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“Evan’s Game” is based on an original screenplay that compares well in quality and mood to “The Grudge” which has grossed $110M to date.
Shot on 35mm film for a reliable workflow to theaters as well as all home entertainment formats.
From script through post, the filmmakers are a collaboration of production entities, each able to bring valuable resources and professional experience.
Starring - David Tolemy and Steven Vilendrer
Executive Producer - Mario Abuhamdeh
Producer - Tammy Massa
Director - Wayne Schotten
Cinematographer - Bruce Logan ASC
Songs - Dukey Flyswatter and Haunted Garage
Screenplay - Wayne Schotten, David Tolemy
Original Story - Dominic Koulianos
Editor - Wayne Schotten |
OPENING TITLES: The camera prowls the bottom of a pond past discarded tires, bottles, etc. to a pair of concrete blocks weighing down the badly decomposed bodies of a man and a woman, then breaks the surface of the water showing a happy young boy Evan walking home. The bodies are Evan’s parents who were killed along with his Grandma by his older brother RAYMOND, a college student hell-bent on finding the fortune in gold coins hidden in Grandpa’s house. Raymond’s one redeeming quality is his trying to be a good big brother to Evan.
Evan arrives home just as his older brother Raymond pulls in the drive of their dilapidated house. Together, they enter the house carefully, afraid to upset their usually drunken, angry, Viet Nam vet, Grandpa. Raymond pauses to peer under a loose stair board, the first of many times he searches the house for a hiding place for treasure.
During the war, Grandma had skimmed off gold coins secretly brought in the US by the CIA and hid them somewhere in the house, or so the legend goes. Raymond has gotten rid of Grandma and his parents but has yet to take on Grandpa, who seems clueless about the hidden fortune.
While Grandpa goes off drinking with his war buddies, Raymond’s girlfriend Tina and their friends Carl and Shannon come to drink and make out. While breaking out the first of many beers, they talk about their homework assignment to write an essay on the book 1984. Carl defends the lead character who betrayed his girl friend when he was threatened with face eating rats.
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Evan badgers the gang to play with him, but they want to get to the making-out stuff, so Carl tricks him with a game of Hide and Seek which leaves Evan locked out of the house. When he pleads in fear to let him in him, they tease and mock him.
Grandpa drives home far too drunk, while the teens are making out. Grandpa is driving with the lights out, reliving war memories of escaping through enemy territory. He runs over Evan in front of the house. Evan dies in Grandpa’s arms and immediately becomes a ghost. Sometimes we see a ghostly Evan, and sometimes he possesses the alcohol impaired mind of Grandpa.
Grandpa plots revenge on the teens, disabling their cars and preparing his M-16 rifle. He interrupts the party and confronts the teens, threatening them with death for what they’ve caused. His sadistic plan is to hunt them in a game of hide and seek. The frightened teens cannot escape, so they try hiding in the basement and in the bedrooms, from which they can either escape or attack him.
By game’s end, Tina and Shannon are killed by Grandpa possessed by Evan. Carl lies dying with a broken leg in the basement chewed upon by rats. Upstairs, Raymond fights for the gun with Grandpa. A gun blast through the floor shatters Grandma’s old Mason jars in the basement all over the dying Carl, revealing the Krugerands among the old vegetables and broken glass.
Only Raymond survives and lives to reap his just rewards.
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