FEE SIMPLE – Supernatural Psychological Thriller

Fee Simple – Supernatural Psychological Thriller
Anna Maria Elisa Manalo
267-884-3290 * Scriptmama@gmail.com

Logline: An insecure young woman finds strength when the spirit of her cop husband saves her from a serial killer whom he chokes, skewers and burns with bleach – the very M.O. the killer always uses.

Synopsis: KATIE HOLLANDER, a young petite brunette in her 20’s becomes a real estate agent a year after the shooting death of her husband EDWIN, a policeman. Katie has learned to deal with firearms and to keep close to her only remaining relative, her mother, LOUISE.

Lonely and unsure of herself, Katie starts to date. On her way home from showing a house, she meets WES GREEN at a neighborhood 7Eleven. Wes is wanted in another state for several gruesome murders that have the mark of bleach poured on the dead body. Having sold most of her electronics to make ends meet as a new widow, Katie does not realize Wes is all over the television news when he poses as a potential buyer. Attracted, Wes stalks her, but observes in anger that Katie is dating Edwin’s best friend and fellow realtor, JIM. Eager to begin a new life, Katie invites Jim to her house against Louise’s wishes who felt her daughter needed more time to mourn.

Tell-tale signs of Edwin’s presence in the house make itself known as Katie sees his cologne bottle appear in her bathroom, the scent unmistakable. Edwin begins to haunt the house, showing himself at the front door as his footsteps bend the hardwood floors upstairs. His visits intensify Katie’s loneliness and as she reaches for Jim, she discovers his own insecurity and neediness. Stronger now, she rejects him at her mother’s advice. One night, Jim visits. Feeling rejected despite his constant overtures of affection, he pursues her through the house and attempts to kill her, confessing to her horror that he was Edwin’s murderer. Katie dashes out of the house and encounters Wes. Wes kills Jim with a barbecue fork, embedding it on his back as he pours bleach on the wound.

Grateful for Wes saving her life, Katie invites him only to find that Wes was attracted to her as well. Now having gained a measure of confidence and feeling more sure of what she wanted in a relationship, Katie rebuffs Wes’ advances. Thwarted and enraged by the rejection, Wes enters Katie’s backyard one evening and stabs her mother Louise to death. After Louise buys her daughter a TV set and Katie sees Wes is wanted for several murders, Wes decides to kill Louise.

One night, as Katie prepares for bed, Wes breaks into the house after killing the policeman assigned to watch Katie. In a harrowing confrontation, Katie fights for her life as she dashes out onto the roof of the house. As Wes attempts to grab her feet, gunfire rings out and Wes, taking cover, descends back into the bathroom. He reenters the house and is inexplicably skewered by a barbecue fork. As he attempts to remove it, something chokes him. As he wrestles with an unseen foe, his terror mounts and he jumps out of a window where he hits his head on a rock. As he turns, he sees a boulder descend on his head, breaking it open. He dies on the grass and the last image he sees is Edwin leaning over him, pouring bleach on his head.

The front door opens. Outside, an exhausted and emotionally depleted Katie looks down to find a sole tea rose her husband Edwin used to give her. As she picks it up, she smells his cologne waft in the open breeze and whispers with confidence that love survives after death.

THE TULPA EFFECT – Supernatural Horror Thriller

The Tulpa Effect – Horror Thriller
By Anna Maria Elisa Manalo
267-884-3290 * ScriptMama@gmail.com

Logline: An Argentinean priest must stop a woman and her evil thought creation, a “thoughtform” from killing members of her family.

Synopsis: FATHER LUNA, a 31-year-old priest unjustly accused of child molestation but acquitted, encounters a writer who is plagued by a goat-like specter the man believes he created. One night, left alone, the man commits suicide. His death enrages the specter and it embarks on a killing spree which the priest must stop.

Embroiled in a case he feels unprepared to handle, Father Luna visits the man’s widow, SENECA who resists his efforts to protect her and her infant son. The police suspect Father Luna as the man behind the murders as he seems to be the last person seen with each of the victims. At a party at her parents’ estate, Seneca’s baby disappears after Father Luna departs without notice to pick up the archdiocese’s exorcist, FATHER PINOCHET.

As Pinochet attempts a traditional exorcism on the writer’s house, Father Luna finds allies in Seneca’s two younger brothers. Receptive to his efforts, they introduce Luna to a Buddhist monk, LAMA TSUMPA who believes the family is haunted by a “Tulpa” – a specter created by the power of the mind. The Lama believes Seneca and Javier’s union had unwittingly conjured the thoughtform which is avenging them against the adults who molested them in childhood.

As the search for the missing infant continues, Father Luna’s dog leads the police to an abandoned shack where they find the infant and meet the winged goat-faced specter. In a terrifying confrontation, the inspector mistakes the attacking specter for the dog and shoots it. He arrests Father Luna. Back at the estate, Seneca’s ailing mother reveals to her that it was Seneca’s father, PAULO who had raped Seneca as a child – and still lives with them. Enraged, betrayed and filled with guilt over the deaths, Seneca sketches with abandon, unwittingly summoning the specter once again.

Seneca’s brother bails out Father Luna who joins forces with the monk to defeat the specter. That night at the family estate, the specter enters the house, bent on destroying Seneca’s childhood tormentor. Under the guidance of the gentle Lama, Seneca sketches the face of her father. Now identified, the specter pursues Paulo who takes off in his car. As the car falls into a creek behind the writer’s house, the specter enters Paulo’s body and the car explodes. Vindicated, cleared of charges and his credibility restored, Father Luna bows with Seneca, Father Pinochet and the police inspector to pray for the victims of the “Tulpa”.

Tulpas - The latest thinking about thought forms from Stanford

Reblogged from The Uncertaintist:

Anthropologist Tanya Marie Luhrmann gave a  preview of soon-to-appear psychological research in an interview with Jill Wolfson, which is featured in the current issue of Stanford University’s alumni magazine,

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=54818

Based on her guarded description, Professor Lurhmann’s experimental work contributes to a venerable series of investigations into what may be a  shared basis for vivid religious, paranormal and psychological depth experiences.

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UNCHARTED DARKNESS – Science Fiction Action Adventure Horror Thriller

Uncharted Darkness – Science Fiction Horror Action Adventure Thriller
Anna Maria Elisa Manalo
267-884-3290 * ScriptMama@gmail.com

Logline: A young mapmaker on an uncharted island, discovering aliens who microwave humans with earth crystals, must escape and warn the world… if he can first escape a beautiful woman who condones their torture.

Synopsis: JEREMY MCALLISTER moves to Charter Island to map out the undeveloped island for a real estate developer. Excited to see his only daughter AUDREY visit and enjoy the modest home he built on the bluff, Jeremy stocks it from the local grocery, a ramshackle house run by a middle-aged hippie, ARTIE BUDD.

Jeremy’s idyllic hideaway and promise of a great career are disrupted when he inexplicably faints while surveying the island’s jungle at midday and awakens to find it is 9:30 pm. He discovers he has a bleeding nose and a melted camera. He meets two self-styled cops: beautiful NASREEN, an Iranian expat and Police Chief WAYLON BLOCK, a former marine. She escorts him to the local clinic where he meets the clinic’s only doctor. Block explains away Jeremy’s fainting and bleeding nose as due to a malfunctioning cell phone tower, but the doctor intimates the island is haunted by a black rectangular object in the sky (A UFO) that burns its victims.

Stories from the local bar about missing people, a cave with bloodless dead goats and a UFO which pursues him one night, compel Jeremy to escape. He collects evidence to make his case believable using the doctor’s files and photos of the burned locals. He also enlists the help of Nasreen, Artie the grocer and the men from the bar. As they search for the missing, Jeremy witnesses gossamer aliens in an underwater cavern collecting crystals. Concerned for the safety of his daughter, he cancels Audrey’s visit. His escape is complicated by a broken bridge destroyed by the UFO, a disabled cell tower which made communication with the outside world almost impossible, an approaching hurricane and Chief Block’s suspicious behavior.

As Jeremy attempts to stage a helicopter rescue with a pilot from his developer in Miami through email, he finds Artie dead from an implant in his skull. He is appalled to discover Dorothy did not get his message and unexpectedly arrives with their daughter in a chartered boat. Minutes after they disembark, the UFO sets the boat and its crew on fire. To his chagrin, Jeremy discovers Nasreen is in collusion with the aliens in exchange for healing her daughter’s leg, injured in Iraq.

Jeremy and his family must make it to the broken bridge by daybreak to rendezvous with the helicopter. However, as he and Chief Block, now allies, pack the jeep, the UFO appears during the eye of the hurricane. It fries Dorothy and Block to a crisp. Audrey runs from the scene and disappears.

Pursued through the jungle by the UFO, Jeremy grieves for his lost daughter as he makes for the rendezvous point without her. Under the bridge, he is overjoyed to discover Audrey had escaped unscathed by hiding under Block’s car. As the downpour gains from the hurricane, they leave the safety of the underpass and climb a metal basket up to the helicopter.

Safely back in Miami, Jeremy receives a mysterious visit from Nasreen who tells him the aliens’ agenda of finding and testing a healing crystal to bring back to their devastated planet. In a final farewell, she departs, entering the UFO which zips to the infinite black sky. As Jeremy holds Audrey’s hand and watches, he finally realizes that all beings had one aim: to protect and heal their own children.

UNDER TANGO ROAD – Supernatural Psychological Thriller

Under Tango Road – Supernatural Psychological Thriller
by Anna Maria Elisa Manalo
267-884-3290 * ScriptMama@gmail.com

Logline: A young Spanish matador moves to Mexico to overcome his guilt about accidentally killing his daughter – only to find, when he attempts to escape from authorities, that he has been dead all along.

Synopsis: JOSE BANA, 31 years old, was a rising star of the Seville bullring. Prematurely retired due to a bullfighting injury, he moves to Mexico to recover, where he meets up with an old classmate and fellow bullfighter, MARCO. Jose finds it strange that Marco’s recently deceased wife shares the same first name as his own deceased wife – ELENA. One night, Jose sees her ghost standing by his window.

Jose meets Marco’s friends and falls in love with the town restaurant’s maitre d’, SABINA. Soon however, his idyllic life is shattered by nightmares of his tragic past and further visions of Elena. He wonders if she is a ghost or is alive and has followed him to seek justice against him for a horrible crime he committed. His injury flares in response to his anxieties which in turn fuel more nightmares. As his nightmares escalate, he finds Marco lying in a casket one day when he peeks inside a church window – and encounters a faceless monk.

Fear of apprehension and a dawning awareness of guilt intensify. Bizarre incidents with the locals who die and miraculously recover, his nightmares, sightings of Elena, the monk and the strange silence he receives from his friends cause Jose’s health and sanity to unravel. As he plans to flee back to Spain, his passport disappears, stolen by a thief. Jose confronts the thief and is injured in a scuffle, only to end up in a hospital.

When Jose is fearful of returning to his own apartment, Marco takes him in. To Jose’s horror he discovers Elena’s clothes in Marco’s armoire. Jose concludes Marco is “the other man” he suspected Elena was seeing in Seville. A flashback takes us to Seville where in a jealous rage, Jose lashes out at his wife and accidentally pushes his four-year-old daughter over a balcony, killing her.

Fear, guilt, confusion, entrapment and anger overtake the formerly confident man as he comes face to face with his past. When he awakens, he finds Elena’s rain-soaked sandals at his doorstep. Now convinced she is there, he attempts to escape to the airport in Marco’s car. En route, the car plummets into a ravine. Jose awakens to find his friends around him. Eager to reveal the truth, they escort him to the church on Tango Road. In a crypt room underneath, they show their graves: they are all dead. Jose had died from his injuries 20 years ago. His friends had joined him in the afterlife in the hope of assisting him in his redemption.

ANOMALY – Science Fiction Horror Thriller

Anomaly – Science Fiction Horror Thriller
by Anna Maria Elisa Manalo
267-884-3290 * ScriptMama@gmail.com

Logline: A sixteen-year-old Latino boy must save his pregnant foster sister from alien experimentation when he discovers mutations on their farm only he can see.

Synopsis: Adopted by HAL and CHARISSE, a couple in their late 40’s and safely away from his violent father, JOSH ESPIRITO finds himself surrounded by acres of farmland. There, he meets a socially awkward teen, EDDIE, the son of a butcher. Josh finds a wooded area where trees are burnt halfway up and a cougar with the head of an insect. He is surprised to find only he can see this creature, until one night the family awakens to find their prized pregnant heifers dead, mutilated but bloodless and contaminated by radiation.

Faced with a predator, Josh’s foster parents send their daughter, the flirtatious CELINE to a friend’s cabin in Connecticut across the border. Josh theorizes from a TV show he had seen that the farm was situated within a UFO hotspot, but Hal thinks his new foster child’s sightings are due to his traumatized mind. To help Josh, Eddie introduces him to two UFO investigators. Soon after, Josh is visited by men in grey who warn him not to intervene in their “mission”. Hal suspects Josh is a chronic liar and threatens to send him back to the orphanage.

Eager to convince his foster father his worth so he can remain with the family, Josh attempts to steal one of the mutilated cows from the veterinarian’s morgue with Eddie’s help. The vet catches them. Dying from radiation exposure from the cows, the vet confesses the aliens’ genetic experimentations on any pregnant mammal within the UFO hotspot. Josh had previously seen Celine’s positive pregnancy strip in her bedroom. Horrified and afraid she may be abducted for her fetus, he enlists the grocer next door to take him to the cabin to make sure she’s safe. Meanwhile, Eddie attempts to locate a triple-paneled object buried somewhere on the farm: a key to opening a dimensional portal through which the aliens enter.

Josh attempts to rescue Celine at the cabin, but a cigar-shaped UFO sends out a stream of radiation and microwaves the family friend and the grocer. A pink mist abducts Celine. She awakens to find herself in a strange room where she discovers her fetus miraculously born full-term with a larger than normal head. With her father still away selling the condo, Charisse rushes to find Josh alone with a stricken grocer’s wife, two dead bodies and Celine gone. The grocer’s widow recounts the incredible events to the police.

Supported by the widow’s account, Josh enlists the scientist featured in the TV show. He directs them to the farm’s shed where Eddie found the triple-paneled object. There, the man in gray reappears through a spiraling funnel in the sky. The alien admonishes them to leave the farm, explaining that the soil and water are polluting the animals despite their efforts to repair the ecology through genetic manipulation. The family frees the remaining livestock and dash out of the property. Hal returns in time to witness for himself the portal in the sky with the alien ascending through it and returning Celine with her mutated newborn.

Hal finally realizes Josh was telling the truth and had saved the family from a polluted farm. Josh’s credibility is restored and he finally finds acceptance and love with a family he so sorely craved. They reach for each other in a family hug and look down at Celine’s mutant baby, a permanent legacy to an encounter they will never forget.

The Tulpa Effect – TRAILER

The Tulpa Effect – TRAILER.

Cinema begins with a screenplay…

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On The Slate:

Screenplays on the Slate:

Alien Mountain - Noah’s Ark piloted by an extraterrestrial engine.  Sci Fi Action Adventure.

Fee Simple - a young woman learns marital fidelity when she is saved by the ghost of her policeman husband from a serial killer.  Supernatural Psychological Thriller.

A Different Kind of Death - A young coed learns justice from a soldier’s restless spirit.  Horror.

Another Life - a middle-aged woman meets her twin at other side of the world and discovers herself. Supernatural Drama.

Marianas - reality changes for a group of Pacific Islanders when a group of scientists unravel the truth behind the disappearance of several fishing boats and a cruise ship 50 miles from their coastline.

Welcome to Anna Maria Elisa’s Webpage

This site is about my screenplays for sale/option and scripts in progress. My stories are based on true events from investigations as a past UFO Field Investigator and currently as an independent Paranormal Researcher.

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If a screenplay interests you, please feel free to contact me at ScriptMama@Gmail.com for a copy of the script. I can also be reached by leaving a message at 267-884-3290. During the academic year, I will return your call after business hours, Eastern time.

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Anna Maria Elisa Manalo

To write is to dream.  To write and inspire an audience  is to LIVE a dream.