vampires, zombies and chainsaw-wielding freaks, they'll have to use every dirty trick they know just to make it through the night...
Synopsis:
The Thatcher brothers are life long criminals in the employ of London's most notorious crime lord, Nathan James. On what should have been a routine exchange with a yardie gang, the brothers decide to go freelance, shooting everyone and high-tailing it for the countryside with a bag full of cash and a mysterious artefact. However, unknown to them, Nathan James is the darkly powerful minion of Satan himself, and, along with the mysterious voodoo priest The Monday Man, makes a vow to have his property returned.
Hiding in an abandoned farm house in a sleepy village in the midlands, the Thatcher boys soon learn they are the target of a monstrous vampire hitman, as well as a trio of nigh-indistructable voodoo minions. Worse still, the artefact they carry is the mortal remains of a long dead demon, capable of raising the dead.
It's not long before the hapless gangsters find themselves pitting pistol and switchblade against an army of zombies, and seeing another dawn seems less and less likely. When all hope seems lost, Nathan James arrives to offer them a choice- hand over the key to Hell on Earth to the most evil man in London, or take a one way trip through a zombie's digestive track.
With typical recalcitrance, the Thatcher brother's opt for third choice: blowing the statue to smithereens and sending Nathan James back to Hell to deal with his angry boss. With the source of their power depleted, the armies of undead fall, leaving the Thatcher boys free to pursue their early retirement.
Hiding in an abandoned farm house in a sleepy village in the midlands, the Thatcher boys soon learn they are the target of a monstrous vampire hitman, as well as a trio of nigh-indistructable voodoo minions. Worse still, the artefact they carry is the mortal remains of a long dead demon, capable of raising the dead.
It's not long before the hapless gangsters find themselves pitting pistol and switchblade against an army of zombies, and seeing another dawn seems less and less likely. When all hope seems lost, Nathan James arrives to offer them a choice- hand over the key to Hell on Earth to the most evil man in London, or take a one way trip through a zombie's digestive track.
With typical recalcitrance, the Thatcher brother's opt for third choice: blowing the statue to smithereens and sending Nathan James back to Hell to deal with his angry boss. With the source of their power depleted, the armies of undead fall, leaving the Thatcher boys free to pursue their early retirement.
Latest Work
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Script 1 - steven's Original Draft08/23/11
