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CHRISTMAS STALKER
By Kevin Hager

GENRE: Thriller / Suspense
LOGLINE:

A couple is stalked by an unhinged stalker. 

SYNOPSIS:

CHRISTMAS STALKER

Ethan Cole and Natalie “Nattie” Vega are engaged; however, Nattie’s friend from her office Paul Larson has been something of a love-rival to Ethan. Paul believes that Nattie wants to be his girlfriend, because he wants to be her boyfriend. When he tries to make a move on her, she rejects him and decides to keep her distance from him, especially when she thinks Paul stole her phone and it is found and returned by co-worker and childhood friend Pryce Barns. The next day he is found dead, and the cops suspect Ethan as Paul’s sister Gina claimed Paul got a text from Nattie that she was leaving Ethan for him and told him where to meet her. Nattie denies this and claims that Paul was coming on to her. With no evidence to support it, the police release Ethan, but due to the suspicions and Gina’s investigations, believing Ethan is guilty and Nattie is in danger, Ethan and Nattie decide to move.

At their new home, Ethan and Nattie prepare for Christmas and Nattie is surprised by Pryce’s arrival having moved to the neighborhood. Nattie admits that Pryce had a crush on her but moved on. Soon Pryce reveals he is there to help them against Gina who has trailed them there. Obsessed with proving that Ethan killed Paul and that Nattie is in danger, over time Ethan and Nattie try to keep Gina at a distance while getting threats that they dismiss but soon report to the police and they try to file a restraining order and get one. However, Gina’s family also suspecting Ethan killed Paul protects her from the restraining order and reveals information that divides the neighborhood. It is revealed that Pryce is stalking Nattie and is obsessed with her. Pryce see’s Ethan with another woman named Emma Thomas and assumes he is having an affair and learns Emma is married. Slipping photos to Gina and Emma’s husband, Matt and then to Nattie who calls the police and Matt returns and tries to harm Ethan but defends himself from Matt but is injured. Matt is arrested, and Nattie reveals Emma is her roommate from collage and is going through a harsh divorce with Matt and that she and Ethan agreed to help her.

Ethan is forced to remain at home from the injury and Nattie goes to a party with Pryce who makes a toast to Christmas and declares his love for her, but Nattie leaves embarrassed and turns him down humiliating him.

Meanwhile Pryce’s sister Wren arrives at Ethan, Nattie, and Pryce’s old neighborhood and finds out about Paul’s death, and that he had a romantic interest in Nattie whom she knew about Pryce’s crush and had told her they were an item but did not tell her about Ethan. Informing the police who call the officers of Ethan and Nattie’s new home, meanwhile Nattie’s car is rigged by Pryce and she ends up at Pryce’s family cabin, and though she is willing to forgive him due to how he helped her and Ethan, though he is unaware that she texted Ethan to let him know and he heads out to her. Meanwhile Nattie finds Pryce’s shrine to her and with other pictures realizes that Pryce has been stalking her.

Keeping her phone on as she talks to Pryce and Ethan sends it to the cops, she learns that Pryce killed Paul to frame Ethan, stole her phone and sent Paul a phony message and killed Paul to frame Ethan and then thought Ethan and Nattie would break up and he could claim Nattie, outsmarting him Nattie stabs him and she escapes to Ethan and the cops who arrest Pryce and expose the truth to Paul and Gina’s family who apologize to Ethan, everyone celebrates Christmas.

The film ends with Ethan and Nattie now married with a child celebrating Christmas.

Marcos Fizzotti

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