Yellowstone meets The Conjuring 

-- In order to stop a terrifying haunting, a Detective and a prominent Psychiatrist dig into the secrets of a disturbed young woman's past who fears a vengeful spirit is trying to possess her...

**Studio coverage from Tracking Board highly praising the script is available upon request -- all marks are 9/10 & 9.5/10 -- nothing below a 9.**

SYNOPSIS:

--TOP 10% of all projects on Coverfly

--Top Uploaded Scripts for Mystery & Suspense on The Black List

--Finalist, Stage 32 - Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest

--Semifinalist, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards 5

A young, half-Native American girl washes up on the shore of a lake that borders the Ojibwe Reservation land. Her hands and leg bound, body bruised and beaten. At the local hospital, she wakes from a coma screaming that something is coming for her...

Hot-shot Detective Harry Stansfield (also half-Native American) is pressured by the town and the media to find out what happened to this innocent girl or return her to the reservation to let the Ojibwe handle the case. Stansfield recruits the help of prominent female psychiatrist Dr. Morgan Grimes to tap into this young girl's mind in order to unlock who she is, what happened to her and who is responsible. During Morgan's sessions with the young girl, she appears to only speak in riddles and poems, which makes it difficult to determine her identity. While the doctor and detective search for answers, the young girl is tormented day & night with visions that an ancient creature known as the Wendigo is coming for her...

DR. MORGAN GRIMES (mid 30’s), sharp, shaky confidence, carries a sadness she tries desperately to hide. Morgan's daughter suffered from schizophrenia and tragically took her own life as a teenager. Now Morgan blames herself for not being able to 'save' her only child, so she hopes in helping this new patient, she'll be able to forgive herself for what happened with her daughter.

DETECTIVE HARRY STANSFIELD (40’s) cocky, handsome in that unshaven way, Harry is a man trapped between two worlds. Growing up on the Ojibwe reservation, he didn't fit in. But once he moved from the reservation, he found he didn't fit on American soil either. Struggling to determine who he truly is, this is put to the test when he finds someone just like himself: this young girl who is also half-Native American. As they discover the young girl's past, Harry begins to reconnect to his roots. But as they dig into their history, can he accept the truth of the past in order to save their future?

Coverage from ScreamCraft:

“The malevolent spirit of the Wendigo provides an exciting impetus for the common possession story. The Native American backdrop and history feel like a welcome change from the Catholic eliexorcism version of this story. As with any possession-horror movie, there's a solid degree of conflict in the logline, and the execution doesn't disappoint. The characterization is strong for the characters, with each of them getting solid, relevant backstories. The plotting of this project is nicely loaded with conflict, there's a great sense of escalation already scripted in this project, which helps to keep it engaging.”

Review from The Black List:

“The scenes in the cottage are uniformly excellent, both due to their overall moodiness and the skin-crawling way the writer builds up the scare moments - the reveal that the closed door is the black rectangle Sara keeps sketching is disturbing in a very restrained, almost elegant way. The finale with the bone stakes sends the film out on a fever-pitched high note, a grand set piece that brings body horror and gore into a previously supernatural-only ghost story. Restricting the majority of the film to the psychiatric hospital is both a savvy move from a production standpoint and a clever way to make these outside scenes hit even harder. It would be flat-out wrong to state that there isn't a huge standing audience for this type of material, both at the cinema and on VOD/streaming."