Step Outline- Hiking Trail (A Horror)
Prologue
Ext. Woodland Park,
Upstate California- Sunset
It’s mid-autumn, hot.
A week before school starts, there’s a family gathering. A young woman is
arguing with her father. She’s holding onto her food. Then, she grabs her purse
and storms off. Her father calls after her, but she’s heading into the mouth of
the woods.
ACT I
Ext. The mouth of
the woods- Dusk
She walks along the
hiking trail, grumbling about her father. She takes a bite of her hotlink and
complains about leaving her beer behind. She isn’t alone.
Int. Feelings
She wants to have
one family outing where she doesn’t fight with her dad. It’s the same repeating
argument, just a different scene. He always eats away at her good time. Why
can’t Dad let me be?
Ext. Right at the
throat of the woods- Dusk
She shouts to the
listening woods she doesn’t want to return to her father. And the beast that’s
stalking her listens.
ACT II
Ext. Swallowed by
the woods- Dusk
The beast watches
the woman slide down the woodland path. She’s speaking to herself aloud.
Int. Thoughts
Are her troubles so
loud that they have to escape her body? If the beast sinks its teeth into her
throat, will her words of anguish spill out with her blood? And then she shouts
she doesn’t want to return to her father. If she doesn’t have any plans to
leave the woods, he should have his fill.
ACT III
Int. Inside the
belly- Dark
There are blistering
bubbles below her. She lost a shoe and three toes. The walls flex and relax
against her crawling hands. She didn’t know someone was tailing her and
listening. She was so consumed with her fight with her father that she got
devoured by another man.
