The Projectionist
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After a freak accident, a man develops a mysterious power which gains the attraction of dark forces who wish to take it from him.
An Original Screenplay
David E. Gates
David E. Gates has published several books and short-stories. His first book, Access Denied, is a true story. A deeply personal and heart-wrenching account of becoming a father and having to fight the mother and Family Courts to see his daughter and also battles against the incompetence and lies of the Child Support Agency who seem hell-bent on ruining him, emotionally and financially.. It has garnered 100% positive reviews. The Roots of Evil, his first horror novel, is a graphic, violent, intense and gore-laden horror story. His second fictional novel, The Wretched, is an original horror story set in and around Portsmouth. David has made a documentary film about the battlefield memorials in Ypres, Belgium called Ypres – The Battlefield Tours and previously wrote film reviews for Starburst and Samhain magazines and interviewed the likes of Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert and many others. He has also written many short stories and poems, a full-length motion picture screenplay, the screenplay to a short film and in his spare time hosts a rock radio show. Also by David E. Gates: Access Denied The Roots of Evil The Wretched Omonolidee First Words Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman The Projectionist A Planned Demise The Ghost of Clothes Fixing the Faker The Christmas Carol Omonolidee - Morgado, Portugal, 2018. Two Sides of Vegas
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The Projectionist - David E. Gates
The Projectionist
Copyright © 2019, David E. Gates
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Also available by David E. Gates
Books
Access Denied
The Roots of Evil
Omonolidee
First Words
The Wretched
Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman
Short Stories
The Ghost of Clothes
The Christmas Carol
A Planned Demise
Omonolidee – Two Sides of Vegas
Omonolidee – Morgado, Portugal, 2018
Fixing the Faker
End Request
Films
Ypres – The Battlefields Tour
Coming Soon
The Deeper Roots of Evil
The Climbing Frame
Dedication
For the Movie Lovers
THE PROJECTIONIST
Written by
David E. Gates
FADE IN:
EXT. Desert - night
The moon casts deep shadows across a range of high sand dunes, which seem to move eerily as the grains of the desert are blown softly across the surface by a strong breeze.
Two men, dressed in WHITE Arab-style robes come over the top of one of the dunes. They gesture wildly at one another. The SOUND OF THE WIND drowns out what they are saying.
As they come closer, we see they are ARABS. They stop, briefly, listening towards the direction they have come from, then continue. As they cross one of the dunes, one of them produces something from inside his robe. It’s small enough to be held in one hand and the metal and glass of it glint in the moonlight as he holds it out in front of him.
The other ARAB makes a grab for it. They struggle.
FIRST ARAB
You are insane. It must be returned.
SECOND ARAB
No. We have waited too long. Our time is now.
FIRST ARAB
The gods will not warrant this. It is not the time.
SECOND ARAB
Raheeb, you worry too much.
RAHEEB
No, Miktar. I respect the gods. It must go back.
SUDDENLY, a LOUD ANIMAL SHRIEK of a CAMEL is heard, and the two men forget their quarrel and run.
The sand is treacherous, and hard-going. MIKTAR falls behind.
RAHEEB
Run! Come on Miktar! Come on!
MIKTAR has stopped. RAHEEB returns to his friend.
MIKTAR
I’m stuck. Fast. The sand has me my friend.
MIKTAR THRUSTS the item previously held aloft into REHEEB’S hands.
MIKTAR
(continuing)
Take the timer. Do with it what you will. I am done for. Go. Now!
The SOUND of the SHRIEK of the CAMEL is LOUDER, CLOSER.
RAHEEB
I shall pray for your soul Miktar. I shall pray for your forgiveness.
MIKTAR
Go! Go NOW! Run Raheeb. Run like the wind!
Raheeb turns, and runs up the dune away from his friend who begins to sink into the sand. As he reaches the top, he turns and sees his friend sink beneath the surface.
The CAMEL, with an ARAB, dressed in BLACK ROBES and sporting a MASK, atop its back, comes over the rise of the dune and GALLOPS hard into its basin.
MASKED ARAB
(shouting)
By the Gods, return what you have stolen.
RAHEEB stands at the top edge of the dune, awaiting his fate at the hands of the MASKED ARAB. But the camel slows, then stops, as the going underfoot becomes like TREACLE. The camel WHINES as if in pain as it is sucked deeper into the sand.
The MASKED ARAB panics. He tries to leap from the camel’s back but his leap is awkward and he falls ungainly face down into the sand. He attempts to push himself up off the surface of the dune. As he does so his mask falls away revealing a HIDEOUS and previously BURNT face.
MASKED ARAB
(shouting, pointing at Raheeb)
Cursed are you. You robbers of graves. You stealers of souls.
With a LOUD SUCKING SOUND, the camel beside the MASKED ARAB is gone. Almost as quickly, the MASKED ARAB is sucked beneath also.
Raheeb kneels at the top of the dune. He is exhausted. He clasps his hands together and looks skyward, in prayer. When finished, he looks at the item in his hands. We see it looks like an ornately decorated EGG TIMER. Raheeb holds it up, so that moonlight streaks through the glass illuminating the contents which look like swirls of sand moving back and forth.
CUT TO:
INT. antique shop - day
TITLE: Present