the unwanted : second post

Here's a quick synopsis of "The Unwanted" and the franchise it will spawn. These are some of the first notes Dark had, but if you like it check back later on this week because I believe he will post more in-depth details and possibly the opening scene.

The two main characters will be a hardened, grizzled, born-again cop and a devout woman who runs a Bible shop but has a deep, dark secret. He's a widower, her husband left her. They meet, start to fall in love (romantic not sexual), all while he is investigating a rash of prostitute murders. At one point he connects the dots - all these prostitutes have had abortions! Then they widen the net of the investigation, and realize that there are other unexplained murders that involve women who have had abortions. They start to see the ghosts. The ghosts come for the lead actress. We find out that she herself had had an abortion when she was young, and her guilt is what lead to her devout worship. The movie ends with her offering herself up as a sacrifice to the unwanted. She dies, but in her death her baby is reborn - and the cop takes care of it. Her symbolic act brings an end to the reign of the unwanted.

At first they seem like bad guys - the unwanted - but you realize that these women all get what's coming to them - from the completely wrong and fucked up perspective of hardline anti-abortionevangelical fundamentalists, of course. It'll be a giant fetus-looking thing composed of dozens of smaller fetus ghosts. They come for the mothers, speak to them in a creepy baby voice, and then engulf and suffocate them. Sequels will happen, with the unwanted taking something of the hero position - sort of like how Godzilla becomes the hero in the sequels instead of the monster.

If we do this right, we will be repulsed at ourselves for writing something like this.