THE BORROWED FACE A FEATURE SCREENPLAY + PRODUCTION BIBLE - Historical crime horror / procedural noir - Ed Gein Fictional Story
THE BORROWED FACE | Screenplay & Production Bible THE BORROWED FACE A FEATURE SCREENPLAY + PRODUCTION BIBLE Historical crime horror / procedural noir Original fictional screenplay inspired by the cultural shadow of the Ed Gein case Draft: July 2026 THE BORROWED FACE | Screenplay & Production Bible Creative North Star A man steals bodies to assemble the mother he cannot mourn. Two detectives discover that the most dangerous mask in town is the one worn by respectable silence. Set in fictional Black River County, Wisconsin, in the winter of 1957, the film borrows the historical anxiety surrounding Ed Gein but invents its characters, victims, investigation, chronology, and ending. It is not a biographical account. The horror comes from grief curdled into possession, a town’s appetite for spectacle, and the cost of looking directly at what everyone prefers to make into folklore. Package Contents Feature screenplay: complete three-act story with a closed ending. Production...