A Family Moment

In all of my years as a movie agent for Mr. Ross there was never a film that would surprise me, not in a good way of course his films we’re always unique and different from one another. Though there was one project… Something that would change my life forever… I never thought about releasing this to the public because of what the government told me until I… I… I saw him in the middle of the day, just… Staring at me.

It all started with the final project Mr. Ross was always talking about, his films we’re always dark in one way or another but he wanted his last film to be more “light”. When the script for it was finished it had to be given a name (Mr. Ross was always like that, for him the hardest part was naming his projects)after a couple of days he settled for the name “A Family Moment”. The film was about 3 families and 10 other employees. In the film a blizzard hits the lodge where these characters are staying at, when they are snowed out they overcome each other’s prejudice and bias and in the end they unite as one around a fire, then the storm ends leaving the ending shot of them all around the fire smiling.

When Mr. Ross set out for the lodge he brought 24 people with him, each family in the script had a good attribute and a bad attribute, all had two parents and two adults, plus the ten employees and two editors. Mr. Ross said it would take a full year to film and in order for everyone to get into character he asked me and the other producers not to disturb him until a full year had passed.

Mr. Ross was fully confident nothing would go wrong because he talked to the local meteorologist about the annual weather for that year. He left right after winter along with the whole cast of his movie. After a full year had passed me and the producer went up to the lodge. When we got there it all the lights were turned off and I felt like we missed Mr. Ross or had the wrong location… But then I saw it… The tape in yellow envelope with a letter saying they’re “celebrating” the end of the project and do not wish to be disturbed. The producer did not take this to well and refused to leave until he had seen Mr. Ross. We knocked at the main door for an hour, at this point I decided to leave, I asked the producer if he wanted to come with me but… He didn’t instead he stayed. I wasn’t worried about him at the time because I knew he would be safe, sorry thought he would be.

When I returned to the screening studio me and ten critics started the film. The film went good until half way through the plot… The plot we had written out at least. The last “normal” shot was when a snowstorm hit… Af-… After that… It went black then came back on revealing a very destroyed dark lodge. We weren’t scared because Mr. Ross always added creepy shots to his films as joke and he had them removed after the screening. Though the next shot was a point  POV of a very scared family hiding from something, they couldn’t see the camera because it was very dark, though they knew it was there. The camera was using night vision so we couldn’t see if they we’re actually scared or just acting.

After about ten minutes of them screaming to go away we figured out it was the family in the plot of the film, they we’re the first to get their conflicts resolved. The next shot shocked us all… It… It was someone wearing the torn off face of one of the African American actors, it… It showed the man carving swastikas into the foreheads of the now dead first family… We reread the script and realized the first family in the plot were racist and believed whites were supreme. The next shot was another POV of a family sleeping, this was the second family to get their conflicts resolved in the script. At this time three film critics left the room and left the building. It filmed the family sleeping for hours until one of them got up. The next shot made me gag horribly, it showed the masked man from earlier forcing the adult to kill their children by… By beating them to death. After the adults reluctantly did this the masked man cut off one of the children’s arms and began beating the father of the family, the man tried to resist but the masked man was to strong. The Mother began to run away while he was doing this. We read the script and realized that the second family were child abusers. Whoever this masked man is, was killing people by the script. After this five critics left the room leaving two. Then it showed a POV of someone (probably the masked man) stalking the mother of the second family, cornering her, then strangling her to death. The next another POV of someone dragging the daughter of the third family by her hair and cutting of her legs and arms while she was still alive… I remember the screaming to this day… After he was finished cutting off her arms and legs he then point the camera towards the rest of the family… The-… All of them… Had no legs and arms,the youngest was a 6 year old boy who was dead, the rest of them… Were begging and screaming, moaning any horrid sound you think a human being could make they made it. They tried to get away but they couldn’t move… This made the masked man laugh. In the script the third family hated cripples. One critic left the room (I guess the other one didn’t want me to view this by myself).

The next show was something in the script… The ending shot of everyone together smiling. It… It showed the entire cast… Dead… On the couch… With smiles carved into their eyes, and eyes plucked out. The camera turned around to reveal the two film editors crucified against the wall… They we’re alive… and crying, no begging Mr. Ross to let them go, at this point I realized the killer was Mr. Ross himself, and he was… Laughing at the editors, Mr. Ross then used the projector to replay the murders he committed and forced the editors to watch them. One of the editors refused to open his eyes, so Mr Ross then took his eyes out, the screaming the editor did went on for hours before he tore his vocal cords and went silent. The other editor was begging Mr. Ross to unnail him from the wall. This goes on for two hours before the screen goes black. I called the producer’s cell phone as soon as the film ended but… He didn’t reply, we had the police search the lodge and to our surprise all they found were the bodies of the entire cast, on the couch with scars for smiles, the bodies were three days old.

That was four years ago though, I don’t know where Mr. Ross is now, but a week after I found the film a family in a town closest to lodge was murdered by numerous syringe needle stabs all over their bodies, including the children’s. Worse than that the whole thing was filmed and sent to the local police. I know he’s alive, and I know he’s now trying to “resolve” other family’s conflicts. I also know he can travel anywhere and not be caught, When I saw him yesterday. I was in New York City at the office of my new employer, but the strangest thing was the last time I heard of him he was 2,000 miles away…