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INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT
Moonlight softly enters the bedroom, a soft blue light covers the room. Sara wakes up and feels a cold shiver. She grabs
her teddy bear, gets up and leaves her room.
INT. HALLWAY – NIGHT
Sara walks down to her parents room, and slowly opens the door.
INT. PARENTS BEDROOM – NIGHT
Sara slowly peeks into her parents room.
SARA
Mom?
Sara enter the room and finds an empty bed. A sense of dread comes over her as she almost starts to cry.
INT. HALLWAY – NIGHT
Sara very cautiously looks out of her parents bedroom door.
She looks down the long empty hallway. Stepping into the hallway, she looks over the banister.
SARA
Mom, Dad?
A growling noise at the end of the hall grabs her attention.
A dark figure stands at the end of the hallway. Sara runs down the large staircase. Reaching the bottom, she looks up, no dark figure. A small sense of relief calms her down, she decides to see if her parents are in the kitchen. Turning around she bumps into the Dark Figure. She slowly looks up and Screams.
INT. BEDROOM
Sara from a dead sleep, sits up and screams.
CREATIVITY IS STORYTELLING
They say a picture is worth a thousand words—but a song? A song lives in your soul. It captures emotion, crystallizes a moment in time, and sometimes even embodies a person.
I’ve fallen in love with storytelling—especially the kind that comes alive through film. What draws me to it is how film demands clarity. You have to break a story into vivid, visual beats, stitching them together to form something greater than the sum of its parts.
They also say, “Write what you know.” So here’s what I knew: I was staying with a friend while traveling, and he vented about how his youngest kept climbing into bed with him and his wife every night. He was running on empty.
So I grabbed my suitcase and pulled the kid aside. “Come with me,” I said. We walked to his room. I made him wait in the hallway, then stepped inside and loudly told the “monster” hiding under the bed to get in my suitcase—I was taking it on a trip.
The kid believed me. That night, he stayed in his own bed for the first time.
That moment stuck with me. It was playful, but it got me thinking: What if there really was a monster? And what if I actually took it home with me in that suitcase?
That was the spark.
To bring the idea to life, I called on some talented friends: Ryan Featherstun, an amazing Director of Photography; David Buchert, a gifted Producer and Filmmaker; and James “Mez” Banks, who brought the monster to life. We cast incredible Nashville actors—Jonathan Everett, Jena Grissom, Netty Leach, and Jared Carter. My partner at Wayfarer Records scored the short. And we shot it all over one long, unforgettable night. (Thanks for your patience, Pam. 😉)
