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THE CELL DOORS SCREAM
By Zane Hampton

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE:

A prison story unfolds as two Officers and two Prisoners discover destiny in horror that exposes a fatal decision which may or may not open a door to unspeakable evil.

SYNOPSIS:

In a prison unlike any other four different characters are more unique than anyone else, and they can't explain why. A Rookie Corrections Officer struggles with his "culture shock" when seeing the horrific events that happen inside a Maximum Security Facility, while a Veteran Officer purposfully insults and abuses offenders at her whim. Deeper into the facility a violent offender named Suarez battles anyone in reach of his segragation cell, and a new inmate adapts to life on the minimum security side of the facility. The one thing that connects them all besides location, is the strange things happening around and too them. Something is wrong with the prison.

As things worsen the first to truly feel the attack of a strange spirit or entity is Suarez, who is visited in the night by a version of himself that slowly consumes him. Miles, the new inmate, witnesses atrocsities and watches the madness of the other inmates that seems to spread like a sickness. Officer Jones, the rookie, starts to be abused by his work schedule while forced to fill into the night shifts, and is convincing himself he's seeing things as quickly disappearing monsters taunt him. Then Veteran Officer Conrad starts to find herself changing, she focuses more and more on her past sins and her terrible decisions that the walls whisper to her. The madness rises swiftly though pulses louder as Officer Jones witness large tentacles squeezing the exterior walls, is he the only one that sees this?

Decisions are called into the heads of all four characters, the rising horrors and realizations have changed them all but for some reason no one can escape even if they hold the keys. Its then revealed after a full scale riot breaks out and the slaughtering of the convicted and innocent (maybe not so innocent) officers commences, that we truly see the characters and who is really evil or good! Miles and Jones find themselves spiritually connected to the repetition of a spirtual battle which commences every few years. It is a supernatual battle of good and evil that takes place on a cursed ground holding the gates of hell from opening upon the earth. Conrad and Suarez rest in the side of evil, Conrad gives herself to hell and opens the gate allowing the slaughter, and Suarez leads the violence with a toothy grin. As the spirits collide the world is saved once again, and everything somehow appears back to "normal" as the spirits remember but the people do not. This is apparent, as the cycle continues with the next conduits approaching years later.

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