The Summoning

Logline:
The terror begins as a group of innocent college students recklessly try to call forth a malevolent and wicked demon from the dark, stinking depths of hell. This devastating spirit, who can only enter this world through a shattered mirror, is known by only one terrifying name - Bloody Mary!

Synopsis:
New England. The 1600’s. In a small, isolated cabin in the woods, a powerful, supernatural presence is being disturbed and summoned into our world. Using an ancient book of spells, a group of Satanic pagans try to summon the evil so-called “mirror witch” Bloody Mary. Fortunately, the plan is thwarted at the last minute by a brave and altruistic Priest. A single page the only surviving remnant of the large, ancient book, burned, and destroyed in a violent, devastating inferno…

New England. The present day. A college campus: Beautiful and naive college kids seem to inadvertently fall victim to the same horrific powers. When two fraternity boys and their girlfriends are found mysteriously and gruesomely dismembered, it sends alarm and fear through the campus. Confusion and panic reign. Even the police are baffled.

Four more foolish college co-eds decide to tamper with the unseen supernatural forces and play the dangerous game of horror, meeting with the same gruesome and horrific fate, and the campus is once again gripped with dread.

The distinguished Dean Carrington, with the help of the local police chief, tries to reassure the frightened masses that they have everything under control, and that the students and their families need not worry, but his reassurances fall on deaf ears.

One student, however, seems to have her suspicions as to what really may be happening. The lovely and mysterious Nancy Patrick was educated in Wicca, an ancient religion of nature and the unseen world. She knows intuitively that the killer isn’t human, and that the police are on the very wrong track. After a police investigation, she meets the sympathetic Detective Emily Watson, also schooled in the ancient Pagan religion. Together, they have the resources to put the pieces of the puzzle together. They are “sisters of the faith” and know all too well that the sinister entity that is committing the murders is evil and needs to be sent back to the dimension from which she came.

Emily’s more pragmatic partner, Detective Marshall Lewis, doubts anything having to do with the supernatural, and suspects Nancy of being a murderer. After an intense interrogation, lacking evidence, he must release her, but his suspicion is not diminished. Later, Detective Lewis accidentally summons the demon through a two-way mirror, and he becomes Bloody Mary’s next victim. Crazy Ben, a former professor at the college, now know as the “campus weirdo”, is found hovering over Detective Lewis’ bloody body, and is immediately blamed.

Nancy shares her apprehension with her best friend and roommate, the pretty Allison and her boyfriend, the handsome Cockney, Josh. Both doubt her story but seem rather intrigued in what she has to say. After a night of romantic passion, Josh and Allison decide to test Nancy’s theory that the “mirror witch” is committing the campus murders. Together, they hold hands, turn off the lights, stand before a mirror, and call her name. Bloody Mary dismembers and kills them leaving their bodies a bloody heap on the floor.

Nancy has been pleading with a reluctant Detective Watson, now convinced of Crazy Ben’s guilt, to continue working with her to banish Bloody Mary from this world. She is just about to leave when the call comes in, telling of the brutal, sadistic murder of Josh and Allison.

Now joined forces, Nancy and Emily soon find a daunting challenge on their hands. Time is of the essence, for each time Bloody Mary is called through the ever-growing portal, it becomes easier and easier for her to enter our dimension. Soon she won’t need to be summoned through a mirror at all. Having done extensive research, they now know how to capture the entity and send her back to the rotting corners of hell where she belongs before she is summoned forth once again.

The final showdown comes as a thunderstorm rages and the dorm building has become like an evil incubator and the gateway to unknown, unimaginable terror and evil. As Watson and Nancy enter, the black ooze of ectoplasm is everywhere, and the foul stench of evil is overpowering. The wicked spirit has become part of the very building itself.

Crazy Ben arrives and admits he had found and used the single page containing the summoning spell. He reveals his plan to sacrifice himself to pacify the spirit’s powerful thirst for revenge and satisfy the final spell. Standing in the middle of a chalk-drawn pentagram, he and the women repeat the ancient chant, tempting and drawing the spirit into its own conflagration, energy field and smoky, wispy whirlwind.

As the spell takes hold, the entity surrounds and consumes Crazy Ben with fire, smoke, and glass, drawing his body soul into the unseen world. All the combined energy is finally sucked through the portal one last time, the spirit at last retreating to its own dimension, back to a state of spiritual slumber once again. As Nancy and Detective Watson go their separate ways, Bloody Mary apparently still has some willing acolytes here on Earth, and the single, ancient page still survives…