After a struggling bartender is offered the apartment of her dreams, she soon discovers that a former tenant went missing...and she might be next. THE SKELETON KEY meets GET OUT

*2023 ISA Fast Track Winner - Suspense Category

SYNOPSIS:

Title: ApartType: Indie Feature, Female DrivenGenre: Contained Horror/ThrillerBudget: Under $500KFinancing: Partial financing in place

Script Accolades:-Multiple Contest Winner (2023 ISA Fast Track & Nashville Film Festival)

-Top 3% on Coverfly

-Earned placement on The Red List (Thriller Category)

-Excellent Coverage Scores

Tagline: "The dream apartment is her new nightmare."

Synopsis: After moving into her dream apartment in March of 2020, Gloria Garcia, a gritty, struggling bartender, learns that she may have COVID-19. During her mandatory quarantine, Gloria discovers that a former female tenant went missing in her unit five years earlier and was never found. Following a series of disturbing encounters and mysterious messages, Gloria begins researching the missing persons case online, leading her down a dark rabbit hole of alarming incidents that occurred at her building over the last 40 years. Murders, suicides, missing persons and more. After an evasive stalker leads her closer to the truth, Gloria’s life is upended by a sinister totem and the terrifying reality behind the dark history of her building and the depraved people living inside. In a shocking TWIST, the consequences of Gloria’s actions result in a horrific test of survival in the face of unimaginable evil. After a spine-chilling final act that will leave audiences on the edge of their seats, only one question remains...Will Gloria make it out of the apartment alive?

Tone: An engaging thriller packed with a variety of disturbing moments, rising tension, and impending dread, only to ignite in the third act with a hellish, satisfying, and utterly terrifying pay-off that audiences won’t see coming, all while seamlessly blending together adult coming-of-age themes and reflective social commentary.

Coverage Excerpts: "An effectively tense thriller that keeps the reader thoroughly engrossed. The writer has done phenomenal work in terms of set-up and creating tension. Each character has a unique voice and dialogue exchanges in the script are dynamic and engaging. This is one of the best paced scripts I've read in a while. It could easily be snatched up by a production company specialized in genre films."

-WeScreenplay

"Apart deviously utilizes the early onset of COVID-19 to elevate tension during this chaotic period and seamlessly integrate our present day context into a true modern nightmare."

“APART excels at telling a contained, tense, and mysterious story. The screws tighten on the protagonist effectively and the internal logic is sharp. The script is deviously clever about using the coronavirus as a plot device.”

-Coverage INK

Writers Bio:

Hunter Davis is an award winning filmmaker with a variety of contest wins, scripts under option, and projects in development. His high scoring thriller, APART was the 2023 ISA Fast Track Fellowship Suspense Winner & the Winner of the 51st Annual Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Awards. Hunter's action spec, BLACK DUST, won Best Action Screenplay at the 2021 Creative Writing Awards and is one of three different projects from Hunter featured on The Red List. His sci-fi/action feature, The Drome, has been under option with studio producer, Lucas Foster (Ford vs. Ferrari, Law Abiding Citizen, Bad Boys) and is currently being shopped. Most recently, Hunter's terrifying microbudget thriller, Symphony of Silence, is currently in pre-production and slated to begin filming in late 2024. Influenced by the groundbreaking genre films of the 80's & 90's, Hunter specializes in commercially viable projects on a budget with contained settings, elevated suspense, and wildly unpredictable twists.

IMDB Link: imdb.me/hunter-d

Resume available upon request

*The official Apart pitch deck is available upon request by sending an email to speckproductions@gmail.com

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