Ritual Story

This is the only scripted part of our trailer and is the story concerning a past ritual that one of the main characters tells the others. The story talks about a ritual that happened in the woods many years ago where someone was killed under the tree, later one of the characters is dared to put blood on the tree which is when everything changes.

H - Did you hear about the satanic rituals in these woods?

S - No

H – Apparently it happened decades ago. In the local village; there was a young lady who seemed to be different to the others, she was classed as an outsider and she was never made welcome by anyone. It was around that time that the young girls of the village began to disappear; at first it was one per year but then it became more frequent, till everyone was too scared to let their children out.

They one night they found one of the corpses of a child lying down underneath an old tree with her blood dripping down into the very roots of the plant; they say that it was too gruesome that even the priest was sickened by what he saw.

They later accused her of being a witch; and hanged her for her crimes in the very same tree that the young girl was found under; but something went wrong and instead of being hanged they killed in the same fashion as the girl, this caused her to bleed out into the soil surrounding the trunk, and they say that because of this, the tree became her immortal tomb. But they did not know that they were totally wrong about their accusations; as when they searched her house they found evidence of satanic rituals and pentagrams drawn into the very fabric of the building. The creature they had killed was not of this world; and it became enraged because of its own death. Since then it has been said that if innocent blood ever touches the trunk that the beast will be released from its prison and will roam this world again…

C - Which tree is it?

H - They say it’s that one over there …

C – I don’t believe it; you’re just talking nonsense witches don’t exist and neither do demons

H – Why don’t you do it then … release “the beast” if you are so sure that there is no such thing?

S – Come on Lizzie as you said there is no such thing

H – OK then as you say that there is no such thing; I dare you to put some of your blood onto the trunk

C – Fine I’ll do it, but nothing is going to happen …

(Cuts fingers and gets some blood on the tree trunk)