Final Winter
GENRE
APOCALYPTIC HORROR SUSPENSE / THRILLER
Core Theme
GOOD VS. EVIL
TIME PERIOD
Contemporary
COMPARABLE TITLES
A QUIET PLACE, THE MIST, CONSTANTINE
CHARACTER LIST
• HARRY JOBSON: LEAD. DRUNK, BROKEN
• LUCAS FERGUS: LEAD. LUCIFER INCARNATE
• STEPH: BEAUTIFUL, BARKEEP AND HARRY’S LOVE INTEREST
• DAMIEN: YOUNG, VIOLENT, MISUNDERSTOOD, DRUG DEALER
• JESS: BUBBLY, SWEET, MARKET CLERK
• PETER: POLISH, BRAVE, BODY THAT HIS MARKED BY ANGELS
• NIGEL: EVIL, SERIAL RAPIST
Logline
The blizzard is just the beginning.
Target Audiences
Age: 35-54
Target Gender: Universal
Setting
British pub and supermarket
Based on a True Story
No
Publishing Details
Status: Yes: self-published
Publisher: KDP
Year Published: 2011
Starting Description
On the night when it begins snowing in every country of the world, a ragtag group of strangers gather at a rundown English pub to take shelter from the cold.
Ending Description
God is wiping out humanity with a snowstorm, as he once tried to end it with Noah and the flood. The protagonist makes a terrible sacrifice that earns God's mercy and saves humanity.
Group Specific
Information not completed
Hard Copy Available
No
ISBN
ISBN-10: 146353356X ISBN-13: 978-1463533564
Mature Audience Themes
Language/Profanity, Extreme Violence, Sexual Abuse
Plot - Other Elements
Twist, Philosophical Questions, Meaningful Message
Plot - Premise
Overcoming Monster/Villain
Main Character Details
Name: Harry Jobson
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Desperate, Lone Wolf
Additional Character Details
Name: Lucas Fergus
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Role: Mentor
Key Traits: Manipulative, Sarcastic, Adventurous, Badass, Charming, Confident, Extraordinary Powers and Abilities, Funny
Additional Character Details
Name: Stephanie
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Role: emotional
Key Traits: Aspiring, Beautiful, Empathetic
Additional Character Details
Name: Damien Banks
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Role: Antagonist
Key Traits: Complex, Criminal, Heroic, Lone Wolf, Aggressive, Badass
Development Pitch
FINAL WINTER A claustrophobic horror mystery HARRY JOBSON, 40, is sitting in his local pub like he does every night. Getting drunk. Tonight is different, however, as everyone in the pub is gathered around the television. There’s a worldwide snowstorm and the world is panicking. Except for Harry. Harry doesn’t care. Everyone in the pub knows Harry as a harmless drunk. The other regulars include OLD GRAHAM, 70; friendly barmaid STEPHANIE, 24; and local thug DAMIEN BANKS, 19. Also drinking in the pub tonight is NIGEL, a quiet man in his 40s who frequents the pub now and then between jobs as a long-distance lorry driver. While everyone is jittery about the snowstorm, they are all lost souls trying to find a little happiness at the bottom of a glass. It’s an ordinary night for most of them. That is until the lights go out and a stranger enters the bar. We switch to the supermarket across the road where JESS, 17, and PETER, 19, are getting ready to finish their shift and go home. When the power cuts, they are unable to lower the shutters and their nasty boss, KATH, 38, refuses to let them leave. Having had enough, Jess quits and leaves anyway, walking out into the blizzard. She feels a little guilty leaving Peter behind. We also meet BEN, 20 and JERRY 18, who both work at the video rental store next to the supermarket. They are closing up shop and preparing to start the journey home through the snow. As the air turns colder, those inside the pub welcome the stranger inside. A pecu
Brief
On the night of an apocalyptic snowstorm, a man with a tragic past finds himself holed up with unlikely group in an English pub trying to keep warm and he must face a sinister presence in the snow to save humankind.
What We Liked
- The premise is strong. The single setting does a great job of building suspense. It is very marketable - this would do extremely well among horror fans.
- Almost single location which helps to really build the suspense of the story.
- A character with a tragic past seeking redemption is always an audience pleaser.
- It is a perfect horror suspense story to bring to the big screen. It is almost ready to go as is and should be an easy sell.
- Key points: Suspenseful; Virtually single location; Popular genre; Horror with a redemption storyline; Use of exceptionally frightening imagery.
Synopsis
It is snowing in every country in the world. And it isn’t just any snow either. It is absolutely apocalyptic outside. A group of people are holed up in an English pub to ride out the storm where they try keep warm by drinking beer and building a fire.
Harry Jobson is among those in the pub. He has a sad and tragic past and now embraces his reputation as the town drunk at the pub each night. The power goes out and the group is soon joined by other locals fleeing the weather as well. The most notable is a jovial stranger calling himself Lucas.
It becomes apparent that something sinister is outside the pub as the locals recount stories of frightening encounters with tall hooded figures and vicious beasts. The patrons all come to accept this as a reality when a body with the words, “Send out the Sinner” carved into its chest is hurled in through the pub window. Tensions run high, squabbles break out and secrets are revealed.
While outside in the elements, Lucas finally tells Harry that he is the sinner that is being stalked by angels and Hell Hounds. When Harry committed murder, it was the last sin that God could tolerate and he ushered in the apocalypse as a result. Upon hearing of his immense impact on the world, he makes a great personal sacrifice. His selfless act causes God to reconsider and gives humankind a second chance.