Mined
Feature Screenplay, 101 pages
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
Posted by Joe Martinez
Written by Joseph I Martinez
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Reading palms and pulling cons is how this fast-talking family of psychics make their living, but when they pull one con too many and lose everything, a mysterious spirit gives them a clue that could change their lives forever--the whereabouts of a buried treasure hidden deep within a haunted mine.
Character DrivenFantasyMonsters/AliensMythicalOccultParanormalRuralSupernaturalThriller
Time Period: PresentStory Location: USASpecial Effects: Minimal SFXTarget Audience: AdultMINED
Three psychics: Ray, Marissa and their daughter Katherine live and work in their RV parked at Venice Beach. Each of them poses their own ability: Ray can levitate objects, Marissa can see the future and Katherine can enchant people to do her biding.
Things are great at the beach for the family; they tell fortunes, pull some harmless cons, and even sell a little weed. But when a palm reading goes horribly wrong, they are forced to escape, and soon find themselves in a truck stop performing a séance at gun point. The trio uses their wits to out-smart the would be robber--and even comes out ahead. A thankful spirt from the séance provides directions to a hidden treasure buried in a abandoned mine.
With things finally looking up, they journey into the mine and quickly discover that they are not in an ordinary abandoned shaft. They must use their powers to fight all things unholy: from creepy crawly insects to zombies to ghosts and more. Risking life and several limbs, they navigate the darkness and ultimately find the hidden treasure chest--only to learn that they are the victims of a sinister scheme. There is no treasure and something evil has been absorbing their psychic power since they first stepped foot inside the mine!
Out of power and out of time, the group puts their fate in the hands of two odd and untrustworthy characters who know the way out. Will the group make it back to the surface alive? Or are these new 'friends,' taking them further into the mine... to the very thing that created this haunted place? A century old witch.
