Eyes of the Snake
“This is a delicate premise that could have
gone awry but was held in balance by the excellent execution.
This storyline (Eyes of the Snake) has no holes that
I can see. I never asked why a character did what they
did. It all fell into place with a pace and tension that
kept me involved. The set up, follow through and resolution
were all well handled. Great story.”
Reader’s Report, Festival Films
Ltd,. Vancouver, Canada.
A Feature-Length Screenplay by Mark Barkawitz
Genre: Thriller
Budget: Low-Medium to Medium
Logline: Two Los Angeles newspaper reporters—he
with a past; she with a future—team up with an enigmatic
psychic on the trail of a pornographic serial killer.
Synopsis:
Harry Doyle is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, whose
teenage daughter was kidnapped and murdered three years
ago. He is left an empty, bitter drunk, whose wife has left
him, while he struggles to keep his job at a Los Angeles
newspaper, where he has been demoted from hard news to the
societal confines of the Style Department. But when a local
schoolgirl becomes the latest victim of a serial killer,
Harry finagles his way onto the story, much to the chagrin
of Sydney Olsen, the beautiful, cosmopolitan, and newly-
hired hard news reporter. Teamed with an enigmatic psychic,
who claims the power to find missing children, the oddball
trio seeks to succeed where the police have failed—to find
the missing teenager before she becomes the latest victim
of a psychopath. The trail leads them out of L.A., into
the desert sands, and finally to Las Vegas for adult entertainment’s
version of the Oscars—the Fannie Awards.
First 10 Pages.
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