Revamped Models

(HORROR/DRAMA)

LOGLINE

A naive girl is eager to enter the elite fashion industry only to discover that it is a dark and dangerous world. Surrounded by evil colleagues and the literal boss from hell, she must ask herself if she's willing to sell her soul to get ahead.

SYNOPSIS

In 'Revamped Models', JULIANNA WARWICK and RICHELLE ROCKFORD are taken from their lowly lots in life and transformed into fierce femme fatales by the glamorous and timeless ANGELICA EVE. Under Angelica’s professional guidance, these women use their newly acquired mystical guile's to position themselves at the top of the competitive fashion industry.

In modern day New York City, a spoiled socialite named CHARLY ROSE eagerly enters the fashion empire long entrenched by Julianna, Richelle and their now boss from hell Angelica Eve at ROGUE- the leading fashion and lifestyle magazine. Julianna exposes the industry's dark secrets; vampires exist and they largely influence the fashion industry. Even as Julianna explains to Charly how the horribly thin and deathly pale models live off of a liquid diet of blood and how the industry turns people evil, Charly is skeptical; that is, until Julianna reveals herself to be a vampire. The initial shock wears off quickly, turning to temptation. Charly can't turn down a position that she, and millions of other girls, would kill for so she surrenders herself to the industry's wicked influence.

Charly see's just how evil the industry can make people when she learns that Julianna, who is sick to death of working for an eternity and never being able to get ahead, now plans to curse the ROGUE fall fashion show. Charly throws Julianna under the bus for her own advancement, securing a permanent position with Angelica Eve at ROGUE when she signs her life away in blood. 

When the epic ROGUE fall fashion show commences, Julianna uses black magic to place her curse. Her malice manifests, causing the models to become possessed by their hellish heels. The shoes take on lives of their own, forcing the clueless models to walk and run down the runway erratically and disastrously.

When Richelle realizes that it was Julianna who caused the fashion show fiasco, violence erupts and Julianna ends up ruthlessly cutting Richelle's throat. She soon faces Angelica Eve for what she has done and ends up reduced to nothing but ash!

Angelica Eve addresses the audience, making a strong final statement regarding the disastrous fashion show. She explains that the ROGUE brand will prevail and endure forever, as will she.

     The lights dim and the audience clears out, thinking that the show is over when the underestimated model VIRGINIA appears and uses Julianna's black magic to resurrect both Julianna and Richelle. Before Richelle can even pull herself together though, Julianna stabs her in the back, turning her to dust again. 

          Ready to raise hell in ROGUE, Julianna and Virginia assemble to annihilate Charly Rose and Angelica Eve. As the hellish office lights up in flames, Virginia disposes of Charly Rose by locking her in a small office on fire, the intense heat and flames overwhelming her.

          And finally, Julianna and Angelica Eve engage in a furious face-off, both unleashing their resentful demons onto one another. Julianna's cursed words reveal Angelica Eve to herself and she is driven mad. She charges Julianna who suddenly and mysteriously disappears and reappears from behind, just in time to see Angelica Eve light up in flames before falling out from the smashed high-rise window and turn to ash in mid-air, screaming wildly. 

                   
 Julianna ends up finding her own power and liberation by revamping her identity and career with new, advanced and mysterious skills gained only since her death and rebirth.

In the end, the themes of hellish work and the fashion industry being a dark, painful and cutthroat place are generously explored and emphasized in 'Revamped Models', and will reach full potential by further interpretation through a cinematic realization.

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*Review of 'Revamped Model' screenplay:

Revamped Models definitely has an original, intriguing, and fun idea as it introduces vampires into the youth-obsessed world of today’s modeling industry.  The story has a really unique character in Angelica Eve, the head of Rogue whose empire consists of ageless vampire models and youth-enhancing beauty products.  The idea definitely gives this script a really unique hook.  I also really enjoy the idea of bringing a mortal protagonist into the Rogue family, who is unaware that her new company is ran by vampires.  Another interesting twist in Revamped Models is the unconventional ending, allowing Julianna, who becomes the script’s antagonist, to emerge as the story’s victor, leaving our protagonist to meet a more grisly end than expected.

I love the way Angelica Eve harnesses her female power in recognizing girls with hidden potential. Not only does this work for her actual vampire enhanced techniques, but in personal ways too where they actually become empowered; Angelica Eve may joke about it, but it’s actually what happens with the girls. Although, once we get to know Angelica Eve better, it turns out that she’s not really interested in empowering women, but instead looking for women who are desperate enough for notability that they become intensely loyal to her.

It’s a welcomed surprise that Charly Rose isn’t a stuck up and entitled socialite like you’d stereotypically expect her to be. She’s nervous and so genuinely excited and intimidated by the fashion world she so desperately wants to be apart of. Once she becomes apart of their vampire fashion world, however, she quickly adjusts to the tough nature of the business and becomes ruthless to get to the top.

 

I absolutely love the idea that in a cutthroat fashion industry that there’s more behind the perfect faces and bodies that they all possess. Even though it’s a vampire/horror satire, there’s true heart here (apart from the ones that are ripped out) and that’s definitely appreciated in a story where human nature’s authenticity could easily be brushed aside.

 

I love the twist that both Richelle and Julianna are staked, with Virginia bringing them back to life, followed up by another staking for Richellie. It’s so intriguing that the two characters we identify with the most end up dying and the audience is left wondering what’s next exactly. The culmination with double fights going on in the office works so well. With the witchcraft in play as well, anything could happen so the stakes (no puns intended) are extremely high, as is the tension. In the end, Julianna harnessed power that not even Angelica Eve knew she could logistically possess. Sometimes you have to make deadly decisions to get ahead and for Julianna it’s what has shaped her new lifestyle.

The Spirit of Bourbon Street

(HORROR/COMEDY) 

GHOST X SPRING BREAKERS

LOGLINE

In New Orleans Aurora parties like there is no tomorrow... until she's murdered. As a wandering spirit on Bourbon Street, she keeps the party alive, if not only to avenge her death. 

SYNOPSIS

'The Spirit of Bourbon Street' feels like 'Ghost' (1990) but with a fun twist; keeping with the story of a ghost avenging their own death but focusing on a free-spirited party girl who is just as intent on keeping her party days alive as she is with seeking revenge. 

Living the life in NOLA, Aurora works hard and parties harder with her wild roommates Theo and Vita. One night the vulnerable girls lifestyle catches up with them when their seedy employer taking advantage of them leads to their accidental deaths. 

Instead of waking up the next day with a hangover, Aurora wakes outside of her own body! She watches as her former boss and his lackeys try to hide evidence of her demise and through some ensuing strange interactions with other spirits, she begins to understand that she is no longer of this world. 

Aurora tries in vain to recapture her party days but comes to realize the party may really be over for her.

With the help of a local medium and fellow wandering spirits stuck in perpetual Mardi Gras, a disenchanted Aurora is inspired beyond her vengeance to simply move towards the party in the sky! 

As she crosses over to the other side, Aurora discovers new thrills and pleasures of partying on a whole new level. Timeless themes like life, death and morality are explored through the unique concept of 'The Spirit of Bourbon Street' in unconventional and amusing ways. 

Saccharine All Hallows Eve

(HORROR/COMEDY) 
The Craft meets Hocus Pocus

LOGLINE

Witches of all kinds cross paths on a sweetly mischievous All Hallows Eve adventure of confrontations, exposés and fatal fallouts.

SYNOPSIS

On All Hallows Eve, icy NINA, earthy MAVEN, sensuous VIVICA and spitfire VALLIS are drawn to the home of MINERVA, a bitter spinster woman who uses her religious zealotry to justify poisoning Halloween treats and kidnapping children to teach them gods word on the "devils holiday". 

The four girls come to teach Minerva a thing or two, in the first of several conflicts to come where convictions of justice are tested.  

The enigmatic group of girls confront the witchy mothers of the children they save as well as local college kids whose rambunctious Halloween party at a nearby frat house results in devastation and realization of the girls' innate power.

                                                                 

Dreaded Autumn

(HORROR)

LOGLINE 

Disturbed Autumn and her heedless friends attend an unscrupulous Halloween party at a house believed to be abandoned, only to find that the house is occupied by a twisted murderer with a corrupt agenda and significant ties to Autumn's traumatized past.

SYNOPSIS

Two lovers enjoying a peaceful walk on a country road stumble upon something sinister. Quickly reporting their findings to a police-officer that they are happy to find nearby, they discover that the officer is connected to the strange findings more than expected. The officer is not there investigating or making a report. He is there on his own accord. 

The lovers are then chased down like animals by not the officer himself, but the maniacal prisoner that he is transporting. Manipulating the prisoners that are under his authority, this deranged officer takes abuse of power from simply immoral to horrifyingly criminal. 

We are taught to trust the police with our lives but in ‘Dreaded Autumn’, the officer is revealed to be an unhinged deviant, more criminal than those he arrests.

Enter the core characters; there is AUTUMN, the modest female in the center of it all and her adoring boyfriend STELLAN; her loyal best friend DAISY and her strapping boyfriend GUNNER. Spicing things up, there is fabulous LOGAN along with his spitfire twin sister TALLULAH. Also introduced are a group of cruel girls, LIBBY, FINLEY and POPPY, who take a sick pleasure in embarrassing Autumn.  

That night, the kids attend a Halloween party at a supposedly abandoned house, but not before Autumn reveals her disconcerting past to Stellan. She explains that the reason she is not in the party mood is because on Halloween, when she was a child, she watched her sister ANNA get dragged away by a frightening man whose door they had the misfortune of knocking on. Autumn is still haunted by the dreadful memory. Still, she agrees to attend the Halloween party but little does she know that the party is at the house where her sister was taken!

The party grows from an illicit affair to all-out pandemonium. As if underage drinking and trespassing on private property wasn't bad enough, the kids break into the house and trash it.

At the height of the party’s madness, the homeowner is revealed to be none other than the duplicitous police officer who uses the situation to satisfy his murderous impulse. He sets his deranged prisoner on the intrusive party kids like a vicious guard-dog. With character deaths as ironic as they are savage, 'Dreaded Autumn' takes a candid, succinct, morbidly satisfying and socially relevant approach to the slasher genre. The mean girls get their comeuppance. The gay boy nary seen in slasher movies, who says that "girls get to have all the fun" joins the girls as yet another helpless victim. And Autumn has a climactic confrontation with the callous, dark-hearted officer where past transgressions are brought to light and arguable justice. 
 

Even though Autumn receives closure in regards to her sisters abduction, she feels even more sad, disturbed and emotionally adrift than before because she survives in the end, but with heart-wrenching losses and new dreadful memories from this new autumn night.