The Shy Boy: A horror Film

Young women find the beautiful, but painfully shy, Ronald just to die for. They do. Soon enough they get sick of his inability to initiate anything, and put him down for it. Their bad. Ronald suddenly sees them as his cruel mother and…off with their heads! The attractive lady cop on the case gets murdered also, but her twin sister exacts revenge.

Delusion: A Psychological Thriller

The lovely, forty-year old, wealthy Catherine believes she killed her husband, Freddy. Wilhelm, the family shrink, having married Catherine’s mother, and then got her committed, now gaslights Catherine into horrible delusions and nightmares, to gain full control of the estate. Wilhelm’s work is a little too good, for Catherine’s neurosis lifts when she realizes it was her memory of her father’s accidental death that had confused her. Now, it is Wilhelm’s turn to be frightened to death

Growing Love: A Character driven drama

Isbel (without an “a”) meets Danny. Isbel’s father was a batterer. The charming Danny turns out to be a batterer. Danny takes off having used her savings; meant to buy the little flower shop she manages. She meets older Arthur, who saves her, and teaches her the gentle side of love. Danny comes back and through a series of explosive events, Arthur’s love helps to transform Isbel from a state of weak neediness to that of courage and confidence.

Soul Seekers: A Sci-Fi series

In the 24^th century the world has become a caldron of warlord anarchy. A group of officers of the “Co-Op,” formed to try to restore order, encounters a mind-altering experience in a parallel world, which inspires them to believe that answers to restoring humanity’s soul may lie “out there,” somewhere. In a ship called “Spirit,” they head into the unknown, where adventures, that force them to confront their own conflicts, await

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The Shy Boy, a horror film; a modern, middle American setting:

Ronald Tembreaux (Tam-brough) is a beautiful, but painfully shy young man. He’d been cruelly abused by his mother when just a boy, and abandoned by his father. On the surface he is polite and helpful; underneath, a pit of hell.

Young women find his seeming sensitivity, his fresh and handsome looks to die for. They do. After each young woman, in turn, becomes involved with him, she gets tired of his inability to initiate anything, and puts him down for this “irritation.” At this, Ronald’s eyes glaze over, and as he whispers “No…mother, no” he severs her head from her body.

We first meet Ronald, bloodied and sullen, carrying his mother’s head down a country road, pulling a steamer truck behind him. Next, he is clean and presentable working in an insurance office. “Celeste” falls for him, they eventually make love, but she had to initiate everything. She finally gets tired of it, puts him down for it, and loses her head because of it.

Next, “Colleen,” a bold and trashy sort meets the same fate in the back of a dark and almost empty interstate bus. An attractive lady cop, “Annette Cardin” is put on the case. She calls in a consultant, “Walter Love,” a retired cop and an expert in serial killings.

Ronald finds a secluded cabin in the woods where he stashes his trunk, which is now filled with the heads of his victims, pickled in jars. He moves on to another city where he tries to make a new start.

Cardin and Love, on Ronald’s tracks, find the cabin. Love cuts off Cardin’s head and makes it look like Ronald’s MO. You see, Love is Ronald’s father, himself a serial killer, who decides that Cardin is too close to the truth and so has to dispatch her. “Capt. Milo,” who had met Cardin, brings in her twin sister, “Jannette,” to form a plot to flush Ronald out.

Meanwhile Ronald saves a very pretty, rich girl “Emily” from an auto accident In gratitude, and infatuation, Emily invites Ronald and two other couples to “Spook” Island for a. outing in the old, haunted mansion that her family owns. Yes, the same fate ensues. Emily and the two couples lose their heads in a terrifying chase among the Island’s woods. As Ronald is resting from his ordeal. Love shows up. They confront one another. Ronald kills Love, and makes his way back to the city.

Milo’s plot works. Ronald is flushed out, but he slips out of the trap, kidnapping Jannette, and takes her to the cabin in the woods. There Jannette tries to “comfort” Ronald, as he discloses how his mother tormented him with knives. Jannette loses it and triggers Ronald off. He goes after her. Just as he is about to take her head off, Milo appears and overcomes him. The last we see of Ronald is in a cell for the criminally insane where he is tearing away the sleeve of his straight jacket, whispering, “just wait, mother…just you wait.”

Delusion, a psychological thriller: in a modern, American upper class setting::

Catherine, lovely, forty and very, very rich, believes she killed her husband, Freddy. Her family shrink, Wilhelm Mortage, who married Catherine’s mother and then got her

Wilhelm keeps Catherine drugged so that she is easy prey to his suggestions. She can’t differentiate her hallucinations and nightmares from reality. Freddy, no-good and a cheater, and leaching off Catherine, is not dead. He is in league with Wilhelm, and appears to Catherine at night, and other times, as in a nightmare or delusion, threatening her and intensifying her guilt.

An attractive female cop, Sheila, who has been “investigating” Freddy’s death, is in reality having an affair with him, for promises of a life of luxury.

Catherine slips deeper into neurosis. Ironically, Wilhelm, having to disguise his manipulation with some good therapy, unawarely affects a breakthrough. An old memory surfaces: as a child Catherine witnessed her mother and father having a terrible, drunken fight, and mother accidentally killing father. Catherine realizes she confused this memory with her guilt over Freddy’s “Death.”

Actually, Catherine and Freddy had a drunken fight. He fled in their convertible. A while later Sheila called Catherine to report that Freddy was killed in a terrible car accident. All this was a plot to drive Catherine into insanity, engineered by Wilhelm. Taking advantage of her fragility, Wilhelm immediately began the drug, delusion inducing, regimen, preventing her from confirming Freddy’s death for herself.

After her breakthrough, Catherine goes to see Freddy’s body, in the family crypt, to convince herself of her sanity. She wants to say “goodbye” and to apologize. As she gazes at Freddy’s face, lying there in his casket, his eyes pop open and with a smile he says, “I forgive you, Catherine.” This does send Catherine over the edge. Wilhelm gets her committed. Alone in her hospital room, believing Catherine to be out of it, Wilhem gloats out loud about his brilliant victory. He later hears that Catherine has died.

Under Wilhelm’s direction, his beautiful young mistress, Amanda, seduces Freddy and tapes the sexual scene. They send the tape to Sheila, who, in a jealous rage, kills Freddy.

Her partner arrests Sheila. This leaves the path open for Wihelm and Amanda to enjoy the riches all for themselves. He tells Amanda that “with my heart, I know it shall fail me one day, as I gleefully hump away in your firm, young arms.”

Smugly asleep in his bed, Wilhelm is awakened by Catherine, grinning in his face. She is not dead. It’s a set-up, helped by Sheila’s partner. She heard Wilhelm’s gloating; she was not completely out of it. Now in sudden terror himself, Wilhelm’s heart, indeed, fails him. Catherine brings her mother home, to live happily with her.

Growing Love, a modern, Middle American character driven drama;

Isbel (“My mother left out the “a”), an attractive, young woman, whose boy-friend has just been killed in a car accident, gets tangled up with Danny, a spitting image of her lost love. Arthur, thirty years Isbel’s senior, has just lost his beloved wife, Iris, to cancer.

Danny moves in with Isbel, in her apartment over the little flower shop she manages and is saving to buy. Danny turns out to be a batterer. Isbel’s father was a batterer. Her enabling response traps her. Danny leeches off her, cheats on her. Finally, he leaves her. Arthur gets drunk and ends up at the flower shop. Isbel reminds him of his wife in her youth. Returning sober, he makes friends with Isbel, and gets her to let him buy the shop; he grew flowers as a hobby, and become her partner. They enjoy happy moments.

Danny returns to see Isbel and Arthur hugging, in the shop. He assumes they are having an affair. Danny comes back at night and starts to batter Isbel. Arthur, coming over to confess he loves Isbel interrupts the mayhem and gets himself beat up, badly. Isbel nurses Arthur back to health. Arthur shows her respect and gentleness. They glide into a relationship and seem to be happy despite the age difference.

Danny can’t get over Isbel. He comes back, intending to kill Arthur. Isbel intercepts him. To protect Arthur, she goes to a motel with Danny. Arthur, armed with a gun, goes looking for the missing Isbel. He spots the flower truck and pounds on the bungalow door. Arthur shoots Danny through the door and wounds him. At Arthur’s trial, Danny testifies that it was his fault, and Arthur had every right to try to rescue Isbel. Arthur is sentenced to only six months. Danny, seemingly changed, begins to help Isbel in the shop. Sure enough, they slip back into a relationship. Isbel, torn with guilt, won’t let Danny live with her until Arthur is out, and she can let him down gently.

Arthur is released. He understands Isbel’s need, and goes to his own home. Danny moves in with Isbel. But Danny is Danny. She discovers he’s cheating and confronts him. Danny losses it and starts to batter Isbel. Somehow she finds new strength in herself, gained from Arthur’s respect and love. She gets hold of a knife and slashes Danny, drives him out of the apartment for good.

Isbel goes to Arthur, beat up and contrite. Enraged, Arthur lies in wait for Danny, slugs him unconscious, gets him to his house and ties him up. Danny comes to and taunts Arthur. He pounds Danny into a delusional state. Danny begins to beg “Dad” to stop. Isbel comes in. “Don’t hurt Mom,” Danny begs. Isbel, very moved, kneels at Danny’s side, and starts to untie him. She tells the distraught Arthur that “it’s OK, now.”

Arthur drives out to a field of wild flowers, and looks like he may shoot himself, but instead fires off the entire clip into the sky; a catharsis of his anger.

Danny comes back to himself and is contrite. Isbel rises to leave. Danny tries to hold her. She says to Danny, “ Just stick with that kid in you, Danny. I’ve got to go find my partner, we have a business to run.”

Soul Seekers, a TV sci-fi series: set in the 24^th century, can travel anywhere in time:

In the 24^th century human society has degenerated into a level of chaos, war, crime, and poverty, not seen since the dark ages. A group of people has formed the “Co-Op,” to try to restore order in the world. The Co-Op is a complete organization with a defense arm, since it is under regular attack by anarchic, warlord groups; the most powerful of which is the Earthfirst Brigade.

In escaping a battle with the Earthfirsters, a group of skilled Co-Op officers encounters a time warp and find themselves in a parallel world. Terrified in this strange and barren place, engulfed by close, dangerous cosmic activity, the group falls on itself in conflict about what to do. They start to fight one another.

But the missiles from their weapons cannot penetrate the sudden invisible shields that protect them. From nowhere a figure appears. He is very much like the master sergeant who sacrificed his life helping the group to escape, but much older. The figure tells the group, “There is no killing here.” He then implies alternative ways of solving conflicts. He rewinds time to just before the group started to fight. In the replay they do find a way to cool the conflict and cooperate in a plan of action.

They retrace their passage, find the time warp and return to earth. The experience excites and inspires them by the idea that if there are answers to the human moral dilemma, they may be found “out there,” in the unknown dimension of time and space. Perhaps out there, in time, the moral soul of life, ultimately human life, was lost. And perhaps the keys to restoring that soul may yet be found, and given back to humanity.

Because of world chaos, even science has stagnated since the end of the 21^st century. Space travel had been achieved but only within our own solar system, and for mining purpose. Our group, now tagged with the name “Soul Seekers,” prevails on leadership to fund the development of new technology. It takes years, during which time they continue to battle the Earthfirsters and other hostiles, and they do create an amazing technology. The smallest form of matter, called “minikin,” is discovered, and when harnessed supplies limitless energy and uses. The building of an amazing space ship follows. She is called “Spirit.”

They are ready to venture forth, even as, once more, the Earthfirst Brigade is attacking. Spirit manages to escape earth, but Earthfirst gains control of Co-Op and sends pursuit ships out to stop Spirit. Her technology is tested in battle. She leaves the pursuers in her dust and heads out to her destiny.

The answers the Soul Seekers may find come out of the action, drama, terror, love and humor, the conflicts within and between themselves, evoked by the situations they encounter. The episodic themes are what we deal with every day: jealousy, hostile rivalry, esteem, loyalty vs principle, racism, sexism, excess, addiction and…life.