Children of the Eternal Summer

Horror is one of the most appealing (and profitable) genres and there is nothing scarier than the human mind. While people can be skeptical about monsters or paranormal beings, we can’t ignore the fact that many of the worst things to ever happen to humankind are products of itself. We have caused countless terrible things – and, what’s even worse, is that we somehow find a manage to justify them. To think that it was the right thing to do or that the people who suffered from them “deserved it”. One might think that we have learned from our mistakes, but to be honest, our current society is clear evidence that we don’t. How many times haven’t we met a person who, on the surface, seems like a charismatic, charming individual… and that then disturbs us with some radical ideas that justify the suffering and death of someone else? It’s scary, isn’t it? The human mind is a very delicate, confused thing… and it can so easily fall into the manipulations of a charismatic leader, whether it be Charles Manson or Adolf Hitler.

That’s what Children of the Eternal Summer tries to explore. To show the scariest, creepiest side of the human mind. Our protagonists are a married couple who come as regular folks. Sure, they have problems and they aren’t saints. They are flawed and they are confused, but their problems are very mundane. Infidelity, jealousy, things a lot of people go through, and that, sure enough, can play a heavy role in the way we interact with others. But… all of that becomes nothing when they find themselves dealing with an actually terrible, dangerous group of people who are incredibly convinced that what they are doing is the right thing. The right call to save humanity. That is eating the people who are “killing the world”. Again, our protagonists are just regular people. They don’t have a significant role in the society. They are just struggling with “normal” stuff. However, they are judged and condemned for their confusion and mistakes… and become the victims of these sick individuals who keep seeing themselves as the saviors of the world.

And I wish I could say this is just pure fiction, but… it is not, right? We all see the news. We all watch documentaries. Things like this happen time and time again… and you will always find people defending the events. You will always find people defending the Nazis. You will always find people defending Charles Manson. And you will always find people defending every messed-up thing that happens. And that, for me, is what makes the human mind the scariest thing of all.

So, this project comes as a reflection of that. It intends to scare its audience by sending them through the hell our protagonists, Dan and Claudia, go through as they are hunted by a cannibal cult… and maybe, just maybe, make them think twice before they decide to follow a charismatic leader. After all, the climax for this story will require the realization of one of the cult members of the cruelness of the person she is following, which will lead to the falling of the hell this group has created through an incredibly cathartic (if violent) ending that shows that evil will always be destroyed.