Post by Publicist on Apr 15, 2017 7:05:29 GMT -5
Silent, but Deadly!
Rayven Hardy stars in this thriller as high school senior Jennifer Roland. Roland lives a busy life as captain of the cheer squad, and most popular girl in school, but when her friends begin getting picked off one by one, she realizes the boy she once ignored (Ashton Jericho) has grown silent, but deadly!
OPENING SCENE
The rumble of the black Firebird T-top echoed through the woods as its headlights slashed through the night and fell on a dark cabin in the middle of nowhere. The car idled to a stop and the lights cut off, casting the lone structure back into a shroud of darkness. In the driver’s seat, a handsome blonde jock looked around for any sign of anyone else in the area. He chuckled and gave a shake of his head.
“Dude! There isn't anyone within miles of this place! Are you sure the party is supposed to be up here? The text said this was the address for the party, right? This place is dark as fuck…I didn’t see anyone else driving up this way.”
The young girl in the passenger seat gave a hard sigh as she cast a disgusted look in his direction. She obviously had other things on her mind besides the impending arrival of the rest of their friends. Narrowing her eyes, she leveled him with a venomous retort.
“Jesus FUCKING Christ! Seriously, I would have stayed with Ashton if I knew you were such a goddamn pussy!
The jock snatched the lit cigarette from her hand and threw it out as he rolled up the windows and locked the doors. She smirked at him, daring him to go further. He grabbed her by her throat, choking her as he pulled her in and smashed his lips against hers, ramming his tongue down her throat. This was a power game the two had played before, with her as the antagonist...pushing him to higher and higher levels of aggression that she desired. He shoved her back, knocking her against the door as he glared at her.
“You think that fucking ass clown has anything on me? That’s why you dumped his stupid ass in the first place Babe!
The girl grinned at him, licking her lips and looking him up and down. She took off her jacket and unbuttoned her shirt as she leaned back and beckoned him over. The jock looked around, concern evident on his face.
“What if someone comes?”
“If it’s me…don’t worry about it, if it’s you…just pull out!”
She grabbed him and pulled him down on top of her, kissing him furiously as she worked to unbuckle his pants. He pulled off his shirt and grinned as the girl worked at his zipper…
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Outside the car, a stranger approaches in the darkness dressed in black. The gleam of the moonlight glints off a long blade in the stranger's hand. The person in black comes to a stop at the passenger side of the car as it rocks back and forth and hands struggle for purchase against the foggy window; the obvious sounds of furious sex coming from inside. A gloved hand reaches for the door handle and yanks it open. The girl spills half way out of the car, hanging upside down as her head hits the ground, dazing her. The jock’s eyes go wide as he comes face to face with the stranger, a man with his face painted stark white with a single black tear drop, like a mime.
“What the fuck bro?”
The mime spoke not a word as his gloved hand tightened around ominous blade in his hand. Quick and unrelenting, the silent man lashed out with his blade and blood splattered the seat of the car as a scream echoed through the woods. A bright red gash appeared on the side of the jock’s face. He continued to scream, grasping at his ruined face as he scrambled back over the to the driver’s side. The mime turned his attention to the girl as she slowly came to. She blinked as she tried to clear her vision, staring upside down and into the face of the knife welding mime as he knelt down beside side her.
“Ash…?"
The car’s engine roared to life and the car took off as the girl screamed, her head dragging against the ground.
“STOP THE CAR!! STOP THE FUCKING CAR!! OH MY GO...”
Her screams are abruptly cut off as the car door swings open, then hits the side of a tree and slams shut, tearing the girl in half as the car speeds off, fishtailing wildly into the night. The body twitches in the darkness as the mime walks over to the mangled body of the girl, her entrails pulled out along the dusty road. She coughs and dark red blood erupts like a fount as she breathes her last breath. The knife falls from his hand as he takes off his gloves and goes down to his knees, no words escape him as his body quakes cradling the bloody mangled remains of the girl in the darkened roadway…
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PRESENT DAY...
The story opens on Rushton Oakes High School where Jennifer Roland (Rayven Hardy), captain of the cheerleading squad is part of the most popular clique at school, made up of Alexandra 'Alex' Levy (Melissa Reeves), Julie Saxton (Claire Lisa Daniels), and Grace Hudson (Delia Darling). Alex and Julie are only interested in spending their final year in school partying and having a good time, but Grace wants to dance on a grand stage and Jennifer is focused on getting into theater and pursuing dreams of one day being on Broadway. Jennifer makes friends with the reclusive newcomer, Ashton Jericho (Gavin Grimes), who also seems to have similar dreams of life beyond high school.
Ash is a talented thespian who delights Jennifer with his knowledge of theater, sense of humor, and incredible ability to emote as a mime. The two become fast friends, but it soon becomes apparent that Ash wants more than a casual friendship. Ash finds himself on the receiving end of a humiliating beat down by Jennifer's jealous ex-boyfriend Greg Peters (Adrien Cochrane), star of the school wrestling team and his cohorts, Eric (Johnny Coolbreeze), Billy (Adam Sanders), and Deuce (Dexter Severin). Jennifer stops the assault, along with her theater friends, Shawn Hudson (Dax Beckett) and Caleb O'Neill (Tim Staggs). Later, when Ash attempts to kiss her while she tends to his wounds, she turns him down, saying that she only wants to be friends. Ash's personality takes a dark turn and soon students and faculty alike with ties to Jennifer are killed in gruesome fashion.
Eric is the first to die when he stays in the school gym alone to weight train. While doing presses, he is surprised by a mime standing over him as he lifts. His surprise turns to shock as the mime slashes both of his arms, severing the tendons and causing the weight to crash down on him. Eric dies slowly as the bar crushes his throat as the mime watches and mimics him struggling to lift the weight with his useless arms.
Jennifer is horrified when she receives a Snap Chat of Eric's dead body in the gym. She calls police who respond but find no trace of him or evidence of a crime. Jennifer is distressed when they can't find any trace of Eric, but no one believes her since the picture she received is gone. Jennifer wonders if its a prank being pulled on her by Greg and his friends, but she is quickly assured that it is not when she calls him only to find that he has just received a Snap Chat picture of his friend Deuce making out with his girlfriend Julie, taken from outside a bedroom window. The two frantically try to call their friends and the police.
The scene cuts to Deuce's house as he and Julie are in the middle of having sex. The two are interrupted by the sound of pebbles hitting the window. Deuce gets up and sees a mime outside imitating the two of them having sex. At first he is amused, but when Julie sees that they were being watched, she gets angry and insists that he do something about it. Deuce goes outside to confront the person, and becomes enraged as the mime continues to mock him and his sexual prowess. When Deuce goes after the mime, the two struggle in the dark as Julie yells for him to "Kick that pervy clown's ass!" As Deuce tackles him to the ground, neither of them move. Julie runs outside to see what has happened, and she is horrified to see Deuce with a large knife rammed up through the bottom of his chin and into his skull.
Julie screams and tries to run back into the house and lock the door, but the mime is too fast as he shoves off the body and forces his way inside the house. Julie leads him on a chase through the house where she finally manages to get to the bathroom and lock the door behind her. As the mime attempts to batter down the door, Julie looks for anything she can use to protect herself. The door is battered down and the mime is splashed in the face with bleach. As the mime staggers back in silent agony, Julie attempts to run pass him, only to be caught and slammed into the wall. Julie is dazed on the floor and her vision starts to clear as she gets a look at the leering face of the mime, his makeup now the smeared ruined image portrayed on the movie posters. Julie starts to scream and the mime jams the bottle of bleach in her mouth, holding her down as she chokes on the caustic liquid. He finishes her brutally as he stands and stomps her throat, leaving her to die as red foam bubbles up from her mouth.
The police; Officer Mohr (Mason Moore) and Officer Munson (Ashley Marie Chase) arrive at the same time as Jennifer and Greg and they find the grizzly scene. The two a frantic as police take them into protective custody. They beg for the officers to find their friends as they attempt to calm them. The scene turns surreal as Jennifer and Greg get a Snap Chat that Greg manages to screen capture of Billy, the brother of Officer Munson. Jennifer and Greg are instructed to go to the station while the two officers speed to the scene, trying to call with no success.
The scene cuts to Billy's house as he stands in the darkened basement with a flashlight trying to find the breaker box to restore the power. His mother calls to him from the top of the stairs to ask if he sees what's wrong. Before he can answer, she screams and tumbles down the stairs, her body coming to rest with a hideous crack in the darkness. Billy screams as he runs to help her, just as his cellphone rings. He ignores it as he tries to find his mother, and is shocked as the light shines on her horribly contorted body at the base of the stairs. Billy looks up as he sees a figure silently coming down the stairs and he screams and the ghostly white face is briefly illuminated in the darkness. Billy tries to flee, but he is savagely slashed across his back and falls onto a stack of boxes. He rolls over onto his back, but his screams of terror are abruptly silenced by a powerful stomp to the head that snaps his neck, leaving his head to dangle at a macabre angle.
Officer Mohr and Munson arrive at Billy’s house and make the gruesome discovery. Munson flies into a rage at the sight of her dead brother as Mohr attempts to calm her. A noise from upstairs alerts them to possibility that the killer is still in the house. The two officers search room by room, all the way to the third story. In the last room, they find the door locked and they burst in together, but only find an open window with curtain’s blowing in the night breeze. As the pair turn and holster their weapons, the mime rushes them from a darkened corner, knocking Munson out the window. She screams as she tumbles down, smacking into the concrete below, then her bloody body rolls into the swimming pool. The last image of Munson is of her body drifting down, the water turning crimson around her.
Back in the house, Mohr fights the mime, who manages to disarm him, sending his service weapon sliding under the bed. Mohr uses his superior strength to toss the mime around, slamming him into the wall, the dresser, and nearly sending him crashing through the door that splinters from the fierce fight. Mohr slams the mime to the floor and grabs him as he tries to scramble away. Mohr pulls him back, the blinks in horror as the mime has his gun in hand. The gun thunders as the mime puts six rounds into him, sending him crashing through the door and over the balcony. Mohr falls and crashes through a baby grand piano with an emphatic musical tone that is abruptly ended.
Jennifer and Greg arrive at the station, but they soon realize that the killer isn’t randomly killing people, but he is killing off Jennifer’s friends. They frantically call everyone that they know, but only Alex answers, telling them that the others stayed late at the school. They attempt to alert the police, but there are no more officers in their tiny town. Jennifer and Greg rush to the school as a terrified Alex realizes that her boyfriend, Johnny Rizotto (Gianni Di Luca) also stayed late to workout after football practice. Alex takes off for the school as well, hoping to warn him before it is too late.
At the school, Grace is under a lot of stress. The pressures of the SAT’s weighs heavy on her. Finals are looming near. Debate team, French club, oh, and all of her friends are not answering her texts because they’ve been killed. As in her favorite movie of all time, Footloose, she just has to stay until after 8pm to dance it out to classical music! Grace stumbles on her footing, working on the double axel spin. She needs to feel the music, so she turns it up, louder and louder. As she continues to grow more frustrated, she finds herself spraining her ankle by tripping over nothing. She sits on the ground, holding her ankle as she sees something in the distance, but the spotlight blinds her from seeing it entirely. As she tries to get closer, she finds herself tied up in a stray rope. As she leans down to loosen it up, she hears the rope snap. A bag of powdery sand collapses just inches from her, and she cries out as she stumbles away. Seconds later, another falls, narrowly missing her.
At that moment, Jennifer and Greg arrive, but find the door locked. They pound on the door to try to tell Grace to get out as they see the mime in the production booth, turning the music up to full blast as he severs the final rope that drops the bag of sand on top of Grace, crushing her flat in a sicken splat of blood and gore. Jennifer screams as Greg holds her, until the mime starts a slow methodical walk towards them with murder on his mind. The two run as the mime sets out on a chase to catch them. The pair lead the mime through the school until they finally managed to evade him, only to inadvertently lead him to his next victims.
Grace’s older brother, Shawn and his lover, Caleb get tired of waiting around for Grace to finish practicing. They try to get inside of the school, but the door is locked down. The Principal, Zack Norris (Eddie Walker), comes to the door and tells them that they should just wait outside. Like idiots, the two delinquents laugh it off and find another way inside of the school. Caleb adds another layer of teen drinking trope by breaking out a flask of “drink” that he and Shawn share. They start off looking for Grace, not seeing her crushed under an oversized sandbag. Instead thinking that she took off, so they decide to get freaky in the auditorium.
An obligatory make out scene ensues, as things start to get heavier in the orchestra pit of the auditorium. Shawn is seconds from heaven until drops of blood start to drip onto his face. He finishes anyway, and then he goes to inspect the scene. He finds what is left of his dead sister strung up above him as he screams. He hears Caleb gagging again. Only this time, it is not on him. He turns around to find Caleb with a knife shoved into his mouth, and down his throat! Shawn begins running as he tries to keep his pants held up. He screams, but the music drowns it out until it cuts out. Just then, a swift swing of a shovel from behind causes a tremendous fountain of blood as the edge lodges in the side of his head. The mime kicks his lifeless body and it goes rolling down the auditorium steps, landing next to Caleb as he takes his last breath.
At the other end of the school, football practice has ended, but the most arrogant jock of all is a little apprehensive about showering with the other guys, because is his 'problem.' Johnny gets his phone, ignoring the many messages and missed calls as he starts taking shirtless selfies to post on Twitter when the last player leaves the locker room. He then starts to get ready to get in the shower when he hears a noise. He turns on the water, and then goes to search it out. After looking everywhere, he finds nothing and chalks it up to his imagination. He grabs his soap and shampoo and heads to the showers, giving us a glimpse of his bare bottom. He pauses, lingering for a second, then frowns as he waves his hand in front of his face, having cut an obvious silent gasser (that is silent, but deadly).
Once inside the shower, he begins shampooing. He hears a noise again, and he shouts out at them that it’s occupied. The steam makes it hard to see, but he doesn’t see anything alarming. He reaches to grab the soap, but he immediately drops it on the floor. He thinks long and hard about picking it up, due to the fact that he had once crapped himself bending over because of his loose bowels. He bends over tentatively and he screams as someone runs into the shower with him. To his shock, it is Alex, to his embarrassment he has pooped himself.
Johnny screams at Alex for scaring him, even as she tries to explain what is happening and drag him out of the shower. He shoves her away, trying to clean himself, unwilling to listen to her. As he washes himself, swearing under his breath he doesn't notice a figure creeping in silently behind Alex. The mime covers her mouth from behind, then proceeds to drive his knife into her stomach, ripping and tearing at her until her intestines spill out on the floor. The wet splatter is drowned out by the splash of the water in the shower and Johnny's rambling.
Mime walks into the shower behind Johnny just as he bends over to pick up the soap. Big mistake, as the camera pans out just enough to see the mime as he thrusts his pelvis toward Johnny, making Johnny scream loudly and in pain. The mime is no two knife pump chump as he goes at it for a moment, until Johnny falls over dead. He turns the water off and pulls out Johnny's phone and takes a picture of the gory scene with him in it as a selfie, and uploads it to Twitter before leaving.
Jennifer and Greg find the Principal in his office, wearing headphones and listening to an old replay of the 1987 football game that he lost at the team captain. He is startled and as the pair burst in. They warn him about the murders that are happening and before they can do anything else, the lights shut out in the school. The trio attempt to make it out in pitch darkness, but the three are attacked as the mime bursts out of a locker, knocking Greg and Jennifer flying. The mime stabs the Principal in the stomach, driving him back into the trophy case. As he crashes through the glass, it shatters and a large piece falls from the top, cleanly severing his head at the neck. His head rolls over next to the 1985 and 1986 varsity championship footballs.
Jennifer and Greg find the Principal in his office, wearing headphones and listening to an old replay of the 1987 football game that he lost at the team captain. He is startled and as the pair burst in. They warn him about the murders that are happening and before they can do anything else, the lights shut out in the school. The trio attempt to make it out in pitch darkness, but the three are attacked as the mime bursts out of a locker, knocking Greg and Jennifer flying. The mime stabs the Principal in the stomach, driving him back into the trophy case. As he crashes through the glass, it shatters and a large piece falls from the top, cleanly severing his head at the neck. His head rolls over next to the 1985 and 1986 varsity championship footballs.
The mime is tackled from behind by Greg, before he can retrieve his knife. The pair fight as Grey uses his wrestling ability to beat the mime from pillar to post. Greg sends the mime crashing into the lockers and appears to have the upper hand. The mime gets up and Greg beckons for him to bring it, and the mime charges at him. Greg attempts to dropkick him, but the mime stops in mid-stride as he start to ‘walk against the wind’ and Greg crashes to the floor. The mime charges in and grabs Greg and executes a headlock driver that smashes his head into the marble floor.
The mime and Jennifer go after the knife sticking out of the Principal’s chest at the same time. The two come together and they wrestle for the knife. The mime easily overpowers her, but Jennifer is crafty as she manages to avoid being slashed. Jennifer leads the mime on a chase back through the school, drawing him away from Greg as she narrowly avoids being stabbed, sliding under desks and hurdling over tables. Jennifer continues to try reason with him, calling him by his name “Ash’ as she tries to connect with him. This registers as he suddenly stops staring at her as she tells him how much she loves him and wants to be with him, if only he will talk to her and tell her the same.
Ash opens his mouth to speak…his silence finally about to be broken, and the sounds of gunfire explode all around as blood spatters from his shoulder and he collapses to the ground. Jennifer looks up as Officer Munson comes in, soaking wet, her face a bloody and bruised mess from her fall. Jennifer goes to Ash, even now still concerned for him. Officer Munson pushes her away, just as Ash grabs her and the two wrestle around for her gun. The two fight all over the cafeteria struggling against one another until the gun goes off and both of them stop, staring at one another. The gun goes off several more times as they both jerk and flinch. Finally…blood dribbles from Munson’s mouth and she collapses to the floor, dead from multiple gunshots.
Ash turns and stalks Jennifer, point the gun at her as she begs off and tries to reason with him. She stumbles back into the utensil cart, knocking it over as she goes down in a heap. She continues to try to reason with him, trying to get him to speak again…to break his silence. Ash presses the gun to her forehead as she screams and he pulls the trigger, but it only clicks as the chamber is empty. Ash finally speaks a single word, “fuck” then suddenly he gasps as only a gurgle follows when Jennifer jams a fork into his throat.
Ash stumbles back, wide eyed as he tries to speak again, but only coughs up a splatter of bright red blood. He finally collapses to the floor…blood blossoming out beneath him. Jennifer is relieved to hear the sounds of approaching emergency vehicles as she runs to the window to look out. She turns and screams as she is grabbed from behind…terror turns to relief when she realizes it is Greg. He is severely injured, but alive. He asks her what happened to and as she goes to explain, she is horrified when she sees that Ash’s body is gone and she realizes her nightmare is far from over…
CREDITS
CAST
STAFF & CREW
Story by Cass Baumer
Directed & Produced by Kenzi Grey
Musical Score by Adrien Cochrane
Casting by Maleek Raheem
Special Thanks to Dax Beckett
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A CTN Studios Production
CAST
| Jennifer Roland | Rayven Hardy |
| Ashton Jericho "The Mime" | Gavin Grimes |
| Firebird Death Girl | Kenzi Grey |
| Alex Levy | Melissa Reeves |
| Julie Saxton | Claire Lisa Daniels |
| Cowardly Firebird Driver | Ryan Callaghan |
| Deuce | Dexter Severin |
| Eric | Johnny Coolbreeze |
| Greg Peters | Adrien Cochrane |
| Billy Munson | Adam Sanders |
| Principal Zack Norris | Eddie Walker |
| Grace Hudson | Delia Darling |
| Shawn Hudson | Dax Beckett |
| Caleb O'Neill | Tim Staggs |
| Johnny Rizotto | Giani Di Luca |
| Officer Mohr | Mason Moore |
| Officer Munson | Ashley Marie Chase |
STAFF & CREW
Story by Cass Baumer
Directed & Produced by Kenzi Grey
Musical Score by Adrien Cochrane
Casting by Maleek Raheem
Special Thanks to Dax Beckett
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A CTN Studios Production
