Blood Moon
Rising
A supernatural thriller feature • franchise runway
PRODUCER SUMMARY
Logline: A former forensic toxicologist investigating a brutal Boston subway murder finds occult signatures linked to his wife’s unsolved death—and must team with a woman tied to ancestral witchcraft to stop a necromancer from using the coming Blood Moon to open a gateway between worlds.
Genre: Supernatural Thriller • Occult Horror • Mystery
Format: Feature Film (screenplay)
Setting: Contemporary Boston (subway + city locations)
Status: Script complete
Materials: Script • One-Sheet
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About T. A. DeBonis
Creator, screenwriter, and author with 30 years of broadcast television and film production experience, including 17 years with ABC News. His work focuses on mythic, supernatural, and adventure-driven IP for global film and television adaptation.
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• Open to options, shopping agreements, and co-pro development.
Feature Script
One–Sheet
WHY THIS WORKS
A subway murder, a buried grief, and a Blood Moon ticking down to one night.
• High-concept hook: Forensic realism collides with occult rules—science vs. ritual.
• Personal engine: The case echoes Paul’s wife’s murder, so every clue is emotionally loaded.
• Built-in ticking clock: The approaching Blood Moon drives momentum and escalation to an inevitable night.
• Two-hander chemistry: Skeptical investigator + witch-bloodline ally = friction, danger, and shifting power.
• Cinematic, producible setting: Boston’s subway and night streets deliver atmosphere and dread without requiring heavy VFX.
• Franchise runway: Mythology and antagonists can expand naturally—new cases, new rites, new bloodlines, bigger stakes.
WORLD & TONE
• Occult Boston: A modern city with old shadows—subway tunnels, back streets, forgotten spaces, and hidden ritual sites.
• Grounded investigation: Procedural clues and forensic logic… until the evidence stops behaving like the natural world.
• Ritual horror, not fantasy: Sigils, offerings, and rules-based magic that feels dangerous and specific.
• Atmosphere-first: Cold nights, flickering fluorescents, steam, rain, and deep pockets of darkness beneath the city.
• Escalation to the Blood Moon: The supernatural pressure increases in clear stages as the night approaches.
• Tone: Tense, gritty, and emotionally driven—dread with momentum, ending in a full-throttle occult climax.
KEY CHARACTERS
A skeptic with a wound, a witch with a bloodline, and a necromancer chasing the Blood Moon.
PAUL KENDALL
Former forensic toxicologist • hard skeptic • driven by an unsolved loss
• Dismisses the occult until Anna forces him to face the specifics of his wife’s murder—and what really killed her.
• Becomes the human “anchor” in a world of rituals, bloodlines, and Blood Moon math.
• Protective instinct kicks in—he steps between Anna and Collins when things go violent.
ISAAC COLLINS
Ancient necromancer • blood-ritual strategist • endgame: the Great Gate
• Blood Moon = his ascension window: he plans to open the Great Gate at peak lunar hour.
• Kendall is a nuisance. Anna is the prize—the last link in a bloodline he needs.
• Operates as a reality-warping threat in his domain: weapons stripped, physics bent, power absolute.
ANNA COLLINS
Witch-bloodline descendant • keeper-level power • steel under pressure
• Keeper of the Black Flame—ancestral lineage with real ability.
• The mission is personal: Collins wants her bloodline broken; she wants him buried.
• Strategic, not airy—she maps Boston by ritual requirements and pushes the fight to the enemy.
• Accompanied by Onyx, her guardian lynx.
DENNIS
Boston cop • Kendall’s trusted ally • grounded “street reality”
• Paul’s connection to the official investigation—and the guy who can open doors, pull reports, and warn him when the case turns.
• Doesn’t believe in magic, but believes in Paul—and follows the evidence until it gets dangerous.
• The line that keeps the story anchored in procedure while the occult escalates.
THE HOOK / STORY ENGINE
THE HOOK
A former forensic toxicologist is pulled into a brutal Boston subway murder—and the evidence carries occult signatures that echo his wife’s unsolved death. When a witch-bloodline ally confirms the pattern is real, the case becomes a race to stop a necromancer’s Blood Moon ritual before it opens a gateway between worlds.
WHAT HE DISCOVERS
• The murder scene isn’t random—it’s ritual work with repeatable symbols and rules.
• His wife’s case wasn’t “cold”—it was part of the same occult system.
• Anna’s bloodline is directly tied to what the necromancer needs to finish the rite.
• The closer they get, the more the city itself starts to feel compromised—people, places, and evidence.
WHAT ESCALATES
• The killings intensify as the Blood Moon approaches—each act feeding the final opening.
• The investigation shifts from solving a crime to surviving an enemy who can bend reality in his territory.
• Kendall becomes leverage, then target—forced to choose between truth and protection.
• The endgame locks to one night: stop the ritual, or the veil tears open.
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