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DEADLY DUTCH HIGH SERIES — THE ARRIVAL (OPENING SCENE)
By B.A Sins
Bound by friendship and unease, three teens navigate their first year at an isolated high school where authority feels alive, secrets watch back, and every choice tightens the school’s grip on them.
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Deadly Dutch High follows three freshmen entering an isolated island high school governed by unwritten rules, watchful systems, and an authority that feels disturbingly alive. What begins as a normal school year slowly fractures into psychological horror as the school reveals its ability to remember, manipulate, and punish. As friendships strain and buried histories surface, the students must decide whether survival means compliance—or daring to uncover the truth behind the institution itself.
DEADLY DUTCH HIGH SERIES — THE ARRIVAL (OPENING SCENE)
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DEADLY DUTCH HIGH™ — Gothic Mystery / Supernatural Horror
What if your school was watching you back?
Deadly Dutch High™ is a gothic mystery–supernatural horror series centered on three teens arriving at an isolated island academy where rules feel alive, authority behaves like an entity, and the environment itself remembers who you are.
The story opens with a fogbound boat arrival and unfolds into a slow-burn psychological descent—where friendships become survival bonds, secrets have consequences, and nothing attacks openly… until it already owns the space you’re standing in.
Tone & Vibe
• Gothic atmosphere
• Psychological intimacy (deep POV)
• Supernatural rules instead of jump scares
• Anime-inspired character focus
• Slow dread > spectacle horror
Comparable Energy
The Haunting of Hill House × The Black Phone × anime-style character drama
Currently developed as a novel-first IP with screenplay-ready structure, cinematic opening sequences (boat arrival, fog harbor, living campus), and strong adaptation potential for limited series or feature.
I’m connecting with writers, producers, and creatives interested in genre storytelling, elevated horror, and character-driven supernatural worlds.
Happy to share loglines, opening scenes, or discuss adaptation paths.
— B.A. Sins
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This sounds really cool. I never got into Harry Potter, but I'd give this a read!
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Thanks for the stars, Beridze, Oleg, and Michael. I’m truly grateful for the feedback and your replies so far.
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I just looked at the screenplay! Is there a reason you chose not to format it properly?
Hi Michael — appreciate you taking the time to look at it.
The draft you saw is intentionally structured in a prose-leaning cinematic layout. At this stage, I’m prioritizing tone, pacing, and atmospheric continuity from the novel adaptation before locking it into strict industry formatting.
The version currently represents an early structural adaptation of DEADLY DUTCH HIGH SERIES — THE ARRIVAL (Opening Scene), built to preserve the psychological immersion and POV layering that define the narrative system.
Because the series operates under a very deliberate internal structure — deep third-person psychological immersion with the environment functioning almost as a character — I drafted it in a hybrid format first to retain that tonal DNA during the transition.
A fully standardized industry draft (Final Draft/Celtx format pass, tightened action blocks, technical polish) is part of the next development phase once the tonal pass is fully locked.
If you’re open to it, I’d genuinely value your perspective on translating immersive prose into clean screenplay formatting without losing psychological depth. I’m always looking to refine the transition between mediums.
— B.A. Sins
Sure! I'd love to look at it, feel free to send me a link
Michael David,
Thank you for taking the time to review it and for the generous rating you shared in my DM. It truly means a lot, and I appreciate you giving the story your attention.