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THE DEVIL'S DUE

THE DEVIL'S DUE
By Dave Wickenden

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE:

Logline: When a grieving man helps a woman and her daughter who are being pursued by a cult, he finds himself drawn into an eternal battle between good and evil.
The

SYNOPSIS:

A supernatural creature attacks cattle inside a barn and kill the entire herd in minutes, leaving the animals in torn

apart, lying in their own blood.

Returning to the family’s cottage to deal with his father’s death, MICHAEL protects a young woman, JOANNA, and

her daughter, LILITH, who are being pursued by a religious cult. Michael leads the women into the forest to lose

those chasing after them.

The leader of the cult, LUKE, attempts to isolate Michael by planting evidence so the police are chasing Michael

and the women as well.

After escaping from the cultist, Michael builds a shelter in the forest. During the night, the child has a seizure. The

beast attacks a family of deer. The next morning, the girl appears to have aged a couple of years.

Hoping he can call for help at a forest fire tower, a group of cultists surrounds Michael. He narrowly escapes when

the police arrive and a shootout between the two groups begins, but not before he sees one of the police officers

kill his own partner.

Injured, Michael makes his way down the mountain and meets with the women. Moving towards a sugar bush, the

daughter has another seizure. Up the hill, the beast appears and rips the pursuing cultist to shreds. The hold up

for the night in a sugar shanty. Michael and the women make love in the night. Michael spies the daughter

watching them. During the night, the girl has another seizure. Michael hears gunshots and screams far off in the

night.

The next morning, the girl has once again aged and is now a fully grown woman. Moving through the forest, they

find a cultist camp. Someone killed all the men in the cultist camp. Michael finds food supplies and a strange box

that holds a broken spearhead. When he holds it, Michael gets a short vision that is unsettling. The daughter fears

the spear.

The cultist starts a fire meant to flush out Michael and the women. Overcome by the fire, the trio shelter within a

small waterfall and the fire races past them. When they emerge, they are all freezing and incapable of continuing.

Michael recalls a cave shelter his father had shown him and makes his way to the cave. Once he has a fire going,

he returns for the women and their supplies.

Michael has a vivid dream where he is making love once more to the woman, but she transforms into the

daughter, who is a demon. When he wakes, he finds he is covered in scratches. He holds the spear and witnesses

another vision. This time it is of the crucifixion of Christ and of the spear cutting into Jesus’s side. This is the same

spear that Michael has found.

Emerging from the cave, he finds the women surrounded by the cultists. He learns the girl is the daughter of the

devil and plans to open the gateway to earth for her father and his demon army. The cultists are trying to stop

her. Before his eyes, she transforms into a demon. The Hellhound attacks cultists at her command. The spear

comes to life and in the ensuing battle, plays a key role in defeating both the hellhound and the demon, stopping

the devil’s hordes from invading the world.

Michael finds out that the cult leader had worked with his father and that they only have a few years to prepare

for the next attack.

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