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PHANTOM MANOR
By Kevin Hager

GENRE: Horror, Fantasy
LOGLINE:

Based on the Phantom Manor ride in Disneyland Paris, and a spin-off of The Haunted Manor films. Including a spin on who the Phantom character is. 

SYNOPSIS:

THE PHANTOM MANOR

Years ago, Henry Ravenswood found gold in the Thunder Mountain of Thunder Mesa and began the Big Thunder Mining Co. Settling down with his wife Martha and their daughter Melanie. Then fully grown Melanie fell in love with a young miner named Jake Evans and they planned to marry, but Henry refused, then the Earthquake and Henry and Martha were killed. Then on the eve of Jake and Melanie’s wedding a mysterious figure called The Phantom appeared and lured Jake up to the attic where he was hanged, to this day Melanie is trapped in the cursed manor waiting to be reunited with her beloved, while tortured by The Phantom, believed to be the spirit of her father Henry Ravenswood taking revenge on her. Present day, a young man Nathen Cambro and his wife Kelly Mendoza-Cambro visit Thunder Mesa when it is learned Nathen may have ancestral ties to the area, and visit the ruins of Ravenswood Manor now called Phantom Manor, dismissive of the legends of the Phantom, Nathen is somehow drawn into the Manor were they encounter the ghosts including the spirit of Melanie but are protected by a ghost in the walls, and find a ghost trapped as a spiritual raven and amnesic. They soon run into the Phantom who refuses to let them leave and arranged their visit, he demands they stay and Kelly but the Raven helps them, they soon believe that the Phantom is Henry Ravenswood, but soon while trapped in a mining pit Kelly finds a small crystal the wall ghost gave them and gives to the Raven, and it is revealed that the Raven Ghost is really Henry Ravenswood trapped, The Phantom is actually Ezekiel Glass a young man from a wealthy family who helped Henry build his fortune, Glass wanted to marry Melanie but she never loved him, and fell in love with Jake. When Henry failed to convince her to love Glass his wife Martha convinced him to let her love Jake, Glass angry learned black magic and invoked dark forces to cause the Earthquake but it backfired on him, and he became the Phantom and turned Henry’s spirit into a spiritual raven and took his memories, the Phantom abducts Kelly revealing that Nathen is a descendant of Jake’s family and vows to take Kelly as revenge for Jake “stealing” Melanie from him.

Nathen and Henry escape and save Kelly from the Phantom, and in the struggle Nathen breaks the Phantom’s pendent which frees the Wall Ghost and he is revealed to be Jake Evans imprisoned by the Phantom and is reunited with Melanie, as a result the curse is now broken and the Phantom is banished into eternal imprisonment while Henry regains his human form and reunites with Martha the spirits are free and Nathen and Kelly return home, and reveal what really happened in the manor.

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