30 DAYS OF NIGHT: INARI - script idea and a full screenplay/fanfiction
TITLE: 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: INARI
SETTING
Inari Municipality, northern Finland—a remote community above the Arctic Circle.
It is early winter; the sun disappears for 28–31 continuous days.
A small population is spread across forests, frozen lakes, Sami villages, and research outposts.
All satellite phones are destroyed early on. Roads ice over. Husky sled teams are targeted first.
STORY TREATMENT
ACT I
As the last daylight fades, Sheriff Ella Rantanen, a half-Sami officer in her 30s, prepares the town for the “kaamos” (polar night). Her ex-partner, Janne Korhonen, a wilderness ranger, arrives back from a month-long patrol of the Arctic Ocean islands. He reports strange tracks on drifting sea ice—claw-like impressions that don’t match any known predator.
Power crews secure the grid; tourism lodges shut down.
A mysterious fishing trawler without registration drifts frozen into Lake Inari.
Its deck is clawed, and the cabin is empty.
That night, the town’s satellite uplink tower is torn apart, leaving the municipality offline.
A husky kennel is attacked—sled dogs are found dead or missing. Tracks lead toward the treeline but stop abruptly.
The first disappearances begin: a reindeer herder, a pair of students at the Inari research station, and a snowplow operator.
ACT II
A group of vampires emerge from the Arctic Ocean, moving silently over frozen lakes and forest shadows. They appear almost feral, pale from centuries out of the sun, speaking a guttural, barely human language.
Attacks escalate. Survivors gather in the Siida Museum, hoping its thick walls can hold.
Ella and Janne lead a small group to search for survivors and find a Sami yoik singer, Ailu, who witnessed the creatures feeding. Ailu believes these beings are “Ráfiid bohccot”—ancient devourers from northern sea myths.
The group hides in an old underground WWII-era bunker, trying to ration food for the long month ahead. They move only during whiteout storms, using blowing snow as cover.
But as the vampires systematically destroy generators, snowmobiles, and fuel caches, the group realizes the creatures intend to starve or freeze out any resistance.
ACT III
As the final week of darkness begins, the vampires discover the bunker. Survivors scatter.
Ella formulates a desperate plan: lure the vampires to the abandoned hydroelectric station on the frozen Juutuanjoki river and overload the turbines, releasing a torrent of near-boiling pressure-heated water that could destroy the creatures.
A final battle occurs on the ice. Janne sacrifices himself to buy Ella time to trigger the release.
The rushing water shatters the ice sheet and sweeps most of the vampires beneath.
A few survivors remain—but the horizon glows blue with the first return of sunlight.
Ella limps toward the faint dawn as the last surviving vampire, badly burned but alive, retreats back toward the Arctic Ocean.
Fade out.
LOGLINE
When an ancient breed of feral vampires emerges from the Arctic Ocean to prey on the remote Finnish municipality of Inari during its month-long polar night, a hardened sheriff and her estranged wilderness-ranger ex must lead a dwindling group of survivors through the unending darkness — culminating in a desperate plan to turn a frozen river into a weapon before the sun returns.
CHARACTER BIOS
Ella Rantanen
Age: Mid-30s
Role: Sheriff of Inari / Protagonist
Personality: Steady, analytical, emotionally guarded, deeply protective.
Backstory: Half-Sami, born and raised in Inari. After years working search and rescue across Lapland, she returned home seeking stability. Her marriage with Janne collapsed due to his long wilderness deployments and her inability to express vulnerability.
Strengths: Tactical thinking, leadership under pressure, knowledge of the terrain.
Arc: Must confront the emotional walls she built and learn to trust again, especially as she loses people she cares about. Ultimately becomes the moral anchor for the surviving group.
Janne Korhonen
Age: Mid-30s
Role: Wilderness Ranger / Deuteragonist
Personality: Quiet, resilient, wry humor, guilt-ridden.
Backstory: A seasoned ranger who spends months at a time on Arctic Ocean patrols. Witnessed early signs of the creatures on shifting sea ice but couldn’t convince anyone. His marriage to Ella ended because he always chose the wild over home.
Strengths: Survival expertise, tracking, physical endurance, improvisation.
Arc: Moves from self-imposed isolation toward self-sacrifice. His final stand on the river is both redemption and a final gesture of love toward Ella.
Mari Vuoma
Age: Late 20s
Role: Deputy / Combat Support
Personality: Smart-mouthed, loyal, impulsive, brave.
Backstory: A rising star in local law enforcement. Lost her older brother in a winter storm years ago, giving her fierce respect for nature’s dangers.
Strengths: Close-quarters combat, quick thinking, high pain tolerance.
Arc: Evolves from eager sidekick to hardened survivor, ultimately helping Ella maintain control when everything collapses.
Ailu Siirala
Age: Early 70s
Role: Sami Elder / Cultural Bridge
Personality: Calm, introspective, warm, spiritually grounded.
Backstory: Keeper of oral traditions and old songs. Grew up hearing legends of creatures from the northern waters. Lost family over decades and carries quiet loneliness.
Strengths: Deep cultural knowledge, intuitive understanding of creatures, psychological stabilizer for the group.
Arc: Accepts his death with dignity. His yoik becomes both a weapon and a farewell. He sacrifices himself to distract the horde and give the young a chance to live.
“The Leader” — Vampire Matriarch
Age: Unknown (centuries)
Role: Antagonist
Personality: Bestial intelligence, predatory patience, strategic.
Backstory: Originating from beneath polar sea ice shelves, part of an ancient species adapted to darkness, starvation, pressure, cold.
Strengths: Heightened senses, ferocity, coordination of the horde.
Arc: Becomes progressively more desperate as survivors slip from control. Ultimately destroyed in the river explosion, though one of her wounded kin escapes.
The Student (Emmi)
Age: 22
Role: Tech mind / Emotional Heart
Personality: Anxious but brave, empathetic, curious.
Backstory: A university student doing environmental research near Inari. Lost her research team early in the attacks.
Strengths: Technical improvisation (radio rig, power station systems), resilience.
Arc: Transforms from terrified rookie into an emotionally grounded survivor. Represents the hope for rebuilding.
The Guide (Sakari)
Age: Late 40s
Role: Local wilderness guide / Early casualty
Personality: Practical, kind, unlucky.
Backstory: Longtime local who knows every trail and lake. Has a wife and two daughters who evacuated before the dark season.
Arc: Represents how vulnerable the town is. His death in the control room demonstrates the overwhelming force of the horde and raises the stakes.
Surviving Vampire
Age: Unknown
Role: Final lingering threat
Personality: Wounded, wary, more animalistic than before.
Backstory: A subordinate from the matriarch’s pack, barely surviving the river explosion.
Arc: Its escape hints that the species is not eradicated — leaving room for a sequel or ongoing threat.
30 DAYS OF NIGHT: INARI
(Full 110-page feature screenplay — Draft 1)
NOTE: This document begins with the full screenplay. Page numbers are approximate because this is a continuous text document. The screenplay uses standard formatting: scene headings, action, dialogue, transitions.
FADE IN:
EXT. ARCTIC OCEAN – NIGHT
A shifting field of black, cracking ice beneath a star-pocked sky. Wind roars—an endless, hollow scream.
A LONE FIGURE struggles across the ice on a sled.
This is JANNE KORHONEN (35), ranger, frostbitten, exhausted.
He stops. Listens.
A faint, rhythmic CLICKING—like bone tapping on bone.
Janne sweeps a headlamp across the ice. Nothing.
He takes another step and freezes—his boot inside a deep gouge carved in the ice.
Three long claw marks.
Janne’s breath quickens.
A shadow darts across the far ice—too fast, too quiet.
Janne turns toward the distant glow of land.
He moves faster.
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EXT. INARI MUNICIPALITY – SAME NIGHT
The quiet streets of Inari. Snow-covered roofs. Lights glowing weakly in the final hours of daylight.
A sign reads:
WELCOME TO INARI — ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE POPULATION: 6,800
Tourist shops shutter. Snowmobiles idle near cabins. Dogs bark at the growing dark.
INT. POLICE STATION – EVENING
SHERIFF ELLA RANTANEN (30s) checks gear: radios, batteries, flares.
MARI VUOMA (20s) sips coffee, watching the clock.
MARI That’s it. Last sunset. Kaamos begins.
ELLA Let’s hope people stay out of trouble this year.
Ella checks the SATELLITE UPLINK CONSOLE.
STATUS: INTERMITTENT
She frowns.
EXT. HUSKY KENNEL – NIGHT
Huskies grow restless. NUKKA, a white lead dog, stares toward the tree line.
A flicker of pale motion.
The dogs erupt in panic.
Lights flicker.
Go out.
A shadow crosses silently.
CUT TO BLACK.
EXT. LAKE INARI – NEXT MORNING
A derelict fishing trawler is frozen into the ice.
Ella and Mari approach.
Inside:
Equipment smashed. Walls clawed. Blood frozen in arcs.
Ella finds a logbook. Last line:
“They came from the water.”
A THUD below deck.
A fisherman emerges, frostbitten, terrified.
FISHERMAN (weak) Ne eivät ole ihmisiä... (They are not human...)
He collapses.
A distant SCREAM echoes across the lake.
EXT. FOREST EDGE – DAY
Janne returns toward town. He stops at the husky kennel.
Destroyed. Silent.
A pale FIGURE crouches over something in the snow.
Janne lifts his rifle.
The creature turns—thin, feral, eyes dark and reflective.
It GRINS.
Janne fires.
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EXT. FOREST TRAIL – AFTERNOON
Janne moves cautiously along the snow-covered path, rifle raised. The eerie quiet presses in. No birds. No dogs. Just wind.
He stops—sees drag marks crossing the trail. Blood frozen in glistening streaks.
He kneels, touches the ice.
JANNE (whispering) What happened out here…?
A distant HOWL. Not canine. Not human.
Janne stands and heads toward town, faster.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – EVENING
A safety meeting gathers locals—REINDEER HERDERS, SHOP OWNERS, STUDENTS, GUIDES.
Ella moves through the room addressing concerns.
ELLA We’ve had a series of incidents. Power issues. Animals killed. A missing herder. We need everyone indoors after dark.
Murmurs of fear.
OLD WOMAN You think it’s a bear? Wolves?
ELLA (shakes her head) Not like anything I’ve seen.
The doors swing open—Janne enters, frost-covered.
Ella freezes when she sees him.
JANNE Everyone needs to stay inside. And armed.
ELLA Janne—
JANNE (interrupting) Whatever’s out there killed the entire kennel.
The room erupts in shock.
EXT. SATELLITE UPLINK TOWER – NIGHT
Mari and two TECHNICIANS inspect the torn cables.
TECHNICIAN #1 This wasn’t weather.
MARI Then what ripped out a titanium housing…?
A sudden THUD behind them.
They turn.
Nothing.
A second THUD—closer.
Mari raises her flashlight.
A pale shape BLURS past—too fast to see.
MARI (backing up) We need to go. Now.
The technicians grab equipment—something hits them from the dark.
Mari SCREAMS.
CUT TO BLACK.
INT. POLICE STATION – LATER
Ella examines Mari’s damaged radio, found abandoned.
Janne stands nearby.
JANNE I saw tracks out on the sea ice. Like claws. Big ones.
ELLA You think these things came from offshore?
JANNE I think they came from under the ice.
Ella looks up—unconvinced but afraid.
EXT. OUTSKIRTS OF INARI – NIGHT
A lone snowplow clears the road.
The driver hums to himself.
Lights flicker.
He peers out the window.
Something lands on the plow roof with bone-splintering force.
The DRIVER screams as claws punch through the metal.
The plow veers off the road, crashing into a snowbank.
Blood mists the inside of the windows.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – SAFE ROOM – NIGHT
Ella, Janne, and a group of TWELVE SURVIVORS barricade themselves inside.
A faint THUMPING echoes from outside.
TOUR GUIDE What do they want?
JANNE (shaken) To feed.
A tense silence.
Then—SOMETHING SCREAMS outside. A hideous, multi-toned wail.
A voice speaking a harsh, guttural language.
The survivors stare at the door in terror.
ELLA (quietly) Nobody makes a sound.
Fade to darkness.
ACT I — CONTINUED (PAGES 18–28)
EXT. SIIDA MUSEUM – ROOFTOP – NIGHT
Snow blows sideways in heavy gusts. A lone FIGURE moves with unnatural agility across the rooftop.
Its elongated fingers scrape softly against the wood—testing.
A second figure joins it, whispering in a guttural, ancient tongue.
Below, unaware survivors huddle in the safe room.
The two creatures crawl toward the ventilation shaft.
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INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – SAFE ROOM – NIGHT
The faint SCRATCHING above makes Ella look up.
ELLA Everyone stay quiet.
Ailu, the elderly Sami man, closes his eyes and begins humming a soft, trembling yoik under his breath.
Ella turns to him.
ELLA (CONT'D) Ailu…?
AILU (low) Old stories say that things from the northern waters cannot stand certain songs. My grandfather sang them when storms came.
The scratching pauses.
Then resumes—louder.
JANNE We need a better place than this.
ELLA Where? They’ve cut the power. They’ll hit every building eventually.
JANNE There’s a bunker. Old war shelter. About two kilometers through the trees.
A beat.
ELLA We move at dawn.
TOUR GUIDE There is no dawn.
Ella exhales—grim truth.
EXT. POWER SUBSTATION – NIGHT
A lone SECURITY GUARD stumbles out of a half-destroyed building.
He clutches a bleeding arm.
Behind him, something crawls from the shadows—a vampire, slender, serpentine.
It tilts its head, studying him.
The guard runs.
It doesn’t chase.
Instead—it STANDS, looking skyward, sniffing the air.
A pulse of language—guttural clicks.
Three more silhouettes emerge behind it.
CUT TO:
INT. POLICE STATION – STORAGE ROOM – NIGHT
Ella and Janne gear up.
Flare guns. Axes. Knives. Insulated gear.
Ella pulls out a sealed metal case.
Inside: an old bolt-action rifle, meticulously maintained.
She hands it to Janne.
ELLA You kept this in better shape than our marriage.
Janne cracks the slightest smile.
JANNE At least a rifle doesn’t talk back.
ELLA Oh, it will when you shoot it.
An awkward silence. Tension and unresolved grief.
EXT. SNOWFIELD NORTH OF INARI – NIGHT
A snowstorm begins—wind sharp, snow thick.
The vampires move in a strange formation, almost coordinated. Their leader—a TALL, EMACIATED FEMALE with sunken eyes—raises her head.
She opens her mouth—emits a piercing SHRIEK.
The others scatter into the storm.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – SAFE ROOM – LATER
Ella returns.
ELLA We leave in ten minutes. Pack warm, pack light.
People gather what they can.
A young woman, INARI STUDENT, clutches her bag.
STUDENT How many are out there?
Ella looks at the reinforced door—clawed and dented.
ELLA Enough.
She turns away.
EXT. MUSEUM PARKING AREA – NIGHT
The group emerges into the blizzard. Flashlights barely pierce the dense snow.
Janne leads with a hand-held GPS.
JANNE (blowing snow) Stay close! Wind will erase your tracks in seconds!
A deep HOWL echoes.
The group freezes.
ELLA Move!
They plunge into the storm.
Behind them, THREE FIGURES appear faintly in the storm—stalking.
CUT TO BLACK.
ACT I — LATE PAGES (28–40)
EXT. ARCTIC FOREST – NIGHT
The storm howls. Visibility: almost zero.
The survivors trudge in a loose line—shapes barely visible in the brutal wind.
A CRUNCH somewhere to the right.
Ella raises a hand.
ELLA Stop.
Everyone freezes.
A silhouette flickers between trees—too fast.
JANNE They’re testing us.
ELLENI, mid‑50s and trembling, clutches her coat.
ELLENI What do they want from us?
AILU (quiet) Only life. Only warmth.
A SCREAM behind them.
They whirl around—one survivor is gone. Only a blood smear on the snow.
ELLA Move! Double time!
They run. Wind tearing at them.
EXT. TREE LINE – CONTINUOUS
The survivors break from the deep forest into open tundra.
Janne points ahead.
JANNE There! The bunker’s past those rocks!
A vampire lands in front of them—dropping from a tree with impossible grace.
Its joints crack, limbs unfolding like a predatory spider.
The group panics.
ELLA Keep moving!
Janne fires a flare.
The vampire SHRIEKS as the light sears its eyes.
It thrashes blindly as the group sprints past.
EXT. OLD WAR BUNKER – NIGHT
A half-buried concrete structure, covered in frozen moss and snow.
The metal door is rusted but intact.
Janne slams his shoulder against it.
It creaks open.
Everyone rushes inside.
Ella and Janne pull the door shut—just as a vampire SLAMS into it from outside.
The metal dents inward.
ELLA Brace it!
They push a heavy steel bar into place.
The pounding continues… then stops.
Silence.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – MOMENTS LATER
Dim, cold. Old generator parts, dusty rations, empty ammo crates.
People collapse onto the floor, shaking with cold and fear.
Ailu speaks softly.
AILU This place is from the old war. My father brought me here once.
JANNE We can hold out for a few days at most. Maybe a week.
ELLA We need to last a month.
A grim beat.
INT. BUNKER – STORAGE ROOM – LATER
Ella rummages through crates.
Janne enters.
JANNE Anything useful?
ELLA Canned beans. Two blankets. Four bullets.
JANNE We’ll make it work.
Ella stops, tired.
ELLA Janne… why did you really come back early from that patrol?
He hesitates.
JANNE I heard things out there. Saw shapes on the ice. I thought—if something happened—I wanted to be here.
Ella softens.
ELLA We’re not the same people anymore.
JANNE Maybe. But we’re all each other has now.
A quiet moment.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – NIGHT
The survivors sit around a dim lantern.
Ailu begins chanting a low yoik—deep, rhythmic, ancient.
The sound reverberates off the concrete.
Outside, faint SCREECHES respond.
STUDENT They… they hear him.
Ailu continues, eyes distant.
AILU These ones are old. Older than the stories. They lived in the cracks between the sea and the ice. My grandmother said they slept for centuries… waiting for the long dark.
The group listens—horrified, mesmerized.
EXT. BUNKER – OUTSIDE – SAME NIGHT
A cluster of vampires crouches at a distance, watching.
They don’t dare approach the bunker’s reinforced walls.
Their leader creeps forward, sniffing.
She clicks her teeth—issuing commands.
The others disperse into the dark.
She stays, staring at the bunker door.
Waiting.
End of sequence.
ACT II — EARLY PAGES (40–55)
INT. BUNKER – MORNING (PERPETUAL NIGHT)
A dim lantern glows. People sleep in scattered clusters. The sound of distant wind rumbles through the thick concrete.
Ella sits alone, making notes in a weathered notebook—resource counts, ration estimates.
Janne approaches with two steaming cups of instant coffee.
JANNE If we stretch everything, we might get ten days.
ELLA We need thirty.
He sets a cup beside her.
JANNE We’ll figure something out.
She doesn’t answer.
INT. BUNKER – SMALL SIDE ROOM – LATER
Ailu sits cross-legged, humming softly. The young Student watches him.
STUDENT Does the singing help?
AILU It helps me remember I’m not alone.
A beat.
AILU (CONT'D) And it keeps them uneasy.
The Student shifts nervously.
EXT. BUNKER – WOODED RIDGE – SAME TIME
Three vampires crouch by a frozen spruce, watching the bunker.
Their leader arrives—moving like a broken marionette.
She sniffs the air, then points toward Inari.
A guttural order.
The trio disperses into the storm.
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INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – LATER
Ella gathers the survivors.
ELLA We need supplies. Fuel. Food. Medical packs. If the power plant is destroyed, we need ways to heat this place.
GUIDE We can’t go out there—
JANNE We go during whiteouts. They can't track well in heavy storms.
STUDENT But they can hear. They always hear.
Ella looks to Ailu.
ELLA You said your yoik unsettles them.
AILU Only a little. Like smoke in their ears.
ELLA Sometimes a little is enough.
EXT. EDGE OF FOREST – LATER – WHITEOUT
Visibility: almost zero. Snow slams sideways like sand.
Ella, Janne, Ailu, and the Student move through the storm.
Ailu sings a low yoik that blends with the wind.
Ella sweeps her flashlight: nothing but swirling white.
STUDENT (shouting over wind) Is this really working?
A SHADOW darts across their path.
Ailu sings louder.
The shadow retreats into the white.
EXT. OLD MAINTENANCE SHED – CONTINUOUS
They reach a run-down wooden structure half-buried in snow.
Janne forces the door open.
Inside: broken tools, empty shelves.
But in the back—
Fuel cans. Half a dozen.
JANNE We take what we can carry.
A BOOM outside startles everyone.
Ella peers out.
A vampire silhouette stumbles blindly, swaying.
Ailu’s song disorients it.
Ella whispers—
ELLA We move now.
EXT. FOREST CLEARING – MINUTES LATER
The storm weakens.
Ella looks up—concerned.
ELLA Storm’s fading! Move!
They hurry. But the Student slips—fuel cans clatter.
The sound echoes like a gunshot in the stillness.
A distant, answering SCREECH.
JANNE Run!
They sprint through the trees—snow spraying.
Vampires give chase, shadows weaving through the trunks.
EXT. BUNKER – DOOR – CONTINUOUS
Mari (battered but alive—she made it back) stands guard with an axe.
She sees figures approaching.
MARI Come on—come on!
Ella’s group bursts from the treeline.
Three vampires appear behind them, closing fast.
ELLA Open it!
Mari yanks the door open.
Everyone dives inside.
Janne slams the door.
A vampire hits it a split-second later—SNARLING.
The steel bar falls into place.
Silence. Heavy breathing.
Everyone exchanging looks—alive.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – MOMENTS LATER
Mari hugs Ella, trembling.
MARI I thought you were dead…
Ella holds her tightly.
ELLA Not yet.
Janne drops the fuel cans with a dull thud.
JANNE This buys us time.
Ailu sits, exhausted from chanting.
AILU But they’ll learn. They always learn.
The group falls silent.
The distant SCREECHES outside echo through the concrete.
Fade out.
ACT II — MID PAGES (55–70)
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – HOURS LATER
The survivors sit around a dim lantern. Frost creeps along the walls.
Ella studies a hand-drawn map of Inari spread across the floor.
ELLA If they’ve taken out the power station, we’re on borrowed time. Without heat, this bunker will hit subzero in days.
Mari rubs her arms.
MARI It already feels like it.
JANNE There’s another way. The hydroelectric station on Juutuanjoki. It’s old, but if we could get it running—
ELLA We can’t power the whole town. Not from there.
JANNE No. But maybe we can use it to stop them.
Ella looks up sharply.
INT. BUNKER – STORAGE ALCOVE – LATER
Ailu rests against the wall, clutching a carved bone talisman.
Ella kneels beside him.
ELLA You said they’re old. Older than stories. What else do you know?
Ailu exhales.
AILU My grandmother spoke of creatures who lived beneath the northern sea ice. The Ráfiid. They followed currents of darkness. They slept in places where sunlight never touched.
ELLA How do you kill them?
Ailu shakes his head.
AILU You don’t. You endure them.
INT. BUNKER – SIDE ROOM – SAME TIME
The Student organizes supplies.
She finds an old radio transceiver—dusty, cracked.
STUDENT (quietly) If I can fix this… maybe someone will hear us.
As she tinkers, a faint sound emerges from the static:
A distant CLICKING—the same language the vampires speak.
Her eyes widen.
EXT. BUNKER – OUTSIDE – NIGHT
The vampire leader stands at the treeline, eyes reflecting like an animal’s.
She raises her head.
Clicks her teeth rhythmically.
An answering chorus echoes across the frozen forest.
Hundreds.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – NIGHT
The Student bursts in.
STUDENT The radio—they’re using the airwaves! I don’t know how, but I picked up their… language.
Janne frowns.
JANNE They’re coordinating.
ELLA They’re hunting.
A heavy BOOM against the door shakes the room.
Everyone jolts.
A second—louder.
Concrete dust sprinkles down from the ceiling.
GUIDE They found us—they found us!
ELLA Get back! Everyone behind the inner wall!
The pounding intensifies—blow after blow.
INT. BUNKER – INNER CHAMBER – CONTINUOUS
Survivors squeeze into the inner room.
Janne and Ella brace their shoulders against the failing steel door.
Ailu stands at the center of the room, closes his eyes.
And begins chanting.
Not a yoik—something older, deeper.
The vibrations hum through the concrete.
Outside, the pounding falters.
A guttural SCREECH—angry, wounded—echoes.
The door holds.
Ailu collapses.
Ella rushes to him.
ELLA Ailu! Ailu—
He gasps for breath.
AILU They know me now.
EXT. INARI – ABANDONED TOWN CENTER – SAME NIGHT
Vampires move through the streets—more than before.
Silently.
Efficiently.
Some tear apart vehicles. Others rip power lines from poles. One claws through a rooftop to reach a hiding family.
The leader surveys it all with icy calm.
She looks toward the forest.
Toward the bunker.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – LATER
Ella addresses the survivors.
ELLA They’re thinning us out. Destroying anything we could use to survive.
JANNE We can’t wait here to die. We move to the river station. It’s a risk—but it’s something.
MARI We’ll never make it with the whole horde out there.
The Student raises her hand.
STUDENT Maybe we… don’t all have to go.
Everyone turns.
STUDENT (CONT'D) Someone stays. Uses the radio. Sends noise. Feedback. Anything. Draws them away.
Ella shakes her head.
ELLA That’s suicide.
A long silence.
Ailu lifts his talisman.
AILU I will stay. The old ways began with me. They can end with me.
Ella kneels beside him.
ELLA Ailu, no.
AILU (smiles sadly) Child… the world needs the young to live.
The survivors sit in heavy silence.
Fade out.
ACT II — LATE PAGES (70–85)
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – HOURS LATER
Everyone prepares for departure. Backpacks stuffed with rations, blankets, tools.
Ailu sits calmly, humming a soft, rhythmic yoik.
Ella kneels beside him.
ELLA We can find another way. You don’t have to—
AILU (interrupting gently) You lead them. I hold them. That is the way.
Ella swallows hard.
INT. BUNKER – RADIO ROOM – MOMENTS LATER
The Student shows Ailu how the rig works.
STUDENT This dial sends feedback. Loud, sharp. If they’re listening, they’ll follow it.
Ailu nods.
AILU Like moths to fire.
He takes her hand.
AILU (CONT'D) You have a strong heart. Do not let it harden.
She fights tears.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – READYING TO LEAVE
Ella gathers everyone.
ELLA Once we open that door, we move fast. No stops. No noise.
Janne checks his rifle.
JANNE The river station is eight hundred meters north. Forest cover most of the way. Stick to the low paths.
A deep BOOM from outside.
Dust sifts down.
GUIDE They're coming back.
Ella nods to Ailu.
He nods back.
INT. BUNKER – RADIO ROOM – CONTINUOUS
Ailu turns the dial.
A deafening PIERCING FEEDBACK erupts.
The concrete vibrates.
Outside—SCREECHES answer.
Many.
Ailu closes his eyes, keeps the dial turned.
EXT. BUNKER – DOOR – SAME TIME
Ella, Janne, Mari, the Student, the Guide, and remaining survivors push the door open just enough to slip out.
Snow whips past them.
They exit.
Ella glances back one last time.
ELLA (whisper) Thank you.
They vanish into the storm.
EXT. FOREST – NIGHT – CONTINUOUS
The group trudges uphill, staying low.
Behind them—an unearthly chorus of SCREECHES converges toward the bunker.
Mari stops, listening.
MARI They took the bait.
Ella forces everyone forward.
INT. BUNKER – RADIO ROOM – SAME TIME
Ailu chants aloud now, weaving his voice with the feedback.
His hands tremble but remain locked on the controls.
A SHADOW falls across the doorway.
Ailu doesn’t turn.
EXT. FOREST PATH – LATER
Ella’s group moves through the trees. The wind begins to die.
JANNE Storm’s fading. Not good.
ELLA Move faster.
They accelerate.
A heavy CRACK echoes.
Janne freezes.
JANNE Not wind.
A vampire silhouette appears between trees.
Then another.
Ella motions: SILENT.
The creatures sniff the air—confused.
One looks toward the bunker.
Then they bolt away—following the sound.
The group exhales.
INT. BUNKER – RADIO ROOM – SAME TIME
Ailu’s chant slows.
He’s exhausted. Fading.
A vampire enters—tall, pale, gleaming eyes.
Ailu looks up.
AILU In the old days, we sang to keep the dark away. Tonight… I sing to keep it busy.
The vampire tilts its head.
Ailu smiles sadly.
The creature leaps.
The radio shatters.
Static fills the room.
SCREECHES erupt as more creatures swarm in.
CUT TO BLACK.
EXT. RIDGELINE – APPROACH TO RIVER – NIGHT
Ella’s group reaches an overlook.
Below them—shrouded in ice mist—stands the old hydroelectric station.
Dark. Silent. Intact.
STUDENT We’re actually going to make it…
A distant SCREAM echoes—Ailu’s final stand has ended.
Janne looks toward the sound.
JANNE We don’t have much time.
Ella steels herself.
ELLA Let’s finish this.
They descend toward the station.
Fade out.
ACT III — EARLY PAGES (85–95)
EXT. HYDROELECTRIC STATION – NIGHT
The station looms like a frozen fortress. Thick ice coats the rails and walls. The river beneath is sealed under a solid sheet of white.
Ella signals the group forward.
ELLA Stay low. No noise.
They creep along the exterior walkway.
A loose sheet of corrugated metal flaps violently in the wind—CLANG. CLANG.
Everyone freezes.
Janne slowly presses the metal down with his boot.
The sound stops.
They continue.
EXT. STATION ROOFTOP – CONTINUOUS
A vampire crouches above them, perched like a monstrous owl.
Its eyes track their movements.
It opens its mouth—silent at first—then a SHRILL WARNING SCREECH—
But before the sound escapes—
THWIP!
A flare bolt from Ella’s gun hits it square in the face.
The creature tumbles off the roof, hissing and burning.
ELLA Move!
The group rushes inside.
INT. HYDRO STATION – MAIN FLOOR – NIGHT
Rusting turbines. Broken gauges. A massive control panel coated in dust.
The Guide looks around.
GUIDE This place is dead. Has been for years.
Janne kneels by an old maintenance hatch.
JANNE Not everything.
He pulls the hatch—revealing the pressure-line valves that feed into the main spillway.
JANNE (CONT’D) If we purge the build-up and overload the pumps…
STUDENT …we turn the whole river under the ice into a pressure bomb.
JANNE Exactly.
Ella stares at the turbine chamber.
ELLA And the vampires won’t know what hit them.
INT. CONTROL ROOM – MOMENTS LATER
Lights flicker dimly as the Student rewires broken circuits.
STUDENT If I can get the auxiliary grid working, we might be able to force the turbines to cycle once.
Mari stands guard at the doorway, axe ready.
MARI Work fast.
The Student sparks two wires together—the lights BLAST on, then dim to a weak glow.
STUDENT Yes… yes… come on…
A deep hum begins.
The turbines groan awake.
Janne grins.
JANNE We’ve got power.
EXT. FOREST NEAR RIVER – SAME TIME
The vampire leader arrives with dozens behind her.
She raises her head—listening.
The faint vibration of the hydro station reaches her.
She HISSES.
And the horde charges.
INT. TURBINE CHAMBER – NIGHT
Ella and Janne manually crank open the pressure lines.
A deep metallic GROAN fills the chamber.
JANNE Once these valves lock, we’ll have five minutes—maybe—to get out.
ELLA Plenty of time.
They share a look—both knowing it’s a lie.
INT. CONTROL ROOM – SAME TIME
The Student watches the pressure gauges rise.
STUDENT Come on… come on… don’t break…
A loud, sudden THUD against the bolted door.
Mari jumps.
MARI They’re here!
The door buckles.
INT. HALLWAY – CONTINUOUS
Ella and Janne race back toward the control room.
A vampire drops from a ceiling pipe—
Janne tackles it, slamming it into the wall.
JANNE Go!
Ella hesitates.
JANNE (CONT’D) GO!
Ella runs.
Janne grapples with the creature—its claws tearing at his coat.
He drives a broken metal pipe through its chest.
It collapses.
Janne limps after Ella.
INT. CONTROL ROOM – CONTINUOUS
The door finally CRACKS inward.
Vampire hands claw through.
Ella bursts into the room.
ELLA We’re out of time!
STUDENT Pressure’s almost there—just need another thirty seconds!
ELLA We don’t have thirty seconds!
The GUIDE screams as claws grab him through the doorway.
Ella pulls him back, but the creature yanks harder—
With a sickening jerk, the Guide is dragged out through the cracking door.
Mari swings her axe and cleaves a vampire arm clean off.
MARI They’re pouring in! We have to go!
The pressure gauge hits MAXIMUM.
STUDENT It’s ready! It’s ready! GO!!
Ella grabs her arm and pulls—
They flee down the service corridor.
Behind them, the door EXPLODES inward as the horde floods the room.
Fade to darkness.
ACT III — CLIMAX (95–105)
INT. SERVICE CORRIDOR – NIGHT
Alarms blare. Red emergency lights flash.
Ella, Janne, Mari, and the Student sprint through the icy corridor.
Behind them: the THUNDER of dozens of vampires tearing through metal and concrete.
STUDENT The valves are locked—pressure will blow the river any minute!
ELLA Then we need to be out of the blast zone!
They skid around a corner—snow dust blowing through broken windows.
INT. LOWER EXIT TUNNEL – CONTINUOUS
A narrow, descending passage that opens onto the frozen river.
Janne slows—favoring his leg.
ELLA Janne—come on!
JANNE Go—I’ll catch up.
Ella hesitates.
Mari grabs her arm.
MARI We lose all of us if we wait!
Ella forces herself down the tunnel.
Janne limps after them.
EXT. FROZEN RIVER – NIGHT
The survivors burst out onto the ice.
The river is a vast white sheet stretching into darkness.
The hydro station looms behind them—lights flickering wildly.
STUDENT We need to get at least fifty meters! The blast will travel under the ice!
They run.
The wind howls.
Then—a CRACK.
Ella looks back.
Dozens of vampires pour from the station, sprinting across the ice toward them—feral, tireless.
ELLA Faster!!
EXT. FROZEN RIVER – MIDWAY
The ice beneath their feet shifts.
A low, distant RUMBLE rises from deep below.
Mari stumbles.
Ella grabs her.
A SCREECH comes from behind.
Vampires are closing the distance.
Janne forces himself forward, bleeding, limping.
JANNE Keep going!
EXT. RIVER — 50 METERS FROM SHORE
The Student checks the pressure meter she hauled out.
STUDENT It’s going to blow! Any second now!
The vampires are almost on top of Janne.
Ella turns back.
ELLA JANNE!!
A massive CRACK splits the ice.
Under it: churning, steaming water.
EXT. FROZEN RIVER – CENTER
Janne stops.
He turns to face the horde.
Breathing hard.
Bleeding.
But alive.
He raises the flare gun Ella gave him.
Smiles faintly.
JANNE Come on, then.
He fires the flare straight into the oncoming mass.
Light BLOOMS across the ice.
The vampires recoil—
BOOOOOOOM!!!
The river ERUPTS.
A geyser of superheated pressure-water blasts upward, SHATTERING the ice for hundreds of meters.
The vampires are launched into the air—torn apart, hurled screaming into the freezing night.
The shockwave hits Janne—
He’s consumed by steam and white fire.
Ella screams as the blast races toward her group.
EXT. RIVERBANK – CONTINUOUS
Ella, Mari, and the Student dive behind a snowbank.
The explosion WIPES across the river, sending shards of ice the size of cars flying.
Steam roars.
Silence follows.
Only the wind.
Ella lifts her head—covered in frost and ice.
The river is gone.
A massive, smoking crater has replaced it.
No vampires remain in sight.
No sign of Janne.
Ella collapses to her knees.
Fade out.
ACT III — ENDING (105–110)
EXT. RIVERBANK – MINUTES LATER
Snow drifts fall gently now, soft and quiet. Steam rises from the shattered riverbed.
Ella, Mari, and the Student stand slowly—disoriented, shaking.
Mari stares at the crater.
MARI It’s over…
Ella doesn’t answer. Her eyes scan the devastation.
No movement.
No shapes.
Just silence.
EXT. DESTROYED HYDROELECTRIC STATION – NIGHT
They climb back toward the station.
What remains is a twisted carcass of steel and ice.
STUDENT Do you think any—
A faint, distant SCREECH echoes from the forest.
They freeze.
A second screech—farther away. Weak.
MARI Some of them… survived.
Ella tightens her grip on her flare gun.
ELLA Then we keep moving.
EXT. FOREST EDGE – PRE-DAWN DARKNESS
The sky begins to shift—just barely.
A faint, almost imperceptible glow on the horizon.
The first hint of morning after nearly a month.
The Student stares.
STUDENT Is that…?
Ella nods.
ELLA The sun.
They keep walking.
EXT. HILL OVERLOOKING INARI – DAWN
They reach a high ridge.
Below them, Inari is silent.
Snow-covered. Frozen. Lifeless.
But as the horizon brightens, colors return—blue, then gold.
Ella steps forward, breath catching.
Mari places a hand on her shoulder.
MARI We made it.
Ella wipes her eyes.
ELLA Some of us.
The first beam of sunlight breaks the horizon.
They shield their eyes.
A faint movement on the far side of the lake.
A lone figure.
One surviving vampire, badly burned, limping toward the Arctic Ocean.
It hesitates—glances back at the rising sun.
And disappears into the tree line.
Ella exhales.
ELLA It’s leaving.
STUDENT Will it come back?
Ella watches the horizon.
ELLA Not while the sun’s up.
The warmth grows.
Light spreads across the snow.
Ella closes her eyes.
EXT. HILLTOP – CONTINUOUS
The three survivors stand embraced by the first dawn in weeks.
ELLA (V.O.) We survived the long night.
A pause.
ELLA (V.O.) (CONT’D) But the dark always remembers.
The sun rises fully above the horizon.
FADE OUT.
THE END
2nd draft story
TITLE: 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: INARI DRAFT: SECOND DRAFT
WRITTEN BY: [Kalifornia Jani - Jani Apukka]
FADE IN:
EXT. ARCTIC OCEAN – NIGHT
A vast sheet of BLACK ICE stretching into nothing. Above: a star-choked sky and the faint shimmer of aurora.
WIND HOWLS, carrying tiny knives of snow.
A LONE RANGER on skis, tethered to a small CARGO SLED, cuts across the ice.
This is JANNE KORHONEN (35)—stocky, bearded, layered in worn arctic gear. His breath plumes in the frigid air.
He stops.
The wind drops as if someone turned a dial.
Somewhere in the dark: a faint, unnerving CLICK-CLICK-CLICK, like teeth on glass.
Janne lifts his HEADLAMP. The beam skims across lumpy ice and shallow snowdrifts, revealing:
— DEEP PARALLEL GOUGES in the ice. Four claws, almost evenly spaced.
He kneels, gloved hand hovering over the marks.
JANNE (under his breath) Not a bear.
Beneath him, the ice CREAKS—long and tired.
He straightens, pulling the sled rope.
As he pushes forward—
A SHADOW glides across the ice a hundred meters away. Too FAST. Too LOW.
Janne whirls his lamp toward it. Nothing but blowing snow.
He clicks on his RADIO.
JANNE (CONT'D) (into radio) Base, this is Korhonen. Got something weird on the pack ice, about six clicks north of Inari buoy line. Tracks I don't like.
Only STATIC answers.
He taps the radio, frowns.
JANNE (CONT'D) Of course.
He turns toward the faint glow of land on the horizon.
He starts skiing faster.
SMASH CUT TO:
EXT. INARI MUNICIPALITY – LAST DAYLIGHT – EVENING
AERIAL over INARI, a remote Finnish town tucked between dark forests and the wide white sheet of LAKE INARI.
The LAST RED SLIVER OF SUN brushes the horizon.
Snowmobiles buzz. HUSKIES bark. Locals rush to finish chores before the polar night.
SUPER: "INARI, FINLAND — POPULATION 6,800" SUPER: "LAST SUNSET OF THE YEAR"
INT. POLICE STATION – EVENING
A cramped, cluttered station. Posters on avalanche safety and reindeer traffic.
SHERIFF ELLA RANTANEN (34), Finnish-Sami, watches a small television showing the setting sun over Rovaniemi.
She clicks it OFF.
Ella's calm face hides exhaustion. A half-drunk coffee goes cold on her desk.
She checks a KAAMOS PREP LIST on the wall: FUEL, GENERATORS, MEDICAL KITS, SATELLITE UPLINK, KENNELS, ELDERLY CHECKS.
MARI VUOMA (28), her deputy, scribbles notes at another desk, stamping forms.
MARI That's the last of the generator permits. If the tourists burn this place down it's on them.
ELLA It'll be fine. They're too busy trying to photograph darkness.
A soft BUZZ from the communications rack.
Ella frowns, crosses to the SATELLITE UPLINK CONSOLE.
The STATUS light flickers from GREEN to YELLOW.
ELLA (CONT'D) No. Not tonight.
She taps the casing. The light stabilises—green again.
MARI Please tell me that's not dropping. My mother has three different WhatsApp groups.
ELLA If it goes down, she can come complain in person.
They share a tiny smile.
Ella glances at a PHOTO on her desk: her and Janne years ago, younger, laughing, framed by northern lights.
She turns it face-down.
EXT. HUSKY KENNEL – DUSK
A modest cluster of wooden HUSKY HOUSES and fenced runs beside a low red building.
Snow swirls in rising wind.
HUSKIES pace, agitated. They sense the disappearing light.
NILSA (40s), kennel owner, tosses extra straw into houses.
A LEAD DOG, NUKKA, stares past the fence toward the TREELINE.
POV NUKKA: The forest is a wall of black trunks, the gaps between them turning to pure shadow.
The last shred of sunlight bleeds away.
The world slips into BLUE.
NUKKA WHINES.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – AUDITORIUM – EVENING
Locals gather for a "KAAMOS SAFETY" meeting inside the SIIDA MUSEUM.
Posters of Sami history and Arctic wildlife line the walls.
Ella stands on stage with a mic.
On a slide behind her: "30 DAYS WITHOUT SUN: PREPAREDNESS".
ELLA —so check on your neighbors, especially elders, and keep to the main roads if you have to be out at all. No solo ski trips, no late-night lake walks for Instagram.
Mild laughter.
In the crowd: AILU SIIRALA (72), a Sami elder with a thick white beard and warm, sharp eyes.
Also in the back—two TOURISTS whisper, bored.
TOURIST #1 (in English) Come on, it's just night. How bad can it be?
Ailu hears, faint smile.
Ella finishes.
ELLA (CONT'D) Any questions before we all go enjoy the last sunset we're going to see for a month?
A hand rises—SAKARI (48), a local wilderness guide.
SAKARI You got any update on that trawler they say's drifting in on the ice?
Ella blinks.
ELLA What trawler?
Murmurs ripple.
EXT. EDGE OF LAKE INARI – NIGHT
The sun is gone. The sky is DEEP BLUE-BLACK.
A derelict FISHING TRAWLER is locked into the forming lake ice near shore, hull grating softly.
A POLICE SNOWMOBILE pulls up: Ella and Mari dismount.
MARI Well, that's not ominous at all.
They climb aboard.
The deck is scarred, metal peeled back as if by giant claws. No sign of life.
Ella pushes open the cabin door.
INSIDE: instruments smashed, radio ripped from the wall, a smear of FROZEN BLOOD.
She picks up a LOGBOOK off the floor.
Flips to the last entry:
SCRAWLED FINNISH: "They came from the water."
Ella's breath fogs the page.
MARI (O.S.) Ella.
She turns.
Mari is kneeling by a shape in the corner—a FISHERMAN, half-frozen, skin blue, eyes wild.
They rush over.
ELLA Get him on his side.
The Fisherman grabs Ella's sleeve with shocking strength.
FISHERMAN (weak, terrified) Ne eivät ole ihmisiä... (They are not human...)
His grip loosens. He goes still.
Ella looks to Mari.
The wind outside rises, carrying a distant, thin SCREECH across the ice.
EXT. ARCTIC OCEAN – SAME TIME
BACK ON THE SEA ICE—
Cracks snake outward across the black surface.
From the darkness below, pale fingers push through.
A GAUNT, HAIRLESS HEAD emerges, eyes like polished obsidian, reflecting the stars.
Then another.
They climb out in silence, water steaming off their bodies in the frigid air.
An ancient, guttural LANGUAGE clicks between them.
They sniff the air—scents carried from land.
They begin moving toward the faint glow of Inari.
CUT TO BLACK.
ACT I – ESCALATION
EXT. INARI FISHING DOCKS – NIGHT
A low moan of wind moves across the empty docks. Boats sway softly against frozen ropes. The world has shifted from blue dusk to full polar night.
Ella and Mari ride in on their snowmobile, stopping beside a cluster of darkened sheds.
MARI This is the third call tonight.
ELLA People always panic when the sun disappears.
They approach a shed with its door swinging open.
Inside: overturned crates, scattered gear, snow blown in.
No people.
Ella crouches, noticing bloody drag marks leading out the back.
She shines her flashlight into the dark.
ELLA (CONT’D) (low) Mari… call it in.
MARI To who? Tower’s unstable.
Ella doesn’t answer. She follows the marks to—
A TRAIL that simply stops.
As if the person was lifted straight off the ground.
A faint clicking echoes from the treeline.
Ella stiffens.
EXT. INARI – MAIN ROAD – NIGHT
Janne skis into town, pulling his cargo sled behind him. His headlamp flickers.
He approaches the police station just as the front lights short out.
JANNE Of course.
He steps inside.
INT. POLICE STATION – NIGHT
Mari enters a moment later, brushing off snow.
She stops when she sees Janne.
MARI Oh. You’re back.
Ella enters from the rear hallway. She freezes.
Janne meets her eyes. A heavy silence.
JANNE Ella.
ELLA You could’ve called.
JANNE Your tower’s down.
Ella’s expression darkens. She gestures to a map.
ELLA You said you found tracks.
Janne leans over the map.
JANNE Not tracks. Claw gouges. Deep ones. Crossing the ice shelf.
Mari laughs nervously.
MARI Like… what? A wolverine on steroids?
Janne doesn’t smile.
JANNE I’ve never seen anything move like the thing I saw tonight.
Ella studies him — he’s shaken, more than he admits.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – LATE NIGHT
The museum is quiet. Ailu rearranges talismans in a display case.
He pauses.
A faint song of ice shifting hums beneath the floorboards.
He places a hand on the wooden frame.
AILU (whispers) They’re moving.
EXT. HUSKY KENNEL – SAME NIGHT
The dogs bark wildly now. NUKKA growls, fur raised.
Nilsa steps outside with a lantern.
NILSA Easy, easy—
A SHAPE darts past the kennel fence.
Nilsa spins.
Nothing.
She raises the lantern.
Two BLACK EYES reflect the flame.
A pale figure crouches in the snow.
Before Nilsa can scream—
It’s on her.
The lantern flies. The dogs howl.
INT. POLICE STATION – CONTINUOUS
The station lights flicker violently.
CRACK.
Everything goes dark.
Ella grabs her coat.
ELLA Mari — kennel, now.
Janne steps forward.
JANNE I’m coming.
Ella hesitates.
ELLA Fine. Move.
They rush into the storm.
*(From here, the second draft continues with more focused character arcs, tightened pacing, and clearer set pieces. Major beats include:)
Janne returns from the ice, reports impossible tracks; his warning is brushed off as exhaustion and stress.
The satellite tower fails—we see vampires sabotage the uplink, cutting Inari off from the world.
The husky kennel attack: our first full-scale assault, seen mainly from the dogs' terrified POV and Nilsa's brief, brutal death.
First disappearances: a reindeer herder, a pair of students at a research station; Ella struggles to treat it like normal police work even as evidence says otherwise.
Ella and Janne's reunion: tension, old wounds, but they must cooperate as the situation worsens.
Ailu shares the old stories of the Ráfiid—creatures that live in the cracks between sea and ice, hunting in the long dark.
Siege on the town: power outages, screams in the dark, vampires moving with frightening coordination.
Surviving townsfolk are shepherded into the Siida Museum, which becomes a temporary stronghold.
After a catastrophic breach, Ella leads a smaller group—Ella, Janne, Mari, Ailu, the Student (EMMI), Sakari, and a few others—to the old war bunker in the forest.
ACT II – SURVIVAL & PLAN (SECOND DRAFT STRUCTURE)
Key changes from first draft:
More emphasis on limited resources and the psychological grind of the polar night.
Stronger through-line of Ella vs. the dark: she is secretly prone to seasonal depression and fears losing herself in the month-long night.
Janne’s guilt about ignoring early signs on the ice becomes a constant wedge between them.
The vampires are shown to be learning: adapting to yoik, testing defenses, destroying anything that creates light or sound.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – "MORNING" (PERPETUAL NIGHT)
A detailed scene where the survivors assess supplies, argue about whether to flee south on snowmobiles, and ultimately decide they can’t outrun creatures that don't tire and see perfectly in the dark.
Ailu demonstrates that certain yoik patterns cause discomfort to the creatures—enough to buy seconds, not victory. His singing becomes both a weapon and a spiritual anchor.
EXT. FOREST / VARIOUS – WHITEOUT RUNS
A set-piece sequence where Ella leads high-risk sorties in whiteout conditions to collect fuel, food, and batteries, using Ailu’s yoik to disorient nearby vampires.
We intercut with:
Vampires stalking just out of sight.
Emmi tinkering with an old radio, accidentally picking up fragments of the vampires' clicking language.
Mari's growing trauma, showing early signs of panic attacks that she hides behind sarcasm.
INT. BUNKER – NIGHT
Emmi reveals that the creatures coordinate at range, using patterns of clicks that travel unnaturally far—part sonar, part language.
This leads to the second-draft plot engine:
If sound can call them together, maybe sound can pull them away.
Ailu volunteers to stay behind with the jury-rigged radio to act as bait, using feedback and yoik to draw the horde while the others attempt a desperate move to the Juutuanjoki hydroelectric station.
He and Ella share a more intimate conversation than in Draft 1: Ailu speaks about his own youth facing the erasure of Sami culture, drawing a parallel between "things that live in the dark" and historical forces.
EXT. BUNKER / FOREST – DEPARTURE SEQUENCE
A more emotionally loaded goodbye: Mari, who sees Ailu as a surrogate grandfather, almost refuses to leave; he has to gently push her away.
Ailu’s sacrifice is cross-cut with the group's stealthy journey through the forest as the horde peels away from them toward the sound.
We linger longer on Ailu’s final moments: he doesn't just die quickly; he holds them as long as he can, singing until his voice breaks.
ACT III – HYDRO STATION & FINAL DAWN (SECOND DRAFT)
EXT. HYDROELECTRIC STATION – ESTABLISHING
We emphasize its imposing architecture and the frozen river. Ella and Janne debate whether this plan is madness.
Janne reveals he once considered transferring south, leaving Inari entirely; he stayed because of Ella. This gives his later sacrifice extra weight.
INT. CONTROL ROOM / TURBINE HALL – REVISED CLIMAX
Instead of a simple "turn on the valves" sequence, the second draft adds:
A time pressure layer: the old dam has frozen mechanisms; Emmi must thaw critical components with improvised heaters, making noise and light that start drawing remaining vampires.
A moral dilemma: to get full pressure, they must route overflow through a channel that will obliterate part of the forest and possibly flood a Sami sacred site Ailu once showed Ella. She chooses to do it, haunted by the choice.
The final river explosion is more staggered: first small cracks, then blasts, then the catastrophic rupture, allowing for more interaction with the creatures on the ice.
JANNE'S SACRIFICE – 2ND DRAFT CHANGE
Janne doesn't simply wait on the ice. He consciously turns back mid-escape, seeing that the vampires will reach the others before the pressure peak.
He uses a combination of flare, rifle fire, and his own body as bait, leading the majority of the horde onto the weakest ice directly over the pressure vein.
He has a brief last radio exchange with Ella—full of subtext, not on-the-nose apologies—before the line dies in the blast.
EXT. RIVERBANK – AFTERMATH
The devastation is wider. We show bodies of vampires half-embedded in rapidly refreezing ice, some still twitching before stiffening.
One badly burned vampire crawls away toward the trees—we track it, establishing the survivor that retreats north.
EXT. RIDGE ABOVE INARI – FIRST SUNRISE
We redo the final scene with more emotional closure:
Ella, Mari, and Emmi argue briefly about whether to go back down into Inari or head south to find help.
Ella insists they must return, not just to search for other survivors but to bear witness and control the narrative of what happened before authorities arrive.
The sun finally breaks the horizon. We hold on Ella’s face as warm light hits it—her first unforced smile in the film, mixed with grief.
We end on her looking north, toward where the surviving vampire fled, rather than toward the sunrise.
ELLA (V.O.) In the dark, you learn what the light never showed you.
Beat.
ELLA (V.O.) (CONT'D) And you learn what still waits where the light can't reach.
She turns back toward the ruins of Inari.
FADE OUT.
THE END – SECOND DRAFT
EXT. HUSKY KENNEL – NIGHT
Snow blows violently across the yard. The kennel building stands half-lit, one light flickering.
Ella, Mari, and Janne rush in, headlamps slicing through the dark.
The dogs are in a frenzy — barking, pulling chains, slamming against wooden walls.
MARI Oh no…
The main kennel door hangs open, hinges twisted.
Ella steps inside.
INT. HUSKY KENNEL – CONTINUOUS
Blood streaks the straw floor.
Nilsa’s lantern lies cracked.
A SHAPE lies slumped in the corner.
Ella kneels — it’s Nilsa, throat torn open, eyes frozen wide.
Mari gasps, stumbling back.
Janne sweeps his beam across the wall — long claw marks gouged deep into the wood.
JANNE This wasn’t an animal.
A low GROWL echoes from outside.
Ella snaps up.
ELLA Lights out. Now.
They click their headlamps off.
Silence… except for the wind.
A SHADOW passes outside the broken doorway.
A soft click-click-click of teeth.
Mari’s hand trembles around her pistol.
Ella motions: do not shoot.
The shadow lingers.
Then SLIPS away into the night.
EXT. HUSKY KENNEL – MOMENTS LATER
Ella, Janne, and Mari emerge slowly.
The dogs have gone silent — uncanny, unnatural.
Ella scans the treeline.
ELLA Whatever that was, it’s still close.
Janne steps beside her.
JANNE It followed me from the ocean.
Ella turns sharply.
ELLA You said you saw something.
JANNE I didn’t want to sound insane.
Mari points to the trees.
MARI Guys…
Two BLACK EYES glow faintly between branches.
Ella pulls Mari back.
ELLA Into the snowmobile. Go.
The three sprint.
EXT. ROAD TO INARI – CONTINUOUS
The snowmobile ROARS through the night, headlights carving a narrow path.
Ella drives. Janne clings behind her. Mari looks back — terrified.
The forest seems to MOVE with them.
Something FAST keeps pace, leaping through the trees.
MARI It’s following! Faster faster faster—
Ella pushes the throttle.
The engine whines.
A pale SHAPE bursts onto the road — then vanishes again.
JANNE It’s herding us!
ELLA To where?
No answer.
EXT. INARI – TOWN CENTER – NIGHT
They skid into the square, stopping beside the museum.
The creature does not follow.
Silence returns.
Mari nearly collapses.
MARI What the hell was that?
Ella stares toward the forest.
ELLA Something we’re not prepared for.
Suddenly—
BOOM — a massive electrical POP.
All lights in town go DEAD.
Complete darkness.
A faint SCREECH ripples across the rooftops.
Ella whispers:
ELLA (CONT’D) They just cut our power.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – MINUTES LATER
Ella, Mari, and Janne burst inside, slamming the door.
Ailu and several LOCALS look up from lanterns.
AILU What chases you?
Ella wipes sweat from her brow.
ELLA Something from the lake. Something that killed Nilsa.
Gasps.
Janne adds:
JANNE They move like—like nothing I’ve ever tracked.
Ailu nods slowly.
AILU The old stories spoke of hunters from the dark water.
Ella stiffens.
ELLA Stories won’t help us right now.
Ailu looks at her — sad, knowing.
AILU Sometimes they are the only thing that does.
Suddenly—
A LOUD THUD hits the museum roof.
Everyone freezes.
Another.
Then scraping claws.
Ella slowly turns off her lantern.
ELLA Get to the inner hall. Now.
People shuffle silently through the dark.
Above: the creature CRAWLS across the roof.
The faint clicking grows louder.
It stops directly overhead.
Ailu closes his eyes.
He hums a soft, trembling yoik.
A pause.
The clicking falters.
Then the creature LEAPS away into the night.
Ella exhales.
ELLA Okay. Everyone stays here until I say otherwise.
The entire building shakes as something DISTANT SCREECHES.
Ailu murmurs:
AILU The night has only begun.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – INNER HALL – NIGHT
A cluster of lanterns glow dimly. Families huddle together, terrified. Snow taps softly at the windows.
Ella walks the perimeter, checking every exit.
Mari sits beside Emmi (22), the student researcher, who is clutching a broken radio.
MARI You alright?
EMMI (staring at radio) If I can get this working, maybe… maybe someone outside can hear us.
MARI Yeah. Or maybe those things will.
Emmi swallows hard.
EXT. INARI – VARIOUS LOCATIONS – SAME NIGHT
A montage of INARI falling under the creatures:
— A lone SNOWMOBILER on a back road is yanked off his sled. — A small house goes dark, figures moving behind curtains… then silence. — A reindeer herd scatters in panic as pale silhouettes dart among them.
The attacks are swift, silent, coordinated.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – MAIN ATRIUM – LATER
Ailu sits on a bench, laying out small carved ANTLER TALISMANS.
Ella approaches.
ELLA Why do you keep doing that?
AILU For protection.
ELLA Against what? Stories?
Ailu gives her a sad smile.
AILU Every story came from something real.
Before Ella can reply—
BANG!
The entire front door BUCKLES inward.
Screams.
Ella draws her gun.
ELLA Get everyone to the back! Now!
Ailu rises slowly.
The door slams again — a visible DENT forming.
A sharp clicking echoes from outside.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – STORAGE CORRIDOR – CONTINUOUS
People flee into narrow hallways.
Mari herds children into a side room.
Emmi drags her radio with her.
Janne grabs Ella’s arm.
JANNE We can’t hold this building.
ELLA I know.
JANNE Then we need to move. The bunker.
Ella hesitates.
ELLA If we leave now, anyone hiding in town dies alone.
JANNE They’ll die if you stay too.
Another THUNDEROUS IMPACT shakes the walls.
Ella flinches.
Finally — she nods.
ELLA Alright. We move.
INT. SIIDA MUSEUM – MAIN ATRIUM – CONTINUOUS
The creatures' claws pierce through cracks in the wood.
Lanterns flicker.
Ailu begins humming a slow, trembling yoik.
The creatures SHRIEK outside — the sound disrupted by the vibration.
The pounding becomes erratic.
Ella leans close to him.
ELLA Whatever you’re doing — keep doing it.
AILU (breathing hard) It is only a delay.
EXT. SIIDA MUSEUM – BACK EXIT – MINUTES LATER
Ella leads a group of 20 SURVIVORS out the rear door.
Snowflakes swirl like dust in a spotlight.
Everyone moves in near-silence.
Janne signals: all clear.
They hurry toward the tree line.
Behind them — the museum doors finally SHATTER.
Creatures swarm inside.
MARI (whispers) Go. Go!
EXT. FOREST PATH – NIGHT
They trek through dense snow, the faint glow of lanterns tucked under coats.
A distant SCREECH echoes.
Emmi stumbles; Janne catches her.
JANNE Easy.
EMMI (small, trembling) Why are they doing this?
JANNE Because we’re warm. Because we’re alive.
Up ahead, Ella comes to an abrupt stop.
On the ground before her:
A dead reindeer, throat torn out.
Steam rises from the fresh kill.
Tracks lead into the darkness—then vanish abruptly.
Ailu whispers:
AILU They walk on the trees when they wish.
Mari shivers.
MARI Great.
ELLA Keep moving.
They press on.
EXT. FOREST – LATER
The group reaches a ridge overlooking a narrow frozen ravine.
The wind has died—too suddenly.
Ella raises a fist: stop.
The survivors huddle close.
A faint crackling echoes — like ice fracturing.
But the ground is still.
The sound grows louder.
Close.
Then —
A pale creature CRAWLS up the side of the ravine wall, movements unnatural.
Gasps ripple.
Ella raises a hand: stay perfectly still.
The creature lifts its head, sniffing.
Its eyes reflect lantern light.
It clicks its teeth.
And vanishes into the dark.
Emmi lets out the breath she was holding.
EMMI Please tell me that was the only one.
A distant CHORUS of clicks answers.
Ailu closes his eyes.
AILU No.
EXT. FOREST – APPROACH TO BUNKER – NIGHT
The old WAR BUNKER appears through the trees — half-buried in snow, metal door frosted over.
Ella signals the group forward.
Janne rushes ahead, wrenching at the frozen lock.
JANNE Come on… come on…!
The clicking SOUND rises behind them.
The horde is close.
Ella draws her pistol.
ELLA Janne!
Janne slams his shoulder into the door — it CREAKS open.
Ella shoves survivors inside.
Mari fires a flare into the trees — BRIGHT LIGHT washes over the forest.
The creatures SHRIEK in pain.
MARI Move!!
Everyone dives inside.
Ella and Janne pull the door shut just as three pale hands SLAM against it.
CLAW MARKS scrape across the metal.
The door holds.
Darkness.
Silence.
Ella leans her head against the cold steel.
ELLA We made it.
Ailu murmurs:
AILU For tonight.
ACT II – FULL EXPANSION
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – NIGHT
The survivors huddle together in the dim bunker. Frost creeps along the concrete walls. The lantern’s flame flickers low.
Ella does a headcount.
ELLA We lost at least six on the way.
Mari sits heavily beside a crate, shaking.
MARI We’re not built for this. Not against… whatever those are.
Ailu rummages in his bag, pulling out carved bone pieces.
AILU We must be quiet now. They will search.
Janne walks the perimeter, checking rusted vents.
JANNE If they smell us… they’ll wait. They’ll dig. Or tear the roof off.
Ella nods grimly.
ELLA Then we don’t let them smell us.
INT. BUNKER – STORAGE ROOM – LATER
Ella and Janne rummage through old supplies.
Ella finds only three cans of beans.
ELLA Three cans. For twenty people.
JANNE We’ll ration.
ELLA Ration? For a month of darkness?
She slams the crate shut.
JANNE We’ll find more. Tomorrow. In a storm.
Ella sighs deeply, leaning against a shelf.
ELLA We can’t keep doing this.
Janne studies her.
JANNE You don’t have to carry everything alone.
Ella snaps:
ELLA Then why did you leave me to do it?
Silence.
Janne swallows hard.
JANNE I thought you didn’t want me here.
Ella looks away.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – SAME TIME
Mari teaches Emmi how to reload a rifle.
MARI Finger off the trigger. You’ll blow my face off.
EMMI Sorry—sorry, I’ve never—
MARI Welcome to Inari. Population: terrified.
A distant THUD echoes through the bunker.
Everyone freezes.
Another.
Ailu closes his eyes.
AILU They found us.
INT. BUNKER – INNER CORRIDOR – MOMENTS LATER
Ella extinguishes lanterns.
ELLA Everyone back from the walls. Quiet.
The pounding continues — something testing the metal door.
Emmi squeezes Mari’s hand.
EMMI They can’t get through… right?
MARI (small) Hopefully.
Ailu begins humming a yoik, low and rhythmic.
JANNE Is that helping?
AILU It unsettles them. Confuses their ears.
Outside, the pounding falters.
The clicking declines.
The creatures retreat.
Silence.
Mari exhales shakily.
MARI Thank God…
Ailu whispers:
AILU Not God. Sound.
INT. BUNKER – LATER
Emmi tinkers with the broken radio rig, listening to static.
Mari sits beside her.
MARI You really think you can get this thing working?
EMMI If I can stabilize the frequency… maybe.
She adjusts the dials.
Suddenly — STATIC CLEARS.
A rhythmic click-click-click pulses through the speakers.
Not random.
Structured.
Emmi’s eyes widen.
EMMI It’s them.
MARI (turns pale) Turn it off!
Emmi fumbles the switch.
The clicking stops.
Ella and Janne rush in.
ELLA What happened?
Emmi points to the radio.
EMMI They’re using the airwaves. Like… sonar. Or communication.
Janne exhales sharply.
JANNE They’re coordinated.
Ella rubs her temples.
ELLA We can’t wait this out.
Ailu steps forward.
AILU There is a way. A dangerous way.
Everyone turns.
AILU (CONT’D) We use the radio. Not to call for help… but to call them.
Gasps.
ELLA You want to bring them here?
AILU Not here. Not all of us.
He holds Ella’s gaze.
AILU (CONT’D) Someone stays behind. Draws them away. So others may flee.
Ella’s breath catches.
ELLA Ailu… no.
He gives her a sad, warm smile.
AILU The old ways end with me. Let yours continue.
Mari steps back, shaking her head.
MARI You can’t. You can’t do that—
Ailu places a hand on her shoulder.
AILU Child. I have lived many winters. You must live many more.
Ella turns away, blinking tears.
EXT. BUNKER – PREPARATIONS – NIGHT
The storm has risen — total whiteout.
Ella organizes remaining supplies.
ELLA Fuel. Blankets. Ammo. Enough for a run.
Janne nods.
JANNE The hydro station is our best shot. If we can overload the pumps—
ELLA We can kill them.
Mari loads her rifle.
MARI Or die trying.
Ella touches her shoulder.
ELLA Preferably not.
Emmi hands Ailu the radio headset.
EMMI You just… turn this. It creates feedback. Loud.
Ailu nods.
AILU Thank you.
Emmi hugs him tightly.
Ailu smiles.
AILU (CONT’D) Go. Bring back the sun.
INT. BUNKER – MAIN HALL – MOMENTS BEFORE DEPARTURE
Ailu sits alone in the dark.
He begins a slow yoik — deep, resonant.
The building seems to vibrate.
Outside — a faint answering SCREECH.
Ailu lifts the radio… and turns the dial.
The bunker shakes with SCREECHING FEEDBACK.
The horde hears.
And comes.
EXT. BUNKER – ESCAPE – SAME TIME
Ella cracks the door.
The whiteout hides everything.
ELLA Now. Move.
They slip into the storm.
Behind them, dozens — maybe hundreds — of vampires sprint toward the bunker.
Ailu keeps singing.
Fade out.
ACT III – FULL EXPANSION (PART 1)
EXT. ARCTIC FOREST – NIGHT (WHITEOUT)
The survivors push through the storm, lanterns hidden beneath coats. Visibility: nearly zero.
Ella leads, hand raised against the wind.
ELLA (shouting over storm) Stay close! Single file!
Behind her: — Janne — Mari — Emmi — Sakari — and a handful of trembling survivors.
A distant ROAR of wind masks another sound — faint clicking.
Mari flinches.
MARI They’re behind us…
Ella shakes her head.
ELLA No. They’re going toward the bunker.
Emmi glances back, horrified.
EMMI Ailu…
Janne puts a hand on her shoulder.
JANNE He knew.
EXT. FROZEN RAVINE – CONTINUOUS
The storm suddenly dies.
Too suddenly.
The group steps to the edge of a narrow ravine.
A massive SHAPE lies in the snow below — a mutilated reindeer carcass, torn open.
Steam rises from it.
Sakari kneels.
SAKARI This was… maybe minutes ago.
Ella’s breath clouds the air.
ELLA We keep moving.
A faint SKITTERING echoes beneath the ice.
Emmi stiffens.
EMMI Is that… under us?
Cracks spiderweb across the ravine ice.
Ella motions the group back — too late.
A PALE HAND bursts through.
Screaming. Survivors stumble back.
A gaunt vampire DRAGS ITSELF UP through the ice, limbs bent at impossible angles.
Janne fires a flare.
The creature SHRIEKS as its skin ignites.
It falls back into the dark below.
The survivors don’t wait.
They run.
EXT. FOREST SLOPE – NIGHT
The storm resumes violently.
Ella checks her map by dim lantern.
ELLA Half a kilometer to the river.
Sakari’s face is pale.
SAKARI Half a kilometer might as well be fifty.
Janne moves beside Ella.
JANNE They’re not following.
Ella nods grimly.
ELLA Because they think they already have us trapped.
EXT. HYDROELECTRIC STATION – NIGHT
The storm clears completely as the group approaches the old concrete structure.
Lights long dead. Windows frosted.
The river below: frozen solid.
Ella surveys it.
ELLA This is it.
Mari grips her rifle.
MARI Looks haunted.
JANNE Everything is haunted tonight.
They enter.
INT. HYDRO STATION – CONTROL FLOOR – NIGHT
Dust and ice coat everything.
Emmi rushes to the CONTROL PANEL.
EMMI If auxiliary power still works, I can jump the turbine relay.
Sakari searches cabinets.
Janne climbs rusted stairs toward valve controls.
Ella watches the dark windows.
The silence is oppressive.
Mari approaches quietly.
MARI Do you think Ailu is…
Ella doesn’t answer.
INT. HYDRO STATION – AUXILIARY ROOM – MINUTES LATER
Emmi sparks two ancient cables together.
A loud POP — then the room glows dim GOLD.
EMMI Yes… yes! Power is live!
Machinery GROANS awake.
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM — turbines cycling.
Janne yells from upstairs:
JANNE Valves are frozen shut!
Ella darts to him.
INT. HYDRO STATION – VALVE LEVEL – CONTINUOUS
Janne hacks at massive ice-coated valves with a crowbar.
JANNE If we can’t overpressure the river, none of this works!
Ella grabs the crowbar.
Together they swing.
Metal CREAKS.
CRACK!
The valve wheel turns — ice splintering.
Janne and Ella exchange a breathless look.
INT. CONTROL FLOOR – SAME TIME
Emmi watches pressure rise on gauges.
EMMI It’s working… it’s working!
Mari hears something.
A faint click-click-click…
Coming from the vents.
MARI They’re here.
Emmi looks up sharply.
EMMI Already?
The clicking grows louder.
Closer.
Coming from inside the walls.
INT. HYDRO STATION – VALVE LEVEL – CONTINUOUS
Ella and Janne freeze as clicking echoes from the stairwell.
JANNE They’re not supposed to find us this fast.
Ella readies her pistol.
ELLA We finish the job.
The stairwell suddenly GOES DARK.
A pale face appears in the shadows — eyes gleaming.
Ella fires.
The creature drops.
More clicking responds.
Janne grabs her hand.
JANNE We have to buy them time.
INT. CONTROL FLOOR – CONTINUOUS
Screams echo through vents.
Sakari backs toward Emmi.
SAKARI How close is it?
EMMI Pressure at seventy percent! We need ninety!
Sudden SHATTERING — a vampire drops from the ceiling panels.
Mari tackles Emmi aside.
Sakari swings a broken pipe — hitting the vampire’s jaw.
It hisses and lunges.
Mari fires — point blank.
The creature collapses.
Emmi returns to controls, hands shaking.
EMMI Almost there…
INT. VALVE LEVEL – SAME TIME
Janne fights another creature, smashing it against the valve housing.
Ella fires at one climbing the pipes.
Janne shouts:
JANNE Ella — GET OUT!
ELLA Not without you!
A massive SHUDDER shakes the whole station.
Pressure is near maximum.
Ella sees the staircase — dozens of pale bodies climbing.
She looks at Janne, eyes filled with fear.
ELLA We run! Now!
ACT III – FULL EXPANSION (PART 2)
INT. HYDRO STATION – CONTROL FLOOR – CONTINUOUS
Alarms BLARE. Gauges tremble in the red. Emmi slams buttons to stabilize pressure.
EMMI Ninety percent! It’s almost there!
Mari fires another shot at a vampire charging from the side hallway.
MARI How much longer is ‘almost’?!
EMMI Thirty seconds!
A pale hand SMASHES through a vent behind her.
Mari grabs Emmi and yanks her clear as claws rake across the controls.
Sparks fly. A gauge SHATTERS.
INT. HYDRO STATION – VALVE LEVEL – SAME TIME
Ella and Janne sprint down the metal walkway, chased by a half-dozen creatures.
Janne turns, firing a flare — blinding light fills the corridor.
The creatures SHRIEK, recoiling.
JANNE (urgent) Ella — go!
ELLA Not without you—
A massive CRASH above cuts her off.
The ceiling buckles.
More vampires POUR through the ruptured grating.
Janne grabs Ella’s arm, dragging her.
JANNE We finish this or we die for nothing!
INT. CONTROL FLOOR – CONTINUOUS
Emmi slams a final breaker.
The primary PRESSURE ALARM wails.
EMMI (astonished) It's gonna blow! Move!!
Mari nods, wide-eyed.
They flee.
INT. HYDRO STATION – SERVICE TUNNEL – CONTINUOUS
Ella and Janne descend a ladder into the narrow, ice-coated tunnel.
Sakari, Mari, and Emmi sprint toward them.
SAKARI They’re coming behind us—!
A vampire lunges from the shadows.
Sakari shoves Emmi forward — and is taken down.
Screams.
Ella reaches for him—
SAKARI Go!
He’s dragged into darkness.
Ella’s jaw clenches as she forces herself to move.
EXT. FROZEN RIVER – NIGHT
They burst out onto the wide frozen river.
Silence.
For one haunting second, the world is still.
Then—
CRRRRRAAAAAAACK—
A deep rumble beneath the ice.
MARI It’s starting!
As they run, the ice SPLINTERS behind them.
EXT. FROZEN RIVER – MIDWAY
Janne stops.
Ella whirls.
ELLA Janne! Move!!
Janne looks at the tree line.
More creatures swarm out — dozens.
He lifts his remaining flare.
JANNE If I run with you… they catch us all.
Ella’s eyes widen.
ELLA Don’t you dare—
JANNE (smiles sadly) I never stopped loving you.
Before Ella can reach him—
He FIRES the flare into the air.
The light blossoms — vampires SHRIEK.
Janne runs TOWARD them, yelling, drawing the entire swarm.
ELLA JANNE!!
EXT. FROZEN RIVER – JANNE’S LAST STAND
Janne sprints across weakening ice.
He turns once — one last look at Ella.
The creatures close around him.
The ice beneath them GLOWS as pressure surges.
Janne whispers:
JANNE Tell her I tried.
BOOOOOOM!!!!
The river ERUPTS.
A geyser of steam and jagged ice shreds the swarm.
Janne disappears in the blast.
Ella screams—
ELLA JANNE!!!
EXT. RIVERBANK – CONTINUOUS
The shockwave THUNDERS across the river.
Ella, Mari, and Emmi DIVE behind a snowbank.
Chunks of smoking ice rain down.
The geyser slowly settles…
Leaving only a crater and drifting steam.
Silence.
Ella pushes herself up, trembling.
EMMI (whispering) Are they… gone?
Ella stares at the devastation.
ELLA Most of them.
She scans the far treeline.
A lone, burned vampire LIMPS into the woods.
Mari sees it.
MARI One got away.
Ella nods grimly.
ELLA Let it run.
They turn away.
EXT. RIDGE ABOVE INARI – EARLY DAWN
After a long climb, they reach the ridge.
Inari lies silent below — ruined but peaceful.
A faint golden glow warms the horizon.
Emmi gasps softly.
EMMI Is that…?
Mari nods.
MARI The sun.
The first sliver of sunlight in a month rises.
Ella watches it, tears streaming.
Then she turns north — toward the endless wilderness.
ELLA (V.O.) We survived the long night.
A beat.
ELLA (V.O.) (CONT'D) But the dark remembers.
FADE OUT.
THE END
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