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GRAVE DANGER
By Jeffrey Paul McMahon

GENRE: Thriller
LOGLINE:

A care-free night-clubber searching for her abducted best friend, must neutralise a pair of sexually deviant ex-cons, before she, too, ends up in the cemetery where the two men work.

SYNOPSIS:

Care-free Tiffany, and naive Maria, BFF out for a good night of clubbing, meet up with the handsome Nick Ruebens, and the loner Tommy Hyde, former cellmates recently released from prison. Tiffany gets more than she bargained for when Ruebens offers her a sexually heightened experience – something she wouldn't wish on her worst enemy.

A few nights later when Tiffany goes off with a young stud, Maria doesn't hesitate when Ruebens and Hyde pick her up at a taxi stand. When the so-called 'heightened experience' goes awry, resulting in Maria's death, Ruebens decides to dispose of the body in a recently dug grave in the cemetery where he and Hyde work as labourers.

Back home earlier than she expected after a disappointing night, Tiffany realises Maria is not home and phones her. Travelling in their car, Hyde locates Maria's phone in a clutch bag beneath the seat and tosses it.

Next morning Maria's phone is found and taken to the local Police Station where it is deposited in a crate along with other lost property.

With her repeated texts going unanswered, Tiffany reports Maria's absence to the same Police Station where she is fobbed off for unduly worrying. Pushing her point, she rings Maria's phone; and when the phone in the lost property crate is heard ringing, Tiffany's concern is taken seriously.

Two Detectives, about to finish their shift, Rochelle Jelnick (28) and Harley Czjenowsky (30) are called to attend. Jelnick, attracted to Tiffany, offers to personally investigate. When Hyde's fingerprints are found on Maria's phone, Jelnick unofficially goes undercover and sets up a sting with Ruebens and Hyde, keeping Tiffany in the loop via her phone. But the sting backfires, and Ruebens incapacitates Jelnick, shoves her in the trunk of the car and sets off to dispose of her body in another recently dug grave.

Tiffany realises the dilemma and rings back Jelnick's phone. Ruebens answers and arranges to take Tiffany to 'meet up' with the detective and Maria. Before the rendezvous, Tiffany contacts the police again who, after realising one of their own is in peril, set about tracking the villains.

During a showdown in the cemetery grounds, Ruebens and Hyde meet their demise, with Jelnick, beaten and gagged but still alive, located in the car's trunk.

But with both miscreants gone, how to loctate the missing Maria? It's only when Tiffany recalls a cryptic comment from Hyde about unearthing the truth about mental illness, that they set about locating Maria's body in one of the recent burial sites, only to discover that Maria is not the only one who experienced the 'heightened experience'.

GRAVE DANGER

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