A Screenplay Sketch. Pablo Martinez Burkett
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H. P. Lovecraft – The lurker at the threshold
Pablo Martínez Burkett
FROM A NOTEBOOK of
director Jack Arnold: poultry and other farm animals begin to disappear in a
village of Louisiana. A few weeks later, pigs and cows meet the same fate. Some
children say they saw a misshapen being wandering through the marshes. It does
not take much to make him responsible for the misfortune. Locals prepare and
arm hunting parties. Boats ply the waterways. Torches illuminate the swamps.
But neither the hounds can trace the abominable hunchback. And the incident is
attributed to a juvenile prank. Calm seems to return for a while but suddenly
an invasion of mosquitoes attack humans and beasts. People lose their pets.
First was old Mc Donald’s guide dog. Later, "Precious", the poodle
that belonged to Jamie Gumb, the dressmaker. Even the orphans Flora and Miles’
guinea pig vanishes. Calamities do not cease. Fish, frogs, and alligators abandon channels and marshes.
Rev. O'Hara announces the imminence of the Second Coming. People experience
severe behavioral disorders and many bloody events occur. Sheriff John T.
Chance is overwhelmed. The Federal government sends in the National Guard. They
implement a curfew and rigorous cord 5 miles around. All pacification attempts
fail while news of similar events in Tierra del Fuego, Uganda, Siberia and
Canberra keep on coming. Villagers engage in acts of cannibalism. Professor
Zellaby believes he’s discovered a vaccine but time is short because Mayor
Schaeffer is determined to use a laser cannon to get rid of the so-called
"Plague of Torrance Town." Kay Lawrence, the beauty queen volunteers
to experiment with the serum. The test is
successful, and the few survivors advance to the barricades. Soldiers give a
warning and then open fire to eradicate the danger of contagion. A bolt of unusual lightning illuminates the
sky. Inside a flying saucer, a deformed being takes notes: "wildlife
fit for consumption but mosquitoes transmit our virus to indigenous species.
Demographic catastrophe is ahead".
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