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06-01-2007, 06:25 AM
LOGLINE:
A former Nazi youth member receives an appraisal of his missing and assumed to be dead partner’s property after their bayside tavern full of exotic artifacts is destroyed in a storm. While the skeptical insurance agent works to uncover the mystery, the old man recounts fantastic tales of horror of their journey after the war that may include clues to his partner’s disappearance.
SYNOPSIS:
What determines the true value of our life on earth? Well if you ask bay-side tavern keeper and ex-Hitler youth member Herman Glass (a.k.a. "Fizzy"), he'd say it depends on what we've survived and who we've become in the process. That's not necessarily true to public adjustor Phander Billings, who's shown up in the middle of a rainy night to assess the storm wrecked property along with some of Fizzy's belongings that have also been damaged. To him, all value can be expressed monetarily. His brother Denny, hired to dive for any lost secrets beneath the spooky eatery, might agree with Fizzy, but according to Phander, he's lucky to be employed so his opinion may not count.
See, Fizzy recently lost his business partner and owner of the establishment to the sea, or so it seems. And his daughter, Fizzy's curious cohort and adopted "niece", stands to collect on his estate. Only, no body has ever been found, and the details of their relationship are mired in as much secrecy as the mysterious, decorative arfifacts that lay scattered about the sea worn floor. If Phander plans to get to the bottom of the partner's disappearance through his shrewd acumen for details and whatever his brother might find in the deep, then Fizzy plans to explain he and his estranged partner's personal history through tales of horror - whether the brothers like it or not.
Luckily for him, one of them does. Denny's a bit fed up with his brother's condescension. So while he waits for the morning light to dive, he enjoys a fascinating recount of Fizzy's boyhood trip from a post WWII Germany to the shores of America. It begins with his family's secret villa and laboratory camp where the inmates, Jews stricken with a lethal gas that renders them murderous zombies, rise up against their captors. Then it moves onto a train ride to a Russian gulag with an unlikely pack of vampires bent on surviving a frigid hell fraught with betrayal and bloodshed. Finally, the survivors make it across the Bering Strait onto an island in the Aleutian chain where the angry spirits of ancient nomadic natives, known as the Outside Men, have their own score to settle.
Fizzy's tales paint a picture of a lonely boy forced to endure monstrous evils and the cruel heart of the man who both helped him survive and tortured his soul. Is Fizzy simply trying to absolve himself in his old age by confessing the lessons of his past, or does he have another, more sinister motive in mind? Only a true man on the outside can know.
Anyone want to read the screenplay?
A former Nazi youth member receives an appraisal of his missing and assumed to be dead partner’s property after their bayside tavern full of exotic artifacts is destroyed in a storm. While the skeptical insurance agent works to uncover the mystery, the old man recounts fantastic tales of horror of their journey after the war that may include clues to his partner’s disappearance.
SYNOPSIS:
What determines the true value of our life on earth? Well if you ask bay-side tavern keeper and ex-Hitler youth member Herman Glass (a.k.a. "Fizzy"), he'd say it depends on what we've survived and who we've become in the process. That's not necessarily true to public adjustor Phander Billings, who's shown up in the middle of a rainy night to assess the storm wrecked property along with some of Fizzy's belongings that have also been damaged. To him, all value can be expressed monetarily. His brother Denny, hired to dive for any lost secrets beneath the spooky eatery, might agree with Fizzy, but according to Phander, he's lucky to be employed so his opinion may not count.
See, Fizzy recently lost his business partner and owner of the establishment to the sea, or so it seems. And his daughter, Fizzy's curious cohort and adopted "niece", stands to collect on his estate. Only, no body has ever been found, and the details of their relationship are mired in as much secrecy as the mysterious, decorative arfifacts that lay scattered about the sea worn floor. If Phander plans to get to the bottom of the partner's disappearance through his shrewd acumen for details and whatever his brother might find in the deep, then Fizzy plans to explain he and his estranged partner's personal history through tales of horror - whether the brothers like it or not.
Luckily for him, one of them does. Denny's a bit fed up with his brother's condescension. So while he waits for the morning light to dive, he enjoys a fascinating recount of Fizzy's boyhood trip from a post WWII Germany to the shores of America. It begins with his family's secret villa and laboratory camp where the inmates, Jews stricken with a lethal gas that renders them murderous zombies, rise up against their captors. Then it moves onto a train ride to a Russian gulag with an unlikely pack of vampires bent on surviving a frigid hell fraught with betrayal and bloodshed. Finally, the survivors make it across the Bering Strait onto an island in the Aleutian chain where the angry spirits of ancient nomadic natives, known as the Outside Men, have their own score to settle.
Fizzy's tales paint a picture of a lonely boy forced to endure monstrous evils and the cruel heart of the man who both helped him survive and tortured his soul. Is Fizzy simply trying to absolve himself in his old age by confessing the lessons of his past, or does he have another, more sinister motive in mind? Only a true man on the outside can know.
Anyone want to read the screenplay?