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COUGARS

COUGARS
By Cody MacGrath

GENRE: Horror
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A young introverted college student is invited to stay with eight beautiful women, only to discover their sinister motives.

SYNOPSIS:

Jake Edwards is a 22-year-old college student and a mature introvert who aspires to be an artist. He is put under pressure by everyone around him over his shy personality, not getting a job, and his desire to move out of his parents’ house. His best friend is Brody Clarke who is trying to help Jake get out there. Jake tries to ask a girl out, only to be humiliated by her and her friends. After the humiliation, Jake and Brody then go to their Religious Studies course where they learn about a succubus, a woman sent from Hell to suck the life out of a man through sexual intercourse.

After class, Jake and Brody kick off their Reading Week at a bar where Brody gets Jake to offer a girl a drink, only for her boyfriend to threaten Jake and lead to a bar brawl between Jake, Brody, and the jealous psychotic boyfriend. Jake storms out of the bar, but Brody catches up to him, which only leads to a heated argument and Jake walks away. Later that night, Jake spots a raven-haired woman named Lacey attacked by a mugger and tries to help her. The mugger beats down Jake, but gets knocked out by Lacey with a steel pipe.

Lacey carries the unconscious Jake to her suburban house and is treated by her and her six equally attractive friends. They are Nancy who is brunette, Sophie who is blonde, Autumn who has red or auburn hair, Savannah who is African-American, Camilla who is Latina, and Mei Mei who is Asian. Their leader is an exotic British-Persian woman named Angela, who is out of town and will meet Jake the next day. Jake and Lacey have sex in her room, but while sleeping, a hand made up of green herpes appears from under Lacey’s sheet and grabs onto Jake’s leg. He wakes up and thinks it was all just a bad dream. The next day, Angela returns home to meet Jake. To celebrate her return, the ladies give Jake the night of his life.

Despite the fun he’s been having, Jake starts to feel sick, but the ladies brush it off as having too many drinks. However, he starts to feel even sicker and soon discovers small herpes on the left side of his face and lesions on his right arm. Jake realizes that the ladies don’t plan on getting him help. He struggles to walk, feels dizzy, has a coughing fit, and slowly falls to the ground. Brody starts to worry about Jake and after watching a strange news report at a bar, he meets a crazy hunter named Alfonso Cobb who says he is hunting for cougars. Worried that Jake is in trouble, Brody asks for help. Jake is in the basement strapped to a chair and apparently cured of his diseases because of a potion. The ladies are enchantresses who’ve been around since the 16th century and lived so long with a cost. They explain how they turn into actual cougars, how they occasionally have herpe hands emerging from them, and that seducing and killing young men like Jake keeps them alive and human.

Brody, Alfonso, and Alfonso’s nephew Charlie wander the forest near the suburban neighborhood and enter the house to kill the cougars with rifles and pistol handguns filled with silver bullets as well as silver daggers. However, the rescue mission leads to the casualties of Alfonso and Charlie and for Brody to disappear in a fight with one of the cougars, leaving Jake to fend for himself. After taking out more of the cougars with the silver daggers and bullets, he encounters a fully-transformed Angela and kills her. Outside of the house, the injured Jake is comforted by Lacey, trying to help him. She acts more innocently and nearly convinces him until he sees her cougar tail and tries to bite down his neck. Jake topples Lacey and hesitates to finish her. Brody arrives and Jake kills Lacey. The ordeal is finally over.

COUGARS

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Dustin Quinteros

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Dustin Quinteros

All the elements are there, but the order could be tweaked and simplified. I'm having a similar problem with my short... "Following an invite to stay with eight beautiful women a young college student becomes increasingly suspicious of their motives, as it all sounds too good to be true." ???

John Theroux

8 women? You're right - too good to be true.

B A Mason

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Cody MacGrath

Hey, Mark. The poster was just made in good fun. It's a fan-made poster. Not something to take seriously.

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