Hannah's Demons
Hannah learns that running from her demons only makes things worse…
You can't run away from your problems. This is something that Hannah learns quite literally in Hannah's Demons, a disturbing thriller by talented screenwriter Warren Duncan.
Hannah is, by all definitions, a final girl in the vein of Jennifer Love Hewitt in I Know What You Did Last Summer or Sigourney Weaver in Alien. The difference is, we don't know what horror Hannah has escaped from. We meet her alone in the woods in the middle of the night, torn clothes, ragged breathing and scared to death. Someone very persistent is chasing her and she can't escape, no matter how fast or how far she runs.
That's when she sees a cabin. Maybe someone is home. Maybe they will help her! Hannah pounds on the door and... nothing. With no other option, Hannah smashes a window and dives inside.
She takes quick inventory of her surroundings and arms herself with a kitchen knife. As her attacker enters the house, Hannah takes cover under the kitchen table. Hoping, praying, that her stalker doesn't find her. Is she safe?
Nope.
Her pursuer begins searching the house, leaving no stone left unturned. He calls her name, "Hannah, you need to come home..."
She shakily holds the kitchen knife, waiting for the inevitable and...
What, did you think I was going to spoil it? Go read the script! Just know that not everything is what it seems in this story and that the script ends with a mind-bending twist guaranteed to keep you up at night.
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