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BLOWTORTURE
By Matt Burns

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE:

A washed-up child actor has grown into a psychotic man and he's prowling around the Hollywood Hills, torching celebrities' faces with a bowtorch, destroying their beauty and ruining their careers.

SYNOPSIS:

Adonis White used to be one of Hollywood's biggest child stars, practically on the same level as Shirley Temple. But one day there was an accident on a movie set - a stunt gone sour - and his face got burned in a fire. With his cute looks gone, his career died overnight and the public forgot he ever existed. Flash-forward many years later and now Adonis is a grown, borderline-psychotic man. Years of living in near-isolation - locked away within the confines of a spooky Hollywood Hills mansion - has made him snap. Now he's on a “blowtorching spree”, going around the Hills, burning celebrities' pretty faces off with a blowtorch and destroying their careers in movies/TV. As twisted and delusional as he may be, Adonis sees himself as a superhero, making a statement about the CONDITIONAL love that pervades Hollywood. Without a nice face and a good image, he says a person in Hollywood has no value. Only once the shallow outer beauty is destroyed can a person actually discover inner beauty, their true value and find unconditional love. But even though Adonis has good intentions justifying his actions, there are also clear elements of bitterness and jealousy to his character, as well as a longing for the days when he was a star loved by the public, however conditional the public's love for him was...

BLOWTORTURE

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