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.