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THE STRANGER UPSTAIRS

THE STRANGER UPSTAIRS
By Stephen Thompson

GENRE: Thriller
LOGLINE:

An elderly woman fears for her life when she hears a stranger break into her house. 

SYNOPSIS:

Arnell Finch is an elderly woman that has just recovered from a broken hip.

Living alone, she can no longer climb the stairs of her once beautiful Queen Anne.

A bedroom has been set up for her in the living room on the 1st floor.

Arnell has no family left alive, so a Home Health Nurse comes by every afternoon to check in on her.

Suddenly, one night during a winter storm, Arnell believes that a stranger has broken into one of the rooms upstairs. A broken window and a wet floor are all that is found by police.

Night after night Arnell thinks she hears a mad man roaming the rooms upstairs. Fearing she is going crazy; she self medicates with pain killers to help get her through the night.

Then the nurse gets snowed in with Arnell and hears the noises for herself, she goes upstairs to investigate but never comes back down.

Arnell Finch must use all of her strength to stay alive.

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William Gunn

Hitchcock would love this!!!! I'd love to read the screenplay.

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Stephen Thompson

Tim, My screenplay has a couple of subplots.

Stephen Thompson

Thanks Lyter

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