Chilling Thriller. A small-town Police department receives a box full of video tapes. The footage shows a man abducting a number of women and abusing them in an unknown location. When detectives think they've tracked down the man responsible, he's found dead, hanging from a tree. With no links to the missing girls in the area, the words "They're alive" were carved into the tree. Desperate to find the helpless people locked up somewhere, the tapes are the only clues to find them, when their deeply analysed again, a mind boggling riddle within the footage is revealed, police must work it out in order to find them, but will it be too late to find them alive? BIG SPOILER: The man using the video camera isn't the same man abusing the women, their are two of them.
Leon's Film Idea;
A youth who is deeply involved in a criminal organisation within his estate in the city. He follows his own belief & doesn't pay any attention in school. He chooses that physical action is worthy instead of discussing the issues that are irritating him. He was also crazy in love with his teacher, & held an obsession towards her. One night, he recognises her about to walk through an alleyway hidden amongst the concrete jungle of his estate. He is highly intoxicated with illegal substances & a huge amount of alcohol. He follows her, explaining his feelings, but she just laughs & tell him to go home. Angry & frustrated, he decides to give her a beating, where he punches & kicks until she dies. Then he takes her body to a countryside to bury her remains, but the ordeal is witnessed, & he is soon approached by officers holding a warrant for the arrest on suspicion of murder. He is later found guilty & sentenced to life imprisonment, where he does a 9 year custodial sentence before being released on good behaviour. Little did he know he was about to become a father.
After the early release from prison he realises he needs to choose his options, keep with his involvement within the gang or chase his dream; to become a professional singer/songwriter. But his involvement in the criminal organisation is the first option he chooses, realising that a warfare is believed to be happening & he will be needed to take control of a percentage of the criminal organisation & proceed with the rules & regulations in order to survive this dangerously erupting occurrence. The criminal organisation that he has a strong connection with are known as to being targeted by the police for countless criminal underworld movements, i.e;
Drug supplying within the community.
Supplying guns & other dangerous artillery.
Mindless strings of armed robberies, including banks, jewellery stores, & other valuable stores across the city.
The Murders of several police informants.
Kidnapping & taking hostages under lethal force.
Money laundering.
Poisoning the minds of younger acquaintances & recruiting them into this horror edition of life.
He gets himself tied up in a mixture of crimes. Including several murder accounts, supplying drugs & military equipment (of weaponry status), endless amounts of armed robberies, money laundering projects, & tragic kidnapping ordeals. He realises his actions & pieces together the future he's been relying on for his girlfriend & son. So he begins his journey of escaping the murderous organisation, to pursue a life of luxury by his music. By the time he's realised where his life is heading, he is arrested on suspicion of;
Drug dealing.
Murder.
Recruiting new members.
Supplying military equipment.
Possession of a fire arm.
After a month in prison, waiting for his trial, he is later released without charges, due to the crime gangs influence to put justice towards another boys direction, a new gang member. Within the month he spent in prison, awaiting trial, he realised he was professionally talented within the music industry. It was then that he realised his future ambitions, & began writing music on a daily basis. It is at that moment that he realises he wants no further involvement within the crime organisation. He mentions that he wants to leave the gang & is then blackmailed to stay or his girlfriend & son will be murdered, indefinitely. During the struggle on how he can escape the situation he is deeply amongst, he is remarkably offered a deal by a top police crime investigator, to help him capture the gangs most violent members & place them behind bars. He agrees to help, believing his future could progress to a life of fame, being a singer/songwriter. He casually plays along with all the crimes going on within the organisation, taking notes & informing the crime investigator on any reliable information that could be used to assist a custodial sentence. Part of the deal is to place his girlfriend & son into a police environment, clear from any danger, if faults were to be made. He fakes his son & girlfriends death, to be certain they are safe & placed into a police protection scheme, far away from the possibilities of danger.
After being involved in the city's most dangerous criminal underworld, he ends up in prison, doing a 9 years custodial sentence for murder. He is later released & back involved with the crime organisation. He is later arrested & faces many charges, he is placed in prison awaiting a trial for murder & other suspicious activities. His gang influence a new member to take the blame, offering him a substantial amount of money. He accepts the offer, & informs the police that it was him who committed the murder offence & the other cases, thereby he is arrested & taken to prison to await trial, where he later commits suicide. His life has been tragically taken, because of a false accusation he made claiming that he committed a crime he had no involvement with. After he is released from prison, he realises his fate & what destiny lies ahead of him & his family if he decides to stay within the criminal organisation. He makes the decision to leave the murderous gang, & he later explains this to the present members. They give him an alternative & tell him that if he leaves, they will kill his girlfriend & son. He is approached by a police crime investigator who offers him a remarkable deal; to take action & help place the main gang members in prison. He agrees to do so if they give him an immunity from prosecution, a new location, & assure the safety of his girlfriend & son while this is happening. Its a deal. Persistent on still writing his music through explaining his life, his involvements in the city's most dangerous criminal underworld, & his everyday occurrences. Through his eyes, you will experience his everyday routine, live within the streets he does business, & stand within his shoes. Capture the tragedy that holds an everyday occurrence. Realise the dangers that could be going on within your communities & the surrounding areas, that you possibly have no idea about.
Questions & messages hidden within the film are as follows;
Who are the real criminals behind this self made organisation?
Do each of the members get there fair share of justice served cold?
Is he still involved in the criminal organisation?
Does he escape the streets of the horror he is living within, to live a life of luxury through persistently pursuing his music through the emotional devastation he has faced along the way?
A married women with a 18 year old married daughter from a different marriage is having an affair. The police get a 911 call from her but the call is abruptly ended. The police go to her house to find only her husband passed out on the couch apparently drunk because of his slurred talk. They find blood on a knife, on the floor and in the trunk of his car. It turns out to be the wife's blood. The body is never found but he is still found guilty of murder. A lot of this movie would have to do with prison life. 22 years later he is released on parole. A year latter there is a knock on the door. It is a tired out drug using prostitute. It is his step-daughter. She tells him the truth. Her mother faked her murder to run away with her lover and split the life insurance with her daughter. She had drugged him and planted the evidence. She had established a new identity and was living in Oregon. The mother screwed the daughter out of her share so she decided to tell her step-dad. The man goes to Oregon and finds his wife. He watches her every move. One day while she was having lunch in a restaurant he walks in and sits next to her. She tries in vain to explain why she did it. He says, “I forgive you. I forgive you just as soon as you are dead,” then a shot rings out and she falls over dead. When the police show up he says, “Not much you can do. I already served my time for killing her.”
Plot: A young woman that will do anything for a happy family get involved with this older man, who’s later convicted of killing five women. She doesn’t believe it; she’s blindly in love. She does everything to get him out of his situation, and out of the death penalty by hiring the most respected lawyer. The lawyer only gets the judge to take away the death penalty, but he is given life in prison.
The woman is so desperate to rescue her love from behind the bars of prison. So her last attempt was to make a deal with the judge that she declared: “if he kills me in about five years, after living together, then he will be given the death sentence. But if she gets out and is spared her life, then he would be set free.“ The judge thought about it under one condition. If the convicted murderer wears an ankle bracelet, then he would grant the plea and suggestion of the woman. She agrees as well. In the next months that passed by, she is thinking that it’s a chance at a new life and family, and makes plans for the future. She loves him so much to suspect that he is capable of committing such heinous crimes. But he can’t help or control the dilemma that he is in. He has mental issues , and is contemplating on getting rid of her towards the completion of the five years. She starts thinking to herself, “was I wrong and were the others right?” She begins to have fears of being harmed by him. Its so close to the maturation of the five year period granted by the judge. But she’s too scared to back down. The suspense and anxiety is so strong. She can’t take it anymore and feels that he is going to kill her soon. So she decides to kill him before he takes her life. Now she is standing before the judge who sentenced her lover. Her sentence is handed down by the same judge. She is sentenced to death by lethal injection the same way he was going to die.
It's just an ordinary school trip to the London Museum. That is until the Year 10s meet up in the cafe for lunch and the teachers realize a girl is missing. With only 3 hours due until the coach arrives to take them home back to Somerset time is against them and when a search of the museum gives no result they have to start thinking that the girl may have left the museum and is somewhere out in the big city. Things turn from bad to worse when the police arrive and on questioning some of the students discover that the girl had made plans to meet a guy she had met on the internet. It doesn't take long for the police to discover that the guy in question is actually a suspected paedophile. Now the race is definitely on, the police have no idea how long she's been gone or where she is but her life could be in serious danger.
Rest Stop, The Movie.
You have looked forward to your get away to Las Vegas, you have saved enough money to make it a fun trip.
It is a long drive and you are almost there, the last rest area before you get to Vegas is just up ahead. You are in need for a stop and you are thankful but not this time.
Four convicts escape from the Oregon Prison, they have one goal to take over a rest area just outside Vegas to rob all comers knowing people are packing a lot of cash.
A guard is killed and there is a nation-wide manhunt, It is a long way to Vegas from Oregon. Murder, robbery,
car-jacking and rape are part of their road trip. The movie never slows as you get the insight not only of the convicts but the victims. There is an F.B.I. agent on their tail always just a step behind.
The movie has a fast paced format that speeds up as the story all comes together at the rest stop.
Rest Stop was written more as a movie then a novel. It has all the makings and ingredients that make a movie a commercial success. The Blockbuster movie Jaws comes to mind. Before you enter the water at the beach, you think of sharks, Paranoia. The same when it is late at night and you stop at a rest area, before you get out you look for sharks.
People are infatuated with prison stories then throw in the escape .People get drawled in with the pursuit. The dialog is full of profanity but realistic. The scenes in the movie will be graphic but again realistic.
The movie is designed at the ending to leave room for a sequel. The novel is available on Kindle
