After a werewolf attack by his estranged father, a reclusive teen flees federal agents, racing to control the ancient curse before the full moon triggers another massacre.

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PIECES OF SILVER

Genre: Supernatural Horror / Coming-of-Age Thriller

Format: Feature Screenplay | 114 pages

In early 1930s Romania, a desperate Romani couple performs a forbidden ritual—offering silver and soul to an ancient demon in exchange for a child. From that pact is born Eli Maliovic, a boy conjured through sacrifice, not love. Bound to a spiritual debt sealed before his first breath, Eli grows up under a shadow he can never escape.

By 1945, Eli is fleeing war-torn Europe, a child of myth and massacre. Decades later, he resurfaces in California under a new name: John Silver.

In 1985, Billy Silver, seventeen, isolated, artistic, and bullied, has no idea of his cursed bloodline. His mother, Eve, refuses to speak of his father. His life in a Southern California suburb is defined by detachment—until one night he is attacked in the woods by a creature that should not exist.

Billy survives. But he begins to change. His wounds heal overnight. His senses sharpen. His reflection becomes foreign. And the killings begin.

The local police are baffled—except for Detective Falorhan, who recognizes the signs: the cycle of the full moon, the ritualistic savagery. His FBI consultant Edwards, scoffs—until the pattern becomes undeniable. Meanwhile, on the periphery, a new force arrives: Dr. Ian Davenport, a reclusive folklorist whose fiancée was torn apart decades earlier by a creature just like the one now terrorizing this community. Davenport has studied the curse’s lineage. He knows the name Eli Maliovic. And he knows what Billy is becoming.

When Billy discovers the truth—that the beast who bit him is his father, John Silver—everything fractures. John reveals his origins: he was not simply born, he was summoned. The silver used in his creation was both a holy metal and a binding agent—the same metal that bought Judas’s betrayal, the same that damns werewolves in legend. John died once, but returned—not by miracle, but by contract. He believes the curse is strength, and the only way to endure a cruel world is to pass that strength to his son.

But Billy wasn’t born into this fate. He was bitten into it.

As the next full moon nears, Billy’s transformations grow violent and harder to control. In a horrifying moment of bloodlust at Las Palmeras, a teen nightclub, he loses himself—and kills. The curse is now fully active.

In the wake of the massacre, Greg—Billy’s long-time rival and nemesis, both socially and in love for Marie—aligns himself with Davenport. For Greg, the alliance is not personal—it’s righteous. To him, Billy is a threat that must be erased. He isn’t hunting a rival; he’s helping to cull the evil infecting their town.

As the noose tightens, Billy finds himself hunted, misunderstood, and increasingly alone. But just when it seems he may be lost, he resists—refusing to kill Greg in a moment of trembling agency.

It’s not enough.

Marie, the one person who truly saw the boy inside the beast, is executed by Davenport, who sees her as a liability. Her death shatters Billy.

Fleeing with nothing but the fading hope that belief might still free him, Billy boards a small plane, echoing his father's promise: “You can choose your fate.”

But when the full moon rises mid-flight, truth takes its final form.

There was never a choice.

Pieces of Silver is a brutal, elegant supernatural horror film about spiritual debt, the illusion of free will, and the tragedy of being loved by someone who believes that damnation is destiny. It blends the visceral dread of The Fly with the folkloric weight of The Exorcist, the aching realism of Let the Right One In, and the mythic inversion of biblical resurrection and betrayal.

At its core is a boy not born cursed, but drawn into a blood pact he never agreed to, navigating the monstrous legacies of fatherhood, faith, and the silver that seals them all.

PIECES OF SILVER