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MONSTER MOUNTAIN

MONSTER MOUNTAIN
By DC Copeland

GENRE: Sci-fi, Horror
LOGLINE:

Hikers meet a tribe of half-human, half-dinosaur creatures and space aliens in the mountains and no one lives to tell about it.

SYNOPSIS:

Please note, there are two versions of this script. The newest has replaced the hero with a heroine and has become more female-centric. Both work from completely two different angles, i.e., it's one thing to do Eastwood as a man, but quite another when he's done by a woman. Plus, the survivors are now all women.

Two couples join a famous hiking guide for a weekend of mountain climbing. Twenty-somethings Paul and Rosie can't keep their hands off each other. Thirty-somethings Shelly and Bobby can barely tolerate the younger couple. Although their guide Jackson-- Rosie's mother-- may have made the cover of People magazine as America's last mountain woman, she never hikes without her buddy Jack Daniels.

Until the first death. Paul and Rosie bump up against what can best be described as a half-human, half-dinosaur 9' T-Rex. Paul is decapitated and Rosie turns up missing. Jackson orders Shelly and Bobby to run for it. Bobby doesn't make it out of the campsite. Slip-sliding down the forested slope, Jackson manages to kill a few of the dinomen before she and Shelly pause to hide and catch their breath. Jackson tells Shelly to continue on down the mountain for help as she goes back to search for her daughter. Shelly is captured while Jackson follows a dinoman into a cave, loses her rifle, is captured, and thrown into a hole in the wall inside the cave. There she discovers Rosie is still alive. Shelly joins them.

They meet a united universe of space aliens who have made Earth an outpost for science research. Alien, the leader, promises their safety and introduces Amelia Earhart to them. No one can believe she's still youthful after all these years. She escorts them to a room where they discover they can have anything they can imagine. When Amelia warns them not to trust anybody and later disappears, the captives, despite a night of heavy drinking, vow to escape. That opportunity comes when Alien pays a visit. Overpowered by Jackson, Alien is taken hostage but later freed when a dolphin betrays them. Recaptured, the humans await their fate.

Jackson forms an escape plan. As they make their escape, Shelly is eaten by a dinoman. Jackson

finds her rifle and, as she and Rosie run down the moonlit mountain, fires back at the bounding

monster-men while a flying saucer tracks them with a spotlight. When they reach another lake, Jackson throws her daughter into the water and tells her to swim while she makes a last stand like Davey Crockett at the Alamo. Rosie, nearly blinded by the harsh white saucer light, looks back and sees her mom devoured by a dinoman. She turns and swims for her life and tumbles over a waterfall. Lying on a road, with water running all around her, car headlights cause her to look up. She smiles. It looks like she has been saved. She lets her head fall back to the pavement. When she looks up again, she screams. The driver is a dinoman.

Nate Rymer

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