Sarah
An elderly woman battling Alzheimer’s begins to lose her grip on reality, drawing her family into a waking nightmare where hallucination and truth become impossible to separate.
Sarah lives with her daughter Terri, her son-in-law Tom, and her teenage granddaughter Lana in the home where Terri was raised. As Sarah’s condition worsens, everyday moments fracture into frightening distortions. Her attempts to help around the house only deepen Terri’s exhaustion and strain the family’s fragile balance.
Strange changes begin to appear. Cracked porcelain. Warping walls. A sinkhole slowly opening in the backyard. When the family dog vanishes, followed by members of the household, Sarah is left alone, unable to tell whether disaster is unfolding around her or inside her own mind.
As reality collapses into a series of surreal loops, Sarah confronts the most terrifying possibility of all: that her love, her memories, and her mistakes may have consequences she cannot escape.
Sarah is a psychological horror story about aging, guilt, and the devastating cost of losing trust in one’s own perception.
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JZ MurdockWriterPVt. Ravel's Bolero
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Project Type:Short Script
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Genres:speculative fiction, horror, scifi
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Number of Pages:28
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
Filmmaker, author, writer JZ Murdock co-founded LgN Productions in 1983 and revived it in 2016. His first film "Gumdrop", a short horror has won several awards and his current project, "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero" won more than a few awards so far on the film festival circuit.
His short horror screenplay, "Popsicle Death" was a finalist in 13Horror.com's screenplay contest in 2022.
His horror/comedy, "Gray & Lover The Hearth Tales Incident was semi-finalist in Circus Road Films screenplay contest in which three short screenplays were the basis for the overall portmanteau screenplay: "Sarah, "Popsicle Death", and "Poor Lord Ritchie's Answer".
Sarah was originally a short story. This story/screenplay is also contained as a short story in Anthology of Evil (2014).