Introducing THE LONELY – a WriteMovies Award Winner! A modern horror about a curse that spreads inside a women’s prison.
THE LONELY is a modern horror about a curse that spreads inside a women’s prison.
A chilling blend of prison tension and supernatural dread. It’s a claustrophobic, intelligent horror featuring nuanced female leads fighting to survive both their trauma and their surroundings.
The Lonely taps into anxieties about contagion, isolation, and human connection. Perfect themes for a post-pandemic, terminally online world.
In a marketplace that demands intelligent horror, this film will appeal to fans of It Follows (2014), Hereditary (2018), and Heretic (2024), whilst offering an attractive budget-to-profit ratio with its confined setting and emphasis on psychological horror over effects.
About the writer – Girard Dorney:
Girard Dorney is a Sydney-based writer and editor with experience in senior editorial and commercial roles, journalism, and script consultancy.
Girard won the WriteMovies Horror Award 2024, was a finalist in the LA-based Screenplay Festival 2024 and a quarter-finalist in the 2024 Screamfest Screenplay Horror film festival.
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