Storyline
All is well as Denise celebrates her 28th birthday with her fiancée and friends. Denise experiences extreme good fortune when she wins the lottery. Greed, lust and jealousy in her friends leads to Denise’s lottery and her life being stolen from her. Denise survives. Her friends know if she ever recovers enough to speak, they will all go to jail. The rubber band of injustice is stretched further and further as her once friends now try to kill Denise and destroy her will to live. The audience is baying for blood. Enter the Devil who offers Denise a deal. A ticking time bomb to kill the six people who attended her birthday party in six nights, in exchange for her life back. In a race against time, the story transforms into a horror thriller. Denise exacts revenge symbolic of each betrayal. But a deal with the Devil is never just about revenge, the Kill Bill story morphs into Rosemary’s Baby.
The Approach
The film targets an untapped audience: chick-flick horror fans. A mother’s greatest fear isn’t death, it’s failing to protect her child.
Denise survives as a mute quadriplegic, knowing her friends have stolen her life. Unable to defend herself or her daughter, she is trapped in a living nightmare. This is slow-burn horror, built on tension and injustice rather than gore, as her betrayers grow desperate for her to give up and die.
At her lowest point, Denise prays, and the Devil answers. He offers a deal: kill the six people who ruined her life in six nights, and she can have it back. Denise accepts.
As she murders the first five, extracting their confessions, Denise discovers the final target is innocent. But a deal with the Devil must be completed.
Seven years later, Denise learns the true cost of her bargain: she has given birth to the Devil’s child.
Key Characters
Denise Russo
Denise Russo (27–28) is a driven, confident and attractive TV newscaster with a major arc from trusting optimist to brutal killer.
Denise is trusting and idealistic, but over the film becomes a calculating murderer responsible for six deaths. She is a quadriplegic and mute for roughly a third of the story, requiring strong nonverbal performance and nuanced facial expression.
The role calls for an athletic yet very feminine presence, with scenes involving nudity, rape and a bedroom intimacy sequence. An Australian accent is required and Australian actors are preferred for this lead role.
The Devil
The Devil wears a fedora: a super-cool, unflappable presence modeled on Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II. He is indestructible, fearless, cool, calculating, and precise, around 5’9”, charming yet cold.
This character should evoke Al Pacino’s restrained intensity from Godfather Part II, serving as a chilling, controlled force rather than an overtly theatrical villain. Estimated screen time is 20 minutes in a 120‑minute feature.
Inspector Jones
Inspector Jones is a seemingly ideal Aussie detective: straight-arrow, by-the-book, and determined to see justice done, yet secretly in the Devil’s service. A key supporting role with a strong arc, he helps Denise by securing her perfect alibi, insisting on tests just before she regains her life.
He is charming, Australian, about 5’10”, stocky, a “man’s man,” and a well-liked police officer, in the vein of Rodger Corser in Underbelly. Approximate screen time is 20 minutes in a 120‑minute feature.
Carine Sanderson
Carine is a glamorous, well-presented model type who works as an admin assistant and receptionist at a legal firm but lives for the party lifestyle. Outwardly confident yet entitled and spoilt, she hides a drug habit, gravitates to bad boys, and uses her looks to win favours and attention.
Childish, jealous, and manipulative rather than truly evil, she once idolised Denise as the friend she turned to after every heartbreak, until Denise “stole” her perfect guy and then won the lottery. The role is in the vein of Samara Weaving, with around 20 minutes of screen time in a 120‑minute feature.
Matt Chambers
Matt, 32, is a tall, well-built former AFL player: good‑looking, charming, movie‑star type and a natural ladies’ man. He is dragged into the crime because he has slept with both Carine and Samantha, who is married to his best friend Simon and is pregnant with Matt’s baby.
Matt is not especially devious or intellectual; he is more impulsive than calculating. The role is in the vein of Adam Demos, with approximately 20 minutes of screen time in a 120‑minute feature.
Denise Russo
Edith Russo (54) is a religious, naive but quietly resolute grandmother who becomes Denise and Siobhan’s caregiver after Denise is left a mute quadriplegic.
She is kind, steady, and devoted, stepping up to hold the family together in the crisis.
The role sits in the emotional space of Rachel Griffiths or Zoe Naylor, with around 20 minutes of screen time in a 120‑minute feature.
Showcross
The first feature film is a melting pot of ‘I Spit on your Grave’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ with elements of ‘The Omen’.
There are some elements of a brutal rape revenge which extends further to the perpetrators who were her fiancée and her best friend. Denise does a deal with the Devil.
A chance to take her life back at the cost of those who stole it from her.
Franchise Potential
The universe introduced in this film is ripe for expansion, with multiple story arcs, spin-offs, and transmedia opportunities. Rich lore and compelling characters lend themselves to future installments, establishing the groundwork for a long-lasting franchise.
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