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HDC BATTLE ROYALE III ROUND OF 3 - THE VERDICTS


The final entry, came from Finalist Roshiq.

Originally Posted by roshiq

The Unusual & Uncanny

A horror anthology of four frightening stories/parts directed by 4 directors:

Samantha's Grave:
Alex baker just came to the cemetery to pay his last visit & tribute to his dead wife samantha. She died last month after suffering a severe fever with a rare skin disease for last 1 & half year. Alex though bit drunk but (standing in front of samantha's grave) started nicely "dear sam, you'll be missed in coming days...." but gradually his tone and mode begin to change & started to curse her..."you 1 god damn terrible ugly bitch, i hope you're now rotting in hell. Thank god he took you away before i was going to kill you...".
The good for nothing job & childless alex actually was happy & felt very lucky when samantha died. He then able to acquire all the property that she inherited from her parents as well as her savings in the bank. Alex already sold them, took the money & moving to las vegas to have all the joy & fun in the world that he was waiting for a long time.
After a while he left the cemetery & started to drive away from the town in his old volkswagen. After driving nearly 10 to 15 miles the horror begins when he started to seeing samantha's grave with the epitaph beside or even in the middle of the road. It was like following him. He thought he was fully drunk & hallucinating all of these. He then stopped in a highway motel to spend the night. When he lied down in the bed, he just instantly fall into sleep. In the middle of the night he woke up for a moment with a bad smell while seeing samantha's grave just in front of the room's door inside.
"wtf!?! Why they allow her to come into my room?" alex was mumbling & fall into sleep again. But next time when he wake...he didn't wake in the room; he wake up inside samantha's grave while she has so much to say & give to him now under a creepy makeover!
Director: Mitchell lichtenstein (teeth)
cast: Dylan baker (alex baker), jordan ladd (samantha)


The Mute Girl:
After deciding to live together, sally moved into paul's new rented apartment in the downtown. At the very first night she waked in the middle of the night as she heard a little girl mumbling something very near somewhere. Next morning she took the matter very lightly but told paul about that & asked whether the building's premise has a 'haunting' history. Paul was laughing & assured her that there's no such thing with this calm & quite place. While they were going out for the office sally saw a very cute little asian girl with her mother in the elevator. When she asked her name then none of them replied but left the lift. Later paul told sally that the woman & her daughter moved into their upper floor just few months back, that girl's name is simi & she can't speak and nobody knows about her father as the rarely spoken mother don't like to talk about him for some unknown reason.
After few days sally first saw that mute girl in her dream. The dream was very ordinary, she was in the office arguing with paul for a very silly matter. The extraordinary part comes when suddenly she saw that little asian girl standing in a corner of the room. Paul didn't notice her while simi came towards sally & told her that the old lady who alone in their next door flat have been died for 3 but nobody knows. And that will eventually discover later by the apartment manager.
In this way, simi started to showing herself in sally's dream infrequently & tells her all about the sad & disturbing things happening in different flats of the building. She can't tell her mum who was highly insomniac. But sally wasn't convince enough whether to believe her or not as in reality she actually can't say a single word or make a sound from her mouth. She kept the strange matter with herself. Simi later even begin to tell her in dreams about things going to happen in near future. Like the car accident causes the death of the couple living in top floor, sally's pregnancy...paul's hidden-negative reaction about it and finally his conspiracy to killing the unborn baby! When helplessly sally asks for help to simi, then she agrees to help her in one condition: She will accept all the consequences whatever happens next which won't heart at least sally for sure. Sally accepts the deal and next day when paul tried to drugged her with a high dose medicine that's enough to cause the damage then simi begins to scream from her apartment. The terrible sound of the scream breaks down all the glasses of the buildings and almost all the people inside the apartment loses their hearings and their ears starts to bleed heavily. And sally & her baby lives but simi & her mother leaves the building & disappears forever.
Director: Paul solet (grace)
cast: Sally (angela bettis) , paul (aj bowen)


The Illegal Immigrant:
In an alternate reality somewhere in europe or america a state government legalized vampirism for the very first time in history.
Against the high protests from different national & international groups of many forms, the ruling govt. Leader said in a press note: "it's now time to think about whether to deny & destroy them as an undead night creature or to welcome & place them in our community under some strictly mutual interests that can help us to prosper & develop economically & defensively...."
the main aspect was that the state can use them in various day to day productive ways in night shift for in the betterment of their effectiveness as a nation or country. But there are some strict laws that everyone need to follow: Vampires not allowed to feed on any local people, tourists and legal immigrants. In the same way humans or any legal foreigners or locals will be punished if they tries to hunt any vampires. Now the question rise...then how will the vampires able to survive? A legal division of health care is in charge of that matter who will provide their very necessary food/blood supply from the imprisoned convicted human criminals with death sentence and from the alarming rate of illegal immigrants who also treated as criminal.
Now the story begins when an high official human govt. Servant mr. Roman nicolai started to suspect his colleague john ahmed may be engaged in providing unlawful protections to some illegal immigrants. Roman secretly assigns norton dark...a young punk vampire who's been fugitive for months after beating & killing several humans. Roman assured norman that if he can get some valid info by invading john's mansion at night while he will be out for an office party, then he'll manage to take off all the charges against him.
At the same time, john was actually providing shelter for a fellow named mikhael who somehow came from the same country where john was born. Unfortunately mikhael found himself as an illegal immigrant but assured by john that he'll help him to get out from this state & send him somewhere where he won't at least get killed by the authorities who fed vampires.
So when norton breaks down into john's big mansion then a cat & mouse game starts between him & mikhael which ended in the green house located in the middle of the garden behind the mansion and norton met with mikhael's another or hidden side...werewolf!
The story will be ended with an indication that a group of illegal immigrants actually planned to fight back with the vampires & vampire feasted authority with the help of an army of werewolves who 'unintentionally' helped some of them to become the members of their clan.
Director:michael dougherty (trick r' treat)
cast: Roman (henry czerny), mikhael (naveen andrews), norton (shea whigham) , john (tony todd).

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