Film Proposal: Down to the Dead End
Logline: A broken family on the run find themselves trapped on a road by a deadly royal-like cult.
Genre: Horror/thriller
TRT: 1hr 30m
Target Audience: Adults age 18 - 51
Feature Synopsis:
“Down to the Dead End” is a Horror/Thriller film that takes place on a singular road over the course of one night. A family traverse the United States on what seems to be a “never ending” roadtrip when they find themselves face to face with a mysterious roadblock. With the family stuck at a standstill in the middle of nowhere, they are confronted by an ominous gang named “The strands” who are on a mission to expand what they believe is a connection between their world and another through sacrifice. What ensues is a night long stand-off of cascading events that forces the family to reinterpret their definition of “home.”
Comparative Films: “Down to the Dead End” can be compared to the following successful films:
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)- Like the iconic 1977 American horror feature, “Down to the Dead End” explores a society with a predisposition to notion of “the perfect home”, with an emphasis on character-driven storytelling and a richly detailed universe.
Evil Dead (1981)- It shares in scale of the horrifying events that find our main characters along with an ominous larger implication of what those events mean.
Alien (1979) - While the film is set along an open road on earth, the story shares an emphasis on claustrophobia and cosmic horror- with the seemingly dull and dark “middle of nowhere” actually fostering a force beyond human comprehension
Estimated Budget:
Pre-Production: $3 Million
Principal Photography: $5 million
Visual Effects: $2 Million
Post-Production: $2 million
Marketing and Distribution: $15 million
Contingency: $20 million
Total Estimated Budget: $47 million
