Sattasvaara Slasher - a script idea and a short screenplay
WORKING TITLE: Sattasvaara Slasher GENRE: Classic summer-camp slasher in the vein of Friday the 13th SETTING: A remote forest near Sodankylä Camp location: Sattasvaara Wilderness Camp The dialogue is in English , sprinkled with Finnish curse words and mixed Scandinavian accents. LOGLINE A group of UK, Finnish, Swedish, and Estonian friends—meeting in person for the first time after years in an online movie community—travel to the remote forests of Sattasvaara for a weekend camping trip. But the local legend of the “Sattasvaara Slasher” turns out to be horrifyingly true when an uninvited, hockey-masked killer begins stalking them one by one. THE LEGEND Told early in the movie by a local shopkeeper from Sodankylä village : “Up there in Sattasvaara… a boy drowned in the bog after campers bullied him. They say he grew up twisted, hiding in the forest, wearing a mask to hide his rotten face. Hullu perkele… If you hear branches snapping but no wind… run.” They call ...