A serial rapist whose victims mysteriously die from seizures could have strange ties to a play.  Rumours about black magic and the rapist’s twisted modus operandi intensify.  An evil, supernatural presence knows more than anyone earthly about the perpetrator – and about some of the people pursuing him.

SYNOPSIS:

Bozho

A supernatural crime-horror feature script, written by Jackie Bergson

An investigative journalist has employed a P.I. on stakeout at the home of a successful couple: a clairvoyant and her husband, a leading man whose theatrical role, Bozho is also the name of the play he has starred in for seven years. Their investigation is connected to stories about a serial rapist whose victims mysteriously die from seizures. Strange secrets about black magic and the rapist’s twisted modus operandi are attracting curiosity and fervour amongst investigators and the press. Some speculate that the perpetrator has an eerie similarity to the fictional character, Bozho.

The play’s huge success and plaudits are in danger of being tainted both by outside rumours and by inexplicable problems within the theatre where it is staged. The leading actor who plays Bozho begins to suffer from stage-fright for the first time in years and a long-serving night porter disappears in alarming circumstances.

The play’s sceptical director thinks that unsettling events can be rationally explained. His less sceptical business manager believes that something not of this world is stalking the theatre. She consequently enlists the help of a psychic investigator to find out what is causing manifest disturbances backstage.

Two psychic investigators summon the supernatural presence which appears to have been haunting the theatre hosting the play Bozho. The results of their enquiry are both tangible and terrifying. Meanwhile, people who have some kind of relationship or association with the perpetrator but who have no awareness about who he is or might be are being stalked by nightmarish visions and dreams.

Pursuits by both journalistic and psychic investigators mean to uncover the identity and modus operandi of the perverse, sadistic psychopath who is apparently raping fragile young men to death. With help from one of his victim’s friends, they develop a high risk plan, to stop the perpetrator before he can take his next victim.

There are clues before the final scenes which suggest that an unreliable narrator is involved somewhere along the line. Bozho (the screenplay) shows rather than tells who that is and there is nothing obvious about this revelation, before it hits. In parallel with this theme, only two people ever see the supernatural presence when it chooses to appear in full, human form. The reasons for this are only revealed when it fulfils the deep horror of its purpose. Crime thriller themes in Bozho underpin the plot’s development: to begin with, investigators all sense that they are onto something that will lead them to the perpetrator. Meanwhile, he is taking more victims.

Impacts which align true emotions, motives and revelations within the plot necessitate the inclusion of three (non-graphic) rape scenes. But the subtext which advances the evil, supernatural presence in the screenplay is that it always knows more than anyone earthly about the perpetrator – maybe also about some of the people pursuing him.