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THE BLACK WIDOWS
By Scott Marcano

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE: “Mean Girls” meets “The Exorcist” – the meanest, wickedest all girl gang in LA meets its match when they accidentally bully a high school honor student to death and her ghost comes back from the grave, looking for revenge, stalking each of them one-by-one; killing each in a style that goes with their gang nickname.

SYNOPSIS:

The frightening tale begins when Nancy Hernandez, a straight "A" honor student, reluctantly snitches on "The Black Widows" a quirky gang of bad girls that runs Felipe H High School. To teach her a lesson, the Black Widows corner Nancy in the girl's locker room and try to scare her, but the prank turns deadly when Nancy falls and cracks her head open – and is accidentally killed. Convinced by their evil leader "Shorty" that they can get away with murder - the Black Widows successfully cover up the crime. A few weeks later, however, weird things start happening at school to each Widow. It starts when students report hearing strange sounds around the locker room: eerie footsteps, moans, and blood pouring out of sinks! Things get worse when, one by one, the Black Widows are stalked and killed by Nancy's ghost - each one snuffed out in a bizarre manner that goes along with their gang nickname. For example, poor little "Ratita" is found eaten by a rat! Pretty "Face" has her entire face ripped off in the woodshop! Similar fates await “Roach” - found dead covered by roaches in her bedroom and “Dulce” whoʼs discovered stuffed into a school candy machine. After a desperate search on the Internet, Shorty finds a website that explains how to “kill” a ghost. Following the websiteʼs instructions, Shorty steals holy water from her church. She gets the remaining widows to help her kidnap Nancy's sweet little sister, Esmerelda, and use her as bait in a trap that will send Nancy's ghost back to the grave. They beat up Esmerelda in the schoolʼs basement to attract Nancyʼs ghost. Once the spirit arrives, they throw holy water on her, which makes her disappear. At first, the Black Widows think theyʼve won, but because Shorty stole the holy water - it isnʼt holy anymore. Nancy ghost returns and defends her little sister, who Shorty wants to make into a slave. In a final, action-packed showdown, Nancyʼs ghost kills the remaining widows, Shorty and Little Chicken. But she spares the last one “Tattletale” to tell the tale as a warning to others. The story ends with Nancyʼs Ghost still haunting the school and protecting weak kids from bullies.

THE BLACK WIDOWS

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